Each time I
sit down to write more of Chris’ book, I find myself captivated by her
character. She was a strong presence throughout the entire L&J series as
her friendship with Elle is unbreakable. As I get the opportunity to craft a
story just about her and her background, I find myself so excited to not only
be back in the MM world, but to write it through Chris’ eyes.
She is the
queen of secrets, so I can promise you that you will not see what I’ve got
coming at you. Her past is a like a rubber band ball where each band is a piece
of her past that has shaped her into the woman she is today. Little by little
you learn her secrets and discover why she keeps most people (even Elle at
times) at arm’s length. She’s fucking fascinating!!
Things are
being pieced together with the MC, but this time we are seeing it though Link’s
POV which is also exciting to write. He is a delectable man who makes me cream
my pants just writing about him. Then I stop and realize that he is a piece of
my imagination and think I just might be masturbatory writing. (Is that a
phrase?)
Anyhoo, I
am so excited to share this with ya’ll, but it will be late summer probably before
its ready. I might post some excerpts here on my blog, so keep an eye out.
This is my official what the fuck is up with the shitty music videos post.
Example one: Beyoncé’s Drunk In Love. Great
song. Makes you wanna dance and then fuck. The lyrics are explicit and erotic.
Jay Z rhymes about doing it against the wall and being in such a frenzy to be
inside her that he doesn't have time to take her panties off and instead merely
slips them to the side. She compares riding him to riding the waves on a
surfboard. Specifically "grindin' on that wood, grindin grindin' on that
wood, I'm swervin' on that, swervin' swervin'
on that big body, deserving all of this, surfin' all of this good good."
When she sang deserving all of this and I was dancing in my living room, my hands
were motioning to my body as I assumed she would be doing with hers. It might
have been sexy... what I did in my living room… or not, but that's what I
expected to see in the video. And, maybe I expected her and Jay Z get a little
freaky. At the very least, I expected to see someone getting freaky, even if it was actors.
The song is about being drunk at the club
with the man you love and having the time of your life, then heading home to
have awesome sex that's so off the chain you're willing to fuck up your million
dollar Warhol print. (Probably one that Jay Z and Beyoncé have in their foyer
for real.)
Doesn't that sound hot??? And like the
makings for a great video??
I thought so too, but nope. The video
sucks.
It's Beyoncé dancing on the beach (better
than my living room dancing, but just randomly dancing nonetheless), then Jay Z
comes on the sand to wrap while holding a snifter of liquor. Her and ole boy
barely touch.
So not hot. Not erotic or explicit.
Just, blah.
Next up—How Many Drinks by Miguel.
Let me start by saying that I looooove
Miguel. His songs make me want to dance, grind, and find someone to get warm
and comfy with.
How Many Drinks, like Drunk In Love, has
hot lyrics that basically ask how many
drinks do you need before you'll go home with me so I can do dirty, dirty
things to you?
Uh, one. If he sang that song to me while
we got it on I could be ready after a sip of water. So I'm thinking it's going
to be a hot video with him (or an actor) pursuing a woman in the club. Maybe
there would be some dirty dancing and flirty chats before they roll out in the
limo to his pad that where they have sweaty, passionate sex—and he sings the
song the whole time.
ERRRRRR. Giant red X's from the Family
Feud.
It's him and a shotty band performing with
a few close ups of his face. You can't even see his face for most of it cuz
it's all shadowed out. There are some lame side dancers who look like they
should be in a Peter Gabriel video and give the saddest wannabe-lesbian
performance I've ever seen.
WTF.
Total. Let down.
So, on the search for a video that was made
with some thought put into it, that told a story along with the song, and that
visually as well as auditorally stimulated me I went to my main man who has yet
to do me wrong—Kendrick Lamar.
He apparently has a new song out that I
hadn't heard cuz it came up first on YouTube. It's unreleased as far as I know
on LP, but the song, simply titled I,
tells one hell of a story. It's not erotic or dirty, but a story of the ghetto
trying to tear you down and rising above it to love yourself. He rhymes about
the city (or society) making promises that it never follows through on so he
makes the promise to love himself—the one promise he knows can come to fruition
because he himself, holds the reins to its success.
Heavy shit right. Yep, and the video rocks.
It's a tour of Compton, his hometown and a place where some sad, sad shit
happens. He takes you around the hood, all the while leading and being followed
by a crew of dancers. It follows the story of the song AND when you thought it
couldn't get any better, it does.
Mr. Big is in it! He got Ron Isley to do a
little ditty on the video. Hello, that's cool as fuck.
I realize the production cost of a video is
high and I'm not asking for every artist to recreate the Thriller video, but I
searched some more of Lamar's videos and they all tell a story visually while
he raps the plot to you. None of them were shitty. So the rest of ya'll artists
need to man the fuck up, maybe get with Dre, and make a video I want to
watch—especially the dirty songs! Hello! We're in the era of 50 Shades. Show me
some skin!
