Today is a tragic day for many reasons, but specifically for the music world. It is sad because of the loss of legendary R&B crooner Teddy Pendergrass.
As artists of Pendergrass' caliber age further and begin to pass off the scene, they are being replaced by artists, who seem to be completely unfamiliar with true emotion. The ardor of yesteryear has been replaced with the instantaneous. Instead of love being built and growing over time, and sex being a special and private act, we now fast-forward through getting to know one another and skip right to screwing.
Regrettably, classic love songs like "Love T.K.O.", "You and I", "Sweet Love" and "All This Love" are being replaced with the likes of "Invented Sex", "Number One (Sex)", "Love in This Club" and "Digital Girl". Not to say that the latter group of songs are not sonically pleasing or even extremely catchy and well written, but there one key element missing; The soulful, sweet and seductive crooning of days gone by. Singers are molesting our ears rather than singing and songwriters seem to be more focused on copulation, than the beauty of building love.
It pains me to think of the state of our music. What love songs will we be singing in the next 20 years? I can not imagine singing the songs that have been popular in the last 10 years, to express my love and admiration to a woman. The COMMON SENSE lies in this: Love is great! One could live without sex, but can you live about love? Love keeps everything in balance and is in fact, The Greatest Power to exist. Therefore, a migration Back To Love is necessary. Nothing would improve the art and life more, than returning to the fervor and lyrical content of artists like Marvin Gaye, Patti LaBelle, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross and too many others to name. Let's get back to the passion and romance of our musical predecessors, and abandon the wham-bam-thank you ma'am...
Love, Romance and Common Sense
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