DO IT LIKE A DUDE

JESSIE J
SONGWRITERS: Jason Andrew Pebworth; George Astasio; Kyle James Abrahams; Jonathan Shave; Jessica Cornish & Peter Abrahams
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: WHO YOU ARE
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2011
 
        Who You Are is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Jessie J. It was released on 28 February 2011 by Lava Records, Island Records and Universal Republic Records. In such a high demand and interest from fans, the release was advanced by a month from 28 March, as previously planned. Recording sessions took place between 2005 and 2011, with several other record producers contributing on the album such as Dr. Luke, Toby Gad and K-Gee, among others.
        Who You Are received generally mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. It debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 105,000 copies in its first week. The album debuted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 34,000 copies. Two singles preceded the album: Jessie J's UK debut single "Do It Like a Dude" and "Price Tag" featuring B.o.B, which served as the US lead single. The third single, "Nobody's Perfect", became J's third consecutive top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. The fourth single from the album, "Who's Laughing Now" was released on 21 August 2011, peaking at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. The title track, "Who You Are" was released as the album's fifth UK single on 13 November 2011.
        The re-release of Who You Are (variably called the "Deluxe Edition" or the "Platinum Edition") was released on 14 November 2011. It includes three bonus tracks: Jessie's second UK #1 single "Domino", "My Shadow" and "Laserlight", a collaboration with David Guetta. Who You Are is the first album by a British female artist in history to produce six or more top ten hits in United Kingdom.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey...
J-J-J-J Jessie J
 
Stomp, stomp I've arrived
Drop the beat, nasty face
Why you lookin' at me?
 
Flyin', flyin', flyin', flyin'
Through the sky
In my spaceship
I'm an alien tonight
 
Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty sucka
You think I can't get hood like you
You motherfucker
 
I can do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
Do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
We can do it like the man'dem, man'dem
(Hey) We can do it like the man'dem
Sugar, sugar, sugar
We can do it like the man'dem, man'dem
(Hey) We can do it like the man'dem
Sugar, sugar, sugar
 
Bong, bong, hey, pour me a beer
No pretty drinks, I'm a guy out here
Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' money like a pimp
My B-I-T-C-H is on my dick like this
 
Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty sucker
You think I can't get hurt like you
You motherfucker
 
I can do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
Do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
We can do it like the man'dem, man'dem
(Hey) We can do it like the man'dem
Sugar, sugar, sugar
We can do it like the man'dem, man'dem
(Hey) We can do it like the man'dem
Sugar, sugar, sugar
 
Boys, come, come say what you wanna
Boys, you, you need to lick my dollar
Boys, g-getting hot under the collar
Holler, holler, whoa
 
Boys, come, come say what you wanna
(Come over here)
Boys, you, you need to lick my dollar
(Haha, lick my dollar, dollar, yeah, okay)
Boys, g-getting hot under the collar
Holler, holler, whoa
(Break it down)
 
I can do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
Do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
We can do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
Do it like a brother
Do it like a dude
Grab my crotch
Wear my hat low like you
 
We can do it like the man'dem, man'dem]
(Hey) We can do it like the man'dem
Sugar, sugar, sugar
We can do it like the man'dem, man'dem
 
We can do it like the man'dem
Sugar, sugar, sugar, yeah
Do it, do it like a dude (Okay)
Do it, do it low like you
 
Do it, do it like a dude (Ha ha)
Do it, do it, do it like a dude.

BE CAREFUL OF MY HEART

TRACY CHAPMAN
SONGWRITER: TRACY CHAPMAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: CROSSROADS
LABEL: ELEKTRA
GENRE: FOLK
YEAR: 1989
 
       Tracy Chapman(born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. A multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award–winning artist, Chapman is known for her hit singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", and "Give Me One Reason".
            Chapman was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her debut album, Tracy Chapman, which became a worldwide success, and was certified 6×Platinum by the RIAA. The album earned Chapman six Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year, three of which she won; Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car", and Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 1989, Chapman released her second album, Crossroads, which earned her an additional Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Her third album, Matters of the Heart, followed in 1992.
        Chapman's fourth album, New Beginning, was released in 1995 and became another worldwide success. It was certified 5×platinum and yielded the hit single "Give Me One Reason", which earned Chapman the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. Five years would pass before the release of her fifth album, Telling Stories (2000), which later went Gold. Let It Rain and Where You Live followed in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Chapman's most recent studio album is Our Bright Future, released in 2008. The remastered compilation álbum Greatest Hits, which was curated by Chapman herself, was released in 2015.
      Crossroads is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, released in 1989. Chapman was also a producer on this album, the first time she had taken on such a role. The song "Freedom Now" is dedicated to Nelson Mandela.
You and your sweet smile
You and all your tantalizing ways
You and your honey lips
You and all the sweet things that they say
You and your wild wild ways
One day you just up and walked away
Oh you left me hurting
But I can forgive you for that now
You taught me something
Something took half my life to learn
When you give all yourself away
Just tell them to be careful of your heart
 
Be careful of my heart, heart
Be careful of this heart of mine
Be careful of my heart, heart
Just might break and send some splinters flying
Be careful of my heart, heart
 
Be careful
You you you
You you you
You you you
 
Took my love
Thought you took it all
 
You you you
You you you
You you you
Took my love
And now you're gone
But I'm not breaking down
And I'm not falling apart
I just lost a little faith
When you broke my heart
 
Given a chance
I might try it again
But i wouldn't risk it all this time
 
I'd save
A little love for myself
Enough for my heart to mend
A little love for myself
One day I just might love again
One day some sweet smile might turn my head
One day I just might give all myself away
One day
One day
One day.

ANGEL

SARAH MCLACHLAN
SONGWRITERS: SARAH MCLACHLAN & RUDY PEREZ
COUNTRY: CANADIAN
ALBUM: SURFACING AND CITY OF ANGELS
LABEL: WARNER SUNSET
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1998
 
         Sarah Ann McLachlan(born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards(out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased women musicians.
       "Angel" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. The song first appeared on McLachlan's fourth studio album, Surfacing, in 1997 and was released as the album's fourth and final single in September 1998. The lyrics are about the death of Jonathan Melvoin(1961–1996), the Smashing Pumpkins' touring keyboard player, from a heroin overdose, as McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers. It is sometimes mistitled as "In the Arms of an Angel" or "Arms of the Angel".
        "Angel" was McLachlan's second consecutive top-five hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number four. It also spent 12 weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, placing as the number-one song on that chart for 1999. In McLachlan's native Canada, it reached number seven on the RPM Top Singles chart and number three on the Adult Contemporary chart. Outside North America, the song has charted in several countries in the years following its release, including reaching number seven in Ireland in 2002 and number nine in Norway in 2008.
Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always some reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh a beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins
Let me be empty
Oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
 
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here
 
So tired of the straight line
And everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
You keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference
Escaping one last time
 
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness
 
Oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees
In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here.

 TURNING TURTLE

EMILY BLUNT
SONGWRITERS: MARC SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: MARY POPPINS RETURNS
LABEL: WALT DISNEY
GENRE: SOUNDTRACK
YEAR: 2018
 
           Emily Olivia Leah Blunt(born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards.
        Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family. She went on to appear in the television film Boudica(2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII(2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love(2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
         Blunt's profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film The Young Victoria(2009), the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen(2011), the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau(2011), Looper (2012), and Edge of Tomorrow(2014), and the musical films Into the Woods(2014) and Mary Poppins Returns(2018). She received critical acclaim for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario(2015), an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train(2016), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and a survivalist mother in the horror film A Quiet Place(2018), for which she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Turning turtle? What exactly does that mean?
It means my whole world goes flippity flop like a turtle on its back.
And I don't know my up from my down, my east from my west,
My topsy from my bottomsy
 
If you bring something broken on a Thursday
I'll make new, with my glue, pins and thread
But you bring whatever broken on a Friday
I will mend and then spend the day in bed
Children, Saturn, Sun and Mondays are just everything is fun days
But in the second week, I wear a frown
For, I know that after Tuesday comes the Topsy get's bad news day
It's the dreaded second Wednesday
When from 9 to noon, my life turns upside down
 
If fast is slow, low is high, stop is go and that is why
Every second Wednesday is a hurdle
From 8 to 9, all is well
Then I roll over on my shell
And all because the world is turning turtle
 
Day is night, dog is cat, black is white, thin is fat
That is why I'm loosening up my girdle
I cannot help this charming troop
Don't lock me, 'cause I'm in this soup
And why? Because the world is turning turtle
 
Oh, woe is me, I'm as opposite as I can be
I long for Thursdays when the world is drab
When will it cease? Now my life resembles War and Peace
That Tolstoy certainly had the gift of gab, I couldn't get through it
 
Bottom's top, ying is yang, Sturm und Drang
Tuesday nights, my blood begins to curdle
East is west, in is out, and that is why I need to shout
Oh no! The world is turning turtle
 
Oh, if you had come some other morn'
You wouldn't have found me so forlorn
But, since the day that I was born
Second Wednesday is on the fritz
I couldn't mend this to save my soul
If this keeps up, I'll dig a hole
You say life's a cherry bowl
But Wednesday's full of pits
Tell us, can you fix this drum?
 
Well, today it's looking glum
Can you mend this crack and broken string?
Perhaps if you all lend a hand
Our fingers are at your command
A broken song, but still can sing
Let's do the turtle swing
 
Oh, woe is me. Now I'm on my head
How can that be?
Well you say woe, but I say lucky you
Lucky me?
Yes. Here on your head A is far behind in letters, I've said
It's good to get a different point of view
 
You see, when the world turns upside down,
The best thing is turn right along with it
I do see! From down here, things look right side up, hahaha
I wouldn't mind seeing things from that angle
Sounds like fun
Can we?
Very well. Flippity flop
 
Near is far and here is there
Turtles turning everywhere
Things are getting clear
Then knock on wood my dear
 
When you change the view from where you stood
The things you view will change for good
 
I never thought of things that way
She never thought of things that way
Now Wednesdays are my favorite days
Now Wednesdays are her favorite days
Cause that's the day, I'm quite contrary.
I'm now, thanks to cousin Mar
I have changed. To be exact, I love the fact
The world is turning turtle, turtle, turtle.