I DON’T WANT TO

TONY BRAXTON

SONGWRITERS: Fred Jerkins Iii; Harvey Mason Jr.; Lashawn Daniels & Rodney Jerkins

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE HEAT

LABEL: LAFACE

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2000

 

       Toni Michele Braxton (born October 7, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, actress, and television personality. She has sold over 70 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling female R&B artists in history. Braxton has won seven Grammy Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards, and numerous other accolades. In 2011, Braxton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 2017 she was honored with the Legend Award at the Soul Train Music Awards.

        In the late 1980s, Braxton began performing with her sisters in a music group known as The Braxtons; the group was signed to Arista Records. After attracting the attention of producers Antonio "L.A." Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and being signed to LaFace Records, Braxton released her self-titled debut studio album in 1993. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart and sold 10 million copies worldwide. In addition, the singles "Another Sad Love Song" and "Breathe Again" became international successes. The album brought Braxton three Grammy Awards, including the Grammy for Best New Artist.

         Braxton experienced continued success with the albums Secrets (1996), which included the U.S. #1 hit singles "You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow" and "Un-Break My Heart"; and The Heat (2000), which opened at #2 on the Billboard 200 and included the U.S. #2 hit single "He Wasn't Man Enough". Braxton's subsequent studio albums, More Than a Woman (2002), Libra (2005) and Pulse (2010), were released amid contractual disputes and health issues. In 2014, Braxton and longtime collaborator Babyface released a duet album entitled Love, Marriage & Divorce that earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album in 2015. Further label changes saw the release of Sex & Cigarettes (2018) under Def Jam/Universal and Spell My Name (2020) under Island.

       The Heat is the third studio album by American singer Toni Braxton, released on April 25, 2000, by LaFace Records. The album marked Braxton's departure from her ballads in favor of a more urban sound. Most of the songs (including the nearly instrumental "The Art of Love") were written and produced by Braxton and her husband Keri Lewis (a former member of Mint Condition); two ballads were penned by Diane Warren, and collaborations featured rappers Dr. Dre and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.

  The Heat opened at number two on the Billboard 200 with 199,000 copies sold in its first week. It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 13, 2000, with sales of over two million copies in the United States. Additionally, the album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards, while lead single "He Wasn't Man Enough" won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and was nominated for Best R&B Song.

Darkchild, oh yeah

Toni Braxton, oh

Ha ha, uh huh

Yeah, uh uh

Darkchild, yeah

 

Listen, girl

Who do you think I am?

Don't you know that he was my man?

But I chose to let him go

So why do you act like I still care about him?

Looking at me like I'm hurt

When I'm the one who said I didn't want it to work

Don't you forget I had him first?

 

What you thinkin'?

Stop blamin' me

He wasn't man enough for me

If you don't know, now here's the chance

I've already had your man

Do you wonder just where he's been, yeah?

Not be worried about him

Now it's time you know the truth

I think he's just the man for you

 

What are you thinking?

Did you know about us back then?

Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?

I'm not thinking 'bout him

But you married him

Do you know I made him leave?

Do you know he begged to stay with me?

He wasn't man enough for me

 

Listen, girl

Didn't he tell you the truth?

If not then, why don't you ask him?

Then maybe you can be more into him

Instead of worrying about me

And hopefully you won't find

All the reasons why his love didn't count

And why we couldn't work it out

 

What you thinkin'?

Stop blamin' me

He wasn't man enough for me

If you don't know, now here's the chance

I've already had your man

Do you wonder just where he's been, yeah?

Not be worried about him

Now it's time you know the truth

I think he's just the man for you

 

What are you thinking?

Did you know about us back then?

Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?

I'm not thinking 'bout him

But you married him

Do you know I made him leave?

Do you know he begged to stay with me?

He wasn't man enough for me

 

What are you thinking?

Did you know about us back then?

Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?

I'm not thinking 'bout him

But you married him

Do you know I made him leave?

Do you know he begged to stay with me?

He wasn't man enough for me

 

Oh yeah

So many reasons why our love is through, yeah

What makes you think he'll be good to you, no

It makes no sense 'cause he will never change

Girl, you better recognize the game, oh yeah

 

What are you thinking?

Did you know about us back then?

Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?

I'm not thinking 'bout him

But you married him

Do you know I made him leave?

Do you know he begged to stay with me?

He wasn't man enough for me

 

What are you thinking?

Did you know about us back then?

Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?

I'm not thinking 'bout him

But you married him

Do you know I made him leave?

Do you know he begged to stay with me?

He wasn't man enough for me

 

What are you thinking?

Did you know about us back then?

Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?

I'm not thinking 'bout him

But you married him

Do you know I made him leave?

Do you know he begged to stay with me?

He wasn't man enough for me.

WHEN WILL I BE LOVED

LINDA RONDSTADT

SONGWRITER: PHIL EVERLY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: I FALL TO PIECES(LIVE)

LABEL: HOUDE OF HUMBUG

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1974

 

      Linda Maria Ronstadt(born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 11Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.

       Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Ronstadt also charted in UK as two of her duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively and the single "Blue Bayou" reached number 35 on the UK Singles charts. 

I've been cheated, been mistreated

When will I be loved

 

I've been put down, I've been pushed 'round

When will I be loved

 

When I find a new man that I want for mine

Always breaks my heart in two, it happens every time

 

I've been made blue, I've been lied to

When will I be loved

 

When I find a new man that I want for mine

Always breaks my heart in two, it happens every time

 

I've been cheated, been mistreated

When will I be loved

When will I be loved

Tell me when will I be loved.

IN THE END

LINKIN PARK

SONGWRITERS: BRAD DELSON; CHESTER CHARLES BENNINGTON; JOSEPH HAHN; MIKE SHINODA & ROBERT G. BOURDON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TIK TOCK HITS 2021 VIRAL ITALIA

LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP

GENRE: ROCK BAND

YEAR: 2021

 

       Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. The band's current lineup comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, lead guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave Farrell, DJ/turntablist Joe Hahn and drummer Rob Bourdon, all of whom are founding members. Vocalists Mark Wakefield and Chester Bennington are former members of the band. Categorized as alternative rock, Linkin Park's earlier music spanned a fusion of heavy metal and hip hop, while their later music features more electronica and pop elements.

         Formed in 1996, Linkin Park rose to international fame with their debut studio album, Hybrid Theory(2000), which became certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA). Released during the peak of the nu metal scene, the album's singles' heavy airplay on MTV led the singles "One Step Closer", "Crawling" and "In the End" all to chart highly on the Mainstream Rock chart; the latter crossed over to the pop chart. Their second album, Meteora(2003), continued the band's success. The band explored experimental sounds on their third album, Minutes to Midnight(2007). By the end of the decade, Linkin Park was among the most successful and popular rock acts.

         The band continued to explore a wider variation of musical types on their fourth album, A Thousand Suns(2010), layering their music with more electronic sounds. The band's fifth album, Living Things(2012), combined musical elements from all of their previous records. Their sixth album, The Hunting Party(2014), returned to a heavier rock sound, and their seventh album, One More Light(2017), was their first pop-oriented record. Linkin Park went on a hiatus when longtime lead vocalist Bennington died by suicide in July 2017. In April 2022, Shinoda revealed the band was neither working on new music nor planning on touring for the foreseeable future.

It starts with one

All I know

It's so unreal

Watch you go

 

I tried so hard and got so far

But in the end, it doesn't even matter

I had to fall to lose it all

But in the end, it doesn't even matter

 

One thing, I don't know why

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme

To remind myself of a time when I tried so hard

In spite of the way you were mockin' me

Actin' like I was part of your property

Remembering all the times you fought with me

I'm surprised it got so far

Things aren't the way they were before

You wouldn't even recognize me anymore

Not that you knew me back then

But it all comes back to me in the end

You kept everything inside

And even though I tried, it all fell apart

What it meant to me will eventually

Be a memory of a time when I

 

I tried so hard and got so far

But in the end, it doesn't even matter

I had to fall to lose it all

But in the end, it doesn't even matter

 

One thing, I don't know why

It doesn't even matter how hard you try

Keep that in mind

I designed this rhyme to explain in due time

All I know

Time is a valuable thing

Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings

Watch it count down to the end of the day

The clock ticks life away

It's so unreal

You didn't look out below

Watch the time go right out the window

Tryin' to hold on, they didn't even know

I wasted it all just to watch you go

I kept everything inside

And even though I tried, it all fell apart

What it meant to me will eventually be a memory

Of a time when I tried so hard.

BETTER THAN TODAY

KYLIE MINOGUE

SONGWRITER: Andrew Vincent Chatterley & Nerina Natasha Georgina Pallot

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: APHRODITE

LABEL: PARLOPHONE

GENRE: DANCE-POP

YEAR: 2010

 

         Kylie Ann Minogue AO (/mɪˈnoʊɡ/; born 28 May 1968), sometimes known mononymously as Kylie, is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress who holds both Australian and British citizenship. She is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. She has been recognised for reinventing herself in music and fashion, for which she is referred to by the European press as the "Princess of Pop" and a style icon. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards and 17 ARIA Music Awards.

       Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first achieved recognition starring in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, playing tomboy mechanic Charlene Robinson. She gained prominence as a recording artist in the late 1980s and released four bubblegum and dance-pop-influenced studio albums produced by Stock Aitken Waterman. By the early 1990s, she had amassed several top ten singles in the UK and Australia, including "I Should Be So Lucky", "The Loco-Motion", "Hand on Your Heart", and "Better the Devil You Know". Taking more creative control over her music, Minogue signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released Kylie Minogue(1994) and Impossible Princess (1997), both of which received positive reviews. She returned to mainstream dance-oriented music with 2000's Light Years, including the number-one hits "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This". The follow-up, Fever(2001), was an international breakthrough for Minogue, becoming her best-selling album to date. Two of its singles, "Love at First Sight" and "In Your Eyes", became hits, but its lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" became one of the most successful singles of the 2000s, selling over five million units.

       Minogue continued reinventing her image and experimenting with a range of genres on her subsequent albums, which spawned successful singles such as "Slow", "2 Hearts", "All the Lovers", "Santa Baby", "Timebomb" and "Dancing". With her 2020 album Disco, she became the first female artist to have a chart-topping album in the UK for five consecutive decades. Minogue made her film debut in The Delinquents(1989) and portrayed Cammy in Street Fighter (1994). She has also appeared in the films Moulin Rouge!(2001), Jack & Diane, Holy Motors (2012) and San Andreas(2015). In 2014, she appeared as a judge on the third series of The Voice UK and The Voice Australia. Her other ventures include product endorsements, children's books, fashion, and charitable work.

       Aphrodite is the eleventh studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It was released on 30 June 2010 by Parlophone. In 2009, Minogue began working with British electronic music producer Stuart Price, who served as the executive producer of the album. The two collaborated with various producers and writers on the album, including Jake Shears, Calvin Harris, Sebastian Ingrosso and Pascal Gabriel. Aphrodite follows a musical approach similar to Minogue's previous albums and is primarily a dance-pop and disco-pop record. It draws influences from various dance-based genres including electropop, club and rave music.

        Aphrodite received generally positive reviews from music critics, many of whom complimented it as a return to form for Minogue, however, some critics were divided on its production. In Australia, Aphrodite peaked at number two on the Australian Albums Chart, and was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association(ARIA). In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, earning Minogue the Guinness World Record for achieving the most consecutive decades with top five albums in the country. Additionally, it reached the top five in Belgium, Canada, France, Greece, Spain, and, Switzerland, among others.

        Four singles were released from Aphrodite. The lead single, "All the Lovers", peaked at number three in the United Kingdom and reached the top 10 in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Subsequent singles "Get Outta My Way", "Better than Today", and "Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)" generally underperformed on the charts, causing Minogue to express disappointment in her label. In the United States, all four singles released from the album peaked atop the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. To further promote the album, Minogue

Oh, I see what you do

But I can do it better

And the talk of the town (?)

That I'll make you forget her

 

How can you hate something that you ain't ever tried?

You've got to lose control 'most every night

Yeah, you see what they do

But we can do it better; yeah, I'm talking to you

 

You've got to feel it, see it, know how much you need it

What's the point in living if you don't take a chance?

You've got to use it, lose it, know the chance to do it

What's the point in living if you don't wanna dance?

 

Oh, I know life is hard

So we live it for the weekend

You can hurt or take heart

I guess it really depends

 

What's the point in worrying about being cool

When there's a million things to learn they never teach you in school?

Oh, don't believe what they say

We just want tomorrow to be better than today

 

You've got to feel it, see it, know how much you need it

What's the point in living if you don't take a chance?

You've got to use it, lose it, know the chance to do it

What's the point in living if you don't wanna dance?

 

You've got to feel it, see it, know how much you need it

What's the point in living if you don't take a chance?

You've got to use it, lose it, know the chance to do it

What's the point in living if you don't wanna dance?

 

Fabrications complicate the world in a web

Too much useless information plays with your head

Very clever people know we all need a chance

To stop our clever business and let go and dance

 

You've got to use it, lose it, know the chance to do it

What's the point in living if you don't wanna dance?

You've got to feel it, see it, know how much you need it

What's the point in living if you don't take a chance?

You've got to use it, lose it, know the chance to do it

What's the point in living if you don't wanna dance?

 

Oh, oh, oh, oh, everybody, everybody, wanna dance now?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, everybody, everybody, wanna dance now?