February 13, 2004

"Yes. Cause I’m a Tribbiani. This is what we do! I mean, we may not be great thinkers or world leaders. We don’t read a lot... or run very fast... but dammit, we can eat!!!" - Joey

Sadness has me at the end of the line
Helpless watched you break this heart of mine
And loneliness only wants you back here with me
Common sense knows that you're not good enough for me
And all you had to do
Was apologize, and mean it

Don't get me wrong, there's a ton of talent out there, but right now, Brian McKnight is the best ballad writer out there. Obviously ballads and r&b are a quickly shrinking genre, but to be able to still come out with quality material given such narrow field of topics (either she left me, come back to me, happy with her, or some mixing of the three) is, in my humble opinion, quite impressive. I know this song was "co-written" by Brian McKnight and Justin Timberlake, and I think it's obvious that I'm a JT fan and respect him for both who and what he's done, but honestly, are you gonna even try to help Brian McKnight write a ballad? I'm mean how do you even go about doing that? It would be like me giving Michael Jordan tips on his jumper, or remixing Mozart's Symphony No. 40, or airbrushing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Maybe a step too far, but you get my drift. Or showing Byron Scott how to coach... haha..BOOYAH!!

Posted by Mark at February 13, 2004 05:29 PM

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