#The-Dream

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[glittergroovy]

No Church in the Wild - Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, The-Dream

[ungoliantschilde]

“No Church in the Wild”, by Jay-Z and Kanye, featuring Frank Ocean and The-Dream.

[thixcy]

‘08. So nostalgic. One of many songs requested by grammar school kids to make mixtapes for them. What did we know about this 🥴 we were bad ass kids

[geekpopnews]

Review | Usher retorna mais incrível do que nunca em "Coming Home"

Ele está de volta: às vésperas de sua apresentação no intervalo do Super Bowl, Usher lançou o álbum “Coming Home” com feats de peso e hits memoráveis. Confira a review completa do nono disco de estúdio do rapper! #Usher #ComingHome #SuperBowl

Prestes a quebrar tudo com seus maiores hits no Super Bowl, Usher lançou o aguardado álbum “Coming Home” nesta sexta-feira (9). O novo projeto de estúdio do artista é uma grande celebração do R&B de mais alto nível e traz feats de peso em letras essencialmente românticas, que reafirmam a grandiosidade e versatilidade do cantor em suas três décadas de carreira. Com músicas ao lado de Burna Boy,…

[august-sysex]

tracklist from my virgo mix 🌾

[azsdiary]

This is an exposition of my once broken heart

[press play, then read]

This song is so beautiful I had to look up who it was inspired by. Who was worthy of it?

The last time I did that it was with “Complicated” by Nivea and I found out the man she wrote it about she divorced shortly afterwards.

In the lyrics of Complicated, Nivea sings that her friends warned her this isn’t how love is supposed to go but she ‘refuses to believe’ because she’s convinced the red flags turning green is really happening to her. She states this love was life giving her something back, like she was owed it. And then declares her love before a sad guitar solo. The song even opens with the sound of rain.

I used to cling to that song as the ultimate love song. I see it as the antithesis of ‘So into You’ - so we can use it to explore how my mind’s view of love has matured by contrasting these songs against one another.

‘Complicated’ even by the title sounds like a sad song. The long rain sound opening and entire vibe of the song is completely sad sounding. How could it have been my ultimate love song of choice?

Because that was the love I knew. Love inseparable from toxic complications, doubts of commitment and a sad love that said ‘I’ll prove them wrong these red flags actually have a perfectly good explanation. They’ll see.’

I know this post is God. This morning I just happened to see this throwback of Lauren London pregnant- with lil Wayne’s child?! I never knew that happened… then now, looking for Nivea’s muse I find out she was pregnant by Wayne at the same time as Lauren. All in the same morning. Wayne was the complication she sung of when comparing him to her muse in ‘Complicated’.

One of the biggest red flags of complicated as a song was the lack of description of the muse she was in love with. It sings of a fairytale where only the woman’s journey is described. There’s no reason given for why she loves him or even if he loves her back. It sounds like a love that takes place in the singers head. Thinking and dreaming about him in her head all day, but no stories to sing of to match.

All we know is he made her his wife. The entire rest of the song is not bout him at all. As if there was nothing to say.

Tamia sings of thoughts of him running through her head but also of the real life reflection of how he is actually worth these thoughts.

Psalms shows when you love someone there’s a lot to say about what they’ve done.

It sounds like Nivea’s in love with the feelings she gets from thinking he loves her and repeats how she loves him will do whatever he asks, Tamia sings she loves what he’s Done to her and how he makes her feel is right. But also about ‘how you speak to and hold me. And you love me.’

Tamia sings of dreams too but also that they’re together firmly in the very next sentence and is aiming for a committed love.

Tamia sings let’s stay together - a combined effort, Nivea sings I’ll never let you go as if she’s the one holding them together

Nivea sings that she has no idea what’s happening or what he’s doing and is just grateful he’s in her life. That love is magic it can’t be described. Tamia sings that she can’t explain it but she is awake and aware of what he does and sees that what he does is good.

Nivea sings she dreams about him all day. Tamia sings he’s a dream come TRUE. It moved beyond fantasy of his potential - it was real love manifested in reality.

So I thought Love was something I was owed from the same man for the pain I would go through to stick by him despite the trouble and pain he put me through, correcting and improving him along the way.

Can I expose him for a second? His thoughts are thrown up in my mind for years to come. I feel nothing but I know how poor he was now. Poor in the mind. Poor in the heart.

“I would never call my wife or gf beautiful, that’s just not how I operate.” Never apologised for leaving me up waiting for calls several times, Late into the night. Said he finally decided to stop being petty only bc he realised being petty is a woman’s thing. Said wives obey their husbands bc they know if they disobey there’ll be consequences. He was colorist. Genuinely thought his country was supreme to others of the same race. girls are replaceable. Left me in a 3y unclear talking stage, had a rumoured gf for part of the first year that I had to find out about myself when he just said she was his prom date, announced he lost his ********* since after we started talking on livestream just after I joined. Told me id get no where in life overthinking when I explained how I felt. Said women are just another h** until he’s met their family. Thinks women can never be needed (marriage), just added to a life optionally.

When I told him I described some of his behaviour to a friend who said he would use me and discard me his reply was “Even if I did that’s none of their business it’s nothing to do with them.“

I was Nivea.

2.

They Don’t Know - Jon B is the male answer to Nivea’s Complicated. A man expressing how her friends are just jealous and he is a player but he just happened to quit when he met her. It used to read love to me but it sounds more to the tune of gaslighting, now. It was the voice I listened to, to reaffirm that he would change for me. Because the man I listened on behalf of would never tell me himself.

I thought he would change because I prayed enough for it. Because God wanted him to, I thought. I just had to hold it together for a while whilst he breaks me. Not God, him. No. That’s trying to love someone but it is not Love. If you’ve seen that Bruce Almighty scene then you know you can’t change someone who chooses to remain the same willingly.

3.

& now, our happy ending.

“So into you” is the only expression of stable committed love song I know by a female voice. The rest have an air of uncertainty like full commitment is still in question. Like best part by H.E.R “won’t you give yourself to me?” As if all was not already given. Listen closer to the lyrics of your favourite love song. Is It healthy?

Tamia sings of a Stable Love that she has already and wishes to continue, that she loves and is loved in action and word. Heaven sent.

It opens with the most beautiful warm sound and carries into a slow beautiful stable melody that sounds so relaxed. Like a warm day.

And who did this worthy man turn out to be? A fine then NBA Star, man of God who stuck though his wife coming 25 years now through illness and challenges on both ends. Real Love.

Of course - a marriage built on Christ can only stand. He invented it.

I’m praying for it.

Outro: well I came here to try and write about the new in my life which I wasn’t able to express and I guess the exposition of my heart up until the present which I then stopped at instead- and still can’t write about - shows I still can’t. But I love what I wrote today. I didn’t know what was happening to me I was so confused and darkened about love but these 3 years I’ve Studied Gods word I can see that I know that He is love. And so I know so much clearer what Love is.

1 John 4:7-12 “Whoever does not know love does not know God because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us; He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him.”

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[glittergroovy]

No Church in the Wild - Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, The-Dream

[draconym]

My dreams haven't really been subtle lately.

[withbellzon]

never left my rotation. also miss this style of music video

[sadclowncentral]

i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you: