Simply Cheris. . .

When I first heard Thicke  singing When I get You Alone, I was hooked. I didn't think Robin Thicke would eat Jon B's career, but it seems as if these days you can only have one white boy with soul in R&B. But I digress. So, Babyface couldn't duplicate the success of Jon B with Robin. I'm thinking it may have had more to do with long hair and bike riding video. Then the Neptunes took over and The Evolution of Robin Thicke was born. My favorite song from that CD was Wanna Love You Girl.  Pharrell is a damned genius. So, I was drinking the Robin Thicke Kool-Aid and pretending that he wasn't corny Alan Thicke's son. Then I saw he was married to Paula Patton. I'm a sucker for a love story. They were high school sweethearts, she was the inspiration for his music. She was on the cover of his first album and the star of many of his videos. Aww, the romance writer in me was pleased. Then, Robin started tripping. It started with some off handed comments ...

Lately, I've been listening to a lot of old school and old school sounding artists. And by old school sounding artists, I mean people who can sing. Shout out to Lalah Hathaway ! If you don't have her new release, Where It All Begins , you're missing out! So, I'm sitting here trying to write this scene about a family in crisis and iTunes begins to play Marvin Gaye's When Did You Stop Loving Me from the Here, My Dear album. When many of us think of Marvin, we immediately go to the sexy tunes, Sexual Healing and Let's Get It On (yeah, I was listening to Marvin when I came up with that title), but on HMD, Marvin was mad as hell. I guess you can't blame him, he was going through a very public divorce with Berry Gordy's sister, Anna. (Anna's Song is the ultimate middle finger to an ex.) He settled the case in a very public way with this double album. At the time, superstars weren't on reality TV and putting us all up in their business. Hell, Ann...