I love music… I I truly do. I feel like everything I do should have music playing in the background. I used soca music to study while in undergrad and grad school to keep my energy up. I use RnB to relax before I go to sleep. At work I play soft rock, pop, top 40 stuff to keep me going throughout the day. And my drive to work each morning is an opportunity for me to sing as loudly along with some of my current favorite CDs (current Fav Anthony Hamilton’s Back to Love GETCHU SOME that is a great album!!!) to the chagrin of other motorist when I forget my windows are down.
When Whitney passed this month I thought about all the great music she was leaving us and as some of her greatest hits flooded radio and television stations I was reminded of home much her music moved me. If you follow me on twitter (@SometingSpecial) you might of seen this tweet: "Yo I could make a soundtrack to my love life using just Whitney Houston songs.." At the time Whitney's I want to Dance with somebody was playing. I remembered that feeling of wanting to have someone to call my own and thus a tweet was born. And it got retweeted by so many of my friends it got me thinking.. if I DID make a soundtrack... what would it look like? So here it is my Whitney Love Soundtrack.. May she Rest in PEACE!
*I Want to Dance with Somebody: First started thinking about having someone to call my booski. After being so wrapped up in my academics and my dancing I started longing for a partner in crime.
*If I Told You That: My first REAL boyfriend.. A friend of mine that I realized I had a bit of a crush on and since he felt the same we began dating and I experienced puppy love. Good times..
*I'm Every Woman: Okay so that relationship ended. I was bruised but not broken. And much more aware of how excessively awesome I was. Fresh in my sorority and applying for grad school I wasn't really thinking in relationship terms. But I was open to company at a movie or dinner. I did my thang thang.. I was killing it in school. killing it on the party scene. Dated around but never anything serious because I was too busy being every woman.
*You Give Good Love: I got hit by the mack truck called love when I start dating Mr. Ex. Dragged into that relationship kicking and screaming but was ultimately happy there.. blind but happy.
*I'll Always Love You: Mr. Ex and I break up and I am absolutely devastated. Devastated.. I went past bruised and lived in broken for a long time.
*Didn't We Almost Have it All: Mr. Ex and I get back together at his insistence. Though mildly reluctant I was much more nostalgic about our relationship and decided to go with it.
*All The Man That I Need: I thought we were going to really make it work this time. Things were better than they had ever been before. We were older and more mature.. Or so I thought.
*Its Not Right But its Okay: I finally chuck the deuces and let go of that relationship. He hasn't changed and I finally take off the shades and recognize he is NOT the one.
*I Look To You: I Realize that I don't need a man to make me complete. Nobody does. We are all complete in Christ and at the end of the day we should allow two whole people to join not two half people.
*Exhale (Shoop Shoop): I exhaled and understand that love sucks sometimes but its okay its all for the good. Each relationship we go through is a stepping stone preparing us for the person we are meant to be with (Yes! I still believe in happy endings though I no longer believe in fairy tales.) Just be open to love happening.
*Million Dollar Bill: A much more mature woman I know what I want and now I'm attracting the right kind of men with the right kind of attitude. And though I haven't come across Mr. Right yet they are close.
*How Will I Know: After all the dates and the let downs.. I meet someone.. Its new..It isn't love yet and may not turn into it and that's okay. But for right now... I'm really excited to see where it goes.
This look anything like your Whitney Dating Soundtrack? What Whitney songs are on your love life's greatest hits? Do you think of some songs she wrote and wish they WEREN'T for you.. or that thankfully they aren't for you? Let a sister know...
