Fling Chune FRIDAY: Good Morning

"Hey, hey, heeeey!" (said like Fat Albert)  If you grew up in the late 70s/early 80s, that name shoulda given you a great blast from the past.  Hope everybody had a great week!  Mine got a bit busy towards the end but I'm just glad it's over.  No long talking today--gonna get straight to the chune.

This is definitely a feel-good, bounce-around, get-the-vibes-flowing kinda chune! Just like the name, this joint is sure to get your day kicked off on the right foot.  Like, I can see myself making my neighbors sick of this song because it will be my wake-up alarm every single morning! Mandisa's voice definitely shines through, but unfortunately not over the wack obligatory verse by producer Toby Mac [think Puffy/P. Diddy from the late 90s making his presence known on basically every song every put out by a Bad Boy artist]. Yeah, annoying like that. *Disclaimer: Nuthin' personal against T-Mac; just keepin' it 100.*

Anyway, have yourself a Good Morning, courtesy of Mandisa and yours truly!
pVI

Fling Chune FRIDAY: Unleashed

Happy Friday!!  Maybe one day I won't be so happy for my work week to end... until such time, TGIF--and then some! :o) 

This week wasn't terribly bad, but I did suffer from pangs of worry throughout. My car has been psychotic since December and I've been taking it--sometimes towing it--around to different mechanics in hopes of minimal damage (to my wallet)... only to be told this week that a new transmission is needed.  God help me!!!

Welp!  I won't burden you with that any further.  Time for some BIG CHUNE!!

This week, I'm sharing a song that jumped right at me from the first couple of bars--gotta praise the Lord for Pandora!  While listening to my Ayiesha Woods station, this one track had a funky guitar intro... so much so that I hit the 'thumbs-up' before the 1:00 mark.  By the time it was over, I had already looked up the artist to find out where Warren Barfield had been all my life!  

I discovered that he was the artist of the theme song for Fireproof--a movie which I absolutely adore--named Love is not a Fight.  Apparently, that mellow style is mostly his modus operandi but lemme tell ya, I just love today's chune: Unleashed.

True to the title, it's like homeboy searched within the recesses of his soul and unleashed his inner... well, SOUL! LOL  Compared to the rest of his repertoire, this song makes me think that I'm listening to Harry Connick, Jr. after a couple shots of holy crunk juice--white boy put some STANK on it!

OK, so I've hyped it up enough, right? :o)  Here ya go--Unleashed!

Fling Chune FRIDAY: Meditate

Happy Friday and 'day-after-Turkey-day' to one and all! Sorry this week's chune is running late, but I can assure you that it's not due to Black Friday madness! I haven't shopped for the day (we'll see how long that lasts, though). LOL  But my Thanksgiving was chill, which is normal for me. I'm an only child and my parents divorced when I was a younggin', so I've never really been the beneficiary of those tight-knit family holiday gatherings... and that's fine. 

Today's chune is something of a note-to-self, in that my mind has been going buck wild lately.  I've always had an active imagination and intense thought life [it's an only child thing; you wouldn't understand], but things have gotten to a whole 'nother level... and not in a good way, either.  This will probably be more than you ever care to hear me say, but I'll put it out there, anyway: I'm thinking about sex. Yeah, I said it--this Christian woman thinks about SEX! Like, my inner porn star God-given sexual nature wants to make itself known. *sigh* Too bad that's not an option for me within the immediate future... (And that's already TMI, so I'll shut this convo down...unless you choose to bring it up in the comment box. Then it's on and poppin'! LOL)

But back to the chune at hand--I need to re-focus my thoughts on what really matters.  I want to throw my mind into God with the same reckless abandon, but the score is shaping up like this: God=4, sex=277. #FAIL  So Meditate by sister-group Out of Eden came to mind after having it on heavy rotation back in my college daze.  That was around the time I recently re-committed my life to Christ and needed all the help I could get to be transformed by the renewing of my mind.  I guess life is truly cyclical as I'm in a similar state of mind almost 10 years later.  The good thing is that God remains the same yesterday, today and forever!

Be blessed!

pVI

I need to "Live Loved"

This song is actually a prayer--and my latest anthem--reminding us to exist within the fullness of God's love. SOOOO feelin' this right now and just had to share. In fact, I already iTuned it! Enjoy!