This past weekend I had to take two train trips in just over 12 hours. 3 hours there and 3 hours back. On top of that when I got there I had to take a 45 min bus trip there and back. Basically I was travelling for over 7 hours. It wasn’t all bad though because I had my iRiver H10 (better than the iPod, sexier than the Zen). I have ten playlists on the H10 which I change regularly. I normally go through each one at least once … yes I am a music surfer. But not this time. For over 7 hours I listened to the same album over and over again and it turned a mediocre trip into a good one, especially when I had to leave at 9am.
The album was Babyface’s Grown & Sexy. I do not understand why people are sleeping and hating on this album. (Especially when the most popular alternative seems to be silly lyrics shouted by a one Mr. Cent.) Grown & Sexy is brilliant. It is classic Babyface. If you do not like Babyface you might as well declare a fatwa right now. If you do, then get this.
But … there always is a but isn’t there. Halfway through the album I was nodding my head to the music but I still felt there was something missing. It was Babyface … but not Babyface as I know it … there was something missing. For a while I could not place what it was that was missing from this album. Then it hit me. Babyface had not apologised yet. No one NO ONE does apologies like Babyface. The man must mess up constantly because he turned the apology into an art. Back in the day we used to mess up just so we could send our girl a Babyface track. Remember:
So i’m
Never keeping secrets
And I’m never telling lies
I wanna make it up to you
But all is not lost because on track 7 Babyface is back on apology A form. The song is even called, “Sorry For The Stupid Things”. (Does exactly what it says on the tin.) Check the lyrics
Sometimes a man
Just don’t be a man
It’s not an excuse
It’s just how it is
Sometimes the wrong
Don’t know that they’re wrong
Sometimes the strong
Ain’t always so strong
Sometimes a girl
Is gon’ be a girl
She don’t wanna deal with all the drama in your world
God knows I don’t mean to give it to you
So girl I’m sorry for the stupid things I wish I didn’t do but I do
Oh so sorry, oh no, oh so sorry
It’s our fault, we are whack, we wish we more like you, you are prefect, we messed up. You are superior!
Prefect!
Babyface is king!
Pamoja Tuangamize Ukimwi
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March 21, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Afro
lol, might as well issue a fatwa… It is a good CD, now i still penda the oldie ‘ Rock bottom’, kwanza where he throws the chair…heh dude can rearrange furniture!
March 21, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Guessaurus
LOL @ your 7hr train journey, and the bus - did you have to leave @9am? - dont answer that
You know what I am going to say next right? Right?I get the album or the iRiver gets it - get copying dude!
:D 
- or better still, I enlist Farmgal on a quest.. (know what I mean? *said in a proper cockney accent*)
March 21, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Adrian
hmmm, kinda missed that one. will make sure to get it asap.
March 22, 2006 at 7:41 am
Ms K
Ti hi hi I thought you were referring to yourself Re: Grown and Sexy Babyface.
Yes I know. I know. Really no need for you (or anyone else) to go there. LOL
That player looks really sexy. Nice. Pole about your long train rides.
Nicko is refusing to let me have my Grown & Sexy album. I’ll hunt him down and get it. By the way, “Sorry for the stupid things”, methinks it was written for the ex-missus. You should see the live video of that song.
And yes we are sexy. Oops perfect. LOL just wanted to use the word sexy again.
Ok, I’m gone!
March 22, 2006 at 10:22 am
kipepeo
oooh lush lyrics…i have got to get me a copy!!!
March 22, 2006 at 11:16 am
sassy
Mental, you got me this time. The album by babyface is just easy to listen to and damn !!!!! he says the right words to assure a sista that yeah - you have a jerk for a hubby/bf alright but it should not stop u from loving him.
Anyways i thought iPod was the ultimate?
I bet you enjoyed the 7hr train ride if you had the Grown and sexy album
March 22, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Mitzy
Too funny @ the apologies. I have always been a Babyface groupie, got scared when he started morphing from clean cut into the gangsta clique…
Gotta get the album asap! Thanks for the tip! You should have karaoked and podcast the lyrics with your Grown n’ Sexy voice…when’s the next p’cast?
March 22, 2006 at 3:45 pm
k.i.d.a.d.a
I love that album. I was listening to it late last year and Babyface just knows how to serenade a woman….damn, he just hits the right spots and………….mmmhh………anyway, moving on!
How ya doin’ anyway? Why the journey/trip?
March 22, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Ciiku
hmmm…. I need to look into this…… LOVE LOVE Babyface…….
Sad abt the divorce but such is life…….
Liking the player…. I do have a zen… u hated on it.. lol… j/k…..
March 22, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Stunuh
You go guy!
I have loved baby face 8as a musician!)since forecer! He;s music has evolved with every album he unleashes.Anyone who doesn’t like baby face should be hung by the cjobes until they’re snuffed out!
March 23, 2006 at 1:49 am
Keguro
I’m with Afro on this. Can’t stand babyface.
His lyrics are trite. His music embarassingly bad. His voice an insistent whiny pain.
Yeah, come get me.