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good stuff, just some good thoughts today. Today we're gonna talk about our favorite things. Yeah, favorite day, the things that make us feel out fuzzy and happy and yeah, i'd of stuff. Yeah, save that voice because I need to hear that come out of an animated someone. Listen. If somebody give me a job, I'm like looking looking to create something like good voices, Hello people that right things, I mean that draw things. She has great voices, draw her something. Yeah, I got lots of come with the

come on because I like these things. A lovely young man who um who was part of soul that did a lot of the animation for Soul Brother. He's amazing. Remember I don't I follow him on the I g oh, well, look at that communicate on the social media's. It's crazy because you know, a couple of years ago, it was like six degrees of separation, yes it yep. Now it's like one. Oh yeah, you can pretty much get to anybody really if you wanted to, super hard to do.

I think that's a favorite thing. I think I like. I like that. I do. I like the social media's. I do the social media is, but I do like it. I like the fact that I can say, hey, doci, I think you're dope, yeah, and leave that little message, and if she sees it, she sees it. If she doesn't, she doesn't, you know, but I said it. He got it out there. That's what I'm saying. Yes, I mean, you know, of the we rarely talk of the positive.

But I do think that's one of my favorite things too, that I have met some fabulous people on the socials. I have a few have become my real friends and in the real life. Okay, it's beautiful, And I do have to add a shady element because we are who we are and I just gotta say that, you know, it makes sense. The selections are much easier these days now that everything is kind of wearing down and certain people are buying into our social media platforms and things.

So now we can say like, yeah, I G is great and TikTok and and I G is great and tickto right. Yeah, we can't say the other thing that the other platform that shall remain name nameless. Are we talking about Facebook? No? Were we talking about while you were ill? Something it will happened? Tweetly dality tweet a d d D the tweet, the tweel d. Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Oh man, you know the man then didn't bought the Twitter. The Twitter didn't

been bought by the one of divorce men. So like the tweeter about to change forever, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it is not going to be one of our favorite things. Yeah. Wow, Okay, Well, um, I since I've been out because I was coughing and not feeling well, Um, I don't know that I'm gonna believe y'all. But yeah, that thing that got bought, yeah, thank god bought but the cillionaire, no is it the

e lien guy. Yeah, things are changing. People ain't got you listen, It's about to be a good ship shot. Look at leave it to me, Leave it to me, Leave it to me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just I just no ugly things from the favorite things like yeah, I like to be able to say, hey, stephany meals, I love you. I like to be able to say that randomly. And if she sees it, she sees it. If she doesn't, she doesn't, you know, and that's all right by me. On I G is one of my

favorite things. She's definitely a good idea of the elders. I love the elders that embrace the social media's Oh my god. John Amos and his son on Instagram, y'all favorite honey Dion Warwick on the tweedled Little Dear Girl. It's all the things, all of the things, all the truth, all the truth. Okay, that is enjoyable. Yes, you can't get a chance to tell the people that you like really Rockwood and the people who have you know, been instrumental and you're becoming and you get to say I

really appreciate you. Other than that, you would have had to have written a letter and wait till you saw them at an event that. Yes, that was back in the day you had to write a fan letter, a fan letter yes to a specific po box. I wrote one of those. I wrote, who would you write a fan letter to? Lie? Dear new edition, in fact, dear Ralph Chess fan that Sunday. I know that we will be together. I can feel it. I love your voice.

I have always loved your voice. And when our eyes connected at the my best friend was so mad, but she knew it just like I knew it too, that we were meant to be always loved Jill m I've got a picture of Jill and Rolph trash Van that is so funny because you know that which you were rob trans van, you are cheesing. So I was like, why is your listen because that was a booth thing that was my boo. Hey, that was my boo And I was like, oh he hugging tight and brilliant even made.

And who So that was your favorite? Who was your favorite? Do edition? Like? Oh my okay, don't don't try to play me because listen, we're gonna laugh. Go ahead, go ahead. It was Ronnie. I don't see why that was the girls, the girls. It was he was Ronnie. Yeah, it was just something about It was something about Ronnie. I don't know what Ronnie sounds like as as a singer to this day, but we don't know. It's okay, and it's not for us to know. I will say this, Ronnie

has aged magnifico. He is one of my favorite stars of any marriage boot camp show. Now favorite, I can't tell all of them. No, I'm just saying the favorite things he was. Yeah, they one of my favorite reality show girls. I'm glad I went last, y'all, one of my favorite come on, come on, they can't get no worse. Oh no, girl, it was the Bobby Brown child. Everybody. No, that's a Bobby brow from boy. Everybody like the beginning of Bad Boys. He was humping and pumping. We were like, girl.

It was the waves for me. Okay, I know I had the waves, but y'all underestimated Bobby's waves from the very beginning, and his ways word deep and well cared for. Okay, it was nothing but Pelvi extremes. It was nothing but Pelvi extres. That's when I started becoming. But I just wanted to answer your earlier question. And shocked the world and tell y'all that the fan letter that I wrote was to a certain young lady who I had told I had got her recipe from her mask out of

a Tiger Beat magazine. I had went through a phase as a young girl. Um, and I would just like to shout out some Lissa Milano. Everybody was, what are you talking about? I mean she was, but she was definitely gorgeous as a young girl. Yeah, that poster was on my wall the Tiger Beat for me. Yeah, well, I had to get my Corey ham My Corey felt mean my River Phoenix, like you know, my parents had to have to sit down and talk with me for at one point in the headboard side and New Kids

on the Block poster. So it was her, it was, it was. It was a hard period. Fly. I'm sorry. Um, it made me who I am today. Oh honey, oh baby, oh baby, I want I said hanging tough earlier. I was joking. I was joking about hanging the tough. So you didn't know what New Kids on the Block side. Excuse me, excuse me, Let me rephrase a question here, Hey,

agent Jill, who is your favorite New Kids member? Nobody okay because they listen to that way, don't know you want to say space, it's okay, Um, it's gonna be a nobody because I didn't listen to that. I was very anti Oh yeah, I was audition and I was very upset when the rest of them came out and had this massive success. It was up from this is not a safe space. Okay, Jill, I feel the knife and now you're turning again. You're gonna call Lena Horn on me? Is that what you're gonna I'm just saying

that at the waters saying hell out of weather. I just toed stormy Weather. I just I once I saw that and I saw how deep and passionate she was about Stormy Weather. And then Lena Horn saying, everybody's like no, one's like, yes, she did a good job to job here Waters, what listen to me? I want you to undershoda. That's not even because he was like, okay, it's all right. I just have to be honest. I have to be honest. It wasn't a faith for me. I'm sorry. I was

a I was a new addition. Boys to mend jo to see me too, I like, I like it took me a while to do, Judy, See it's a good while because I was like, I don't know what's happening, Like I don't understand these feelings inside of myself. I don't know like something it's something like it's something like I don't know how to I don't know what to

do with that yet. And it was only one cute one and it was only one cute So, you know what, I'm not going to get to this conversation with you know what what you can't tell me, you can't tell listen. But there was a lot of artists that were just not like, you know, handsome, but they had something when they sang a side that's true. I mean, if you weren't think about it, a lot of the artists in the night, let's talk about surface. I mean we could

the seven going to the seven. You will definitely go into the sixties. You definitely could with them waves or whatever that girl was going on. But the girls did like that though. Back then they did like a good little three to the side, but they called it you little Tony Curtis little three to the side. The court is coming back, markma words, it tried tried to do it. That was a bad That was a bad bad but you date just I'm a classic man. He tried it,

He tried that. He tried that. He tried that, and he tried Usher tried it. Did he know? Yeah, he had a conk for a high second. The nineties conk was the current was like the s curl when they would just combing through. Yeah, more real talk after the break. I don't even care at the end of the day. Listen, okay, Joe to See is my favorite boy band of all times, all times? Whoa, whoa, that's hard. They're your favorite? What

band of all time? Boy band of all time? M So the Jacksons there like you out of the Jackson business. That was a little before her time. That's a good check. That's a good check. But I mean, I guess I was really more thinking about my childhood. You feel me? I feel like of all time does does include the Jackson's. They would be the greatest boy band of all time. But my favorite, my favorite is still Joe to See. She said what she said, I said what I said.

I was fourteen years old. My mother got me eighth Row Center, Constitution Hall to see Joe to see father and see opened he was okay. We went to dinner. The tickets dropped out of the car. Do you hear me? Dinkets dropped out of the car. I didn't know I was going. I thought I was listened. Thought I was going to the Saschwa house. You know what I'm saying. I was excited. I thought it was gonna get me some Sashua chicken, and it was gonna be a thing.

Opened up the birthday card, open up the birthday called. The tickets dropped out a row center for me and my best friend. Earlier in the day, she got us tickets to sit in the audience at video LP. Oh she was doing it and the guests for Joe to see. I have a picture of me and Dalvin why fourteen years old, losing my mind. But that was the gift. Yeah, house, I'm excited. I'm like I had met Joda. See I have pictures that have proof of school and everything. That's awesome. Yes,

you still have the picture. I still have the picture. Oh, I love it for you. I love for you. I mean, I'm One of my favorite things is watching audiences losing their minds. I want to see Steve Lacy recently, and I loved watching those girls and guys loose it. I loved it. I thought it was fantastic, singing every word and handed arms up in the air and you know all the things. Let me address the elephant in the room. What, ma'am, is this not the exact same experience that you have

from the stage. I mean, let me say that. Is that do you have to Well? You know what, I get a chance to see from a different, different, different It's a different thing. So you know, I took Jet and one of his homeboys to go see it. So watching them freak out because this is this is one of their guys. They freaking love Steve Lacy. They're both you know, his homeboy is definitely a young musician, and

you know Jet is singing. You know, I won't I call it, won't call him a singer until he decides it. What I'm saying not so he said so, But you know, just watching the two of them like air guitar at each other, I was like, yeah, what up? Enjoined that? That was nice. My son put me onto Kendrick Lamar early on, like the mixtage situations, and then when he

did the tour for t Pimpa Butterfly. We took him to and I was like, son, me and your dad, we do this for a living, and we don't know everybody, but we were buying no tickets to no consciences, and we bought these ridiculously priced tickets to go see him at at the Track of Darrow. Oh that's good, that's

good at the track. And we went there and um, that was the same experience, right, because at that point me and my son hadn't bonded like equals about a record, and we bonded over good kids, mad city, hard and so when we went to this thing, it felt like he was a fan and I was a fan in the same space and child me and we got down on the floor. We were in the in the middle on the floor with the children. Sounds crazy now COVID,

but it was definitely, you know, wild. We get in there and let me tell you U, the best thing of the whole night. And I have video of this favorite that's probably my favorite concert moment that I've ever had personally sitting in the audience. Yeah, I'm sitting in the audience with my son next to my son and Kindred goes. Um, it seemed like the whole city go against me every time I'm in the streets and go y'alla. Was the entire audience jumped up and down, ya ya

ya ya. I was like, it was all that I'm think about when we all see my artists like that. I was like, I think I feel like that. And it's my first time I heard Anson Paco. I don't know.

He's like my favorite artist in the past five years or so, at least consistently at least project by project and live consistently like energy, consistently like and not just that the extra neist because y'all know, I might require a little bit more out of my artists and so on top of you being spectacular and being able to play the drums, sing, do your thing, dance, entertained all these things. Yes, there was a time when I went to it. I've been a Minny Anderson shows, and I

went to one out in California. We were a minority, a black post was a minority, and he was about to do a song and I never will forget this.

Me and me and my boyfriend went together and uh, he says nigga like every other word right, And he was about to go into it and he was like, no, we're gonna go to the next song, and something in myself I was I was like oh oh, and then it was it was another time when it was another It was a festival and he was doing a concert and he invited the crowd some of the girls to come upstage and he said, where the black girls at back, girls come to the front. I was done. It was

my I was, you have me now for life. I'm I want you for life, even when you wear that wig, even through um where I'm still here. I'm here, I'm here. I mean, I have to say my favorite yellow artist have knowledge of past artists, that's who it's that. Yeah, because they're a bridge. They're a bridge from past to future. And I think that is so so so cool. I love that. I love that. I even love when Todd listened.

I was for a long time. I was telling everybody, you ain't heard this Tydle dollar Sign song a record, this record where he got baby Face Jagged Edge and uh it's somebody else with three different records of just like you would never imagine. And the way they came together it was thundercap. When he had my I was like, yes, you like exactly. There is fucking yeah, it's that bridge because that means that they have knowledge of another time of music. You know, that's your best musicians anyway. You

know you have to like that. Yeah, I thought it like that. Yeah, you know, you know we we've been talking about this in the past, Like you know, young artists will be like, I don't, I don't. I came up by myself, you know, I don't know about I didn't know anything about anybody else, all my ways of my own. And I'm like, yeah, okay, they still some people. You're always on the back. You're always on somebody's back, sir, even when you can't see them there there, You're still

there on them. They're they're flying around you currently. Okay, favorite female group who okay, Oh, and I'm gonna just say it because they don't get said enough. I'm gonna say it. Go in motherfucking Vogue. I'll just go say it because the flowers flower be minimal and I think it needs to be more. That's what That's what I'm saying that. I think that's fair original version. Okay, Okay, yes, for me, it's s WV that I was leaning. I

was definitely leaning there also, that's where I live. I feel like that there's a kind of a vocal sophistication that needs to be acknowledged. Come on, somebody with label. But now that's not fair, even though they're greats. Of course they are all legends, their legends, right, but very rarely do we put groups together where each vocalist is so distinct and can stand literally in a space where

they can be heard. And someone says that Sarah Dash is known to Hendrix, and of course that is paying the bell. Come on like that for me, even even though I don't want to go petty, because legendary makes it petty, right. I realized that, you know, because it was like the Jackson five moment. It was like that, you know, it's I may understand what you're saying that, right. It didn't feel good. It could feel a little petty, right,

but you know, contemporary I'm gonna go with me. But and and I'm going with as as W because I feel like, and this is actually bad. I feel like I can't say Destiny's Child because for some reason that feels too contemporary. Even though these chicks years they which iteration of Destiny's Child. I'll see well, I'm gonna say I love Michelle, but honestly, like I do love the original iteration of Destiny's Child, and I'm gonna go towards the second or third album when I say this, I

name part two the same that yeah, she said, yeah, yeah. Honestly, when you said it, that's the first thing that popped in my mind, and I think that's probably what we should go with. We could we love music on this podcast, so we can down forever, but we could pick it apart forever. But the Heart said as w V and Oh, I got a favorite question, I got a favorite. I'm gonna go with the heart favorite music question. I got favorite? What is your favorite genre of music that's not hip

hop or soul music? I'm taking them out, taking them out. What's your favorite? This is backlash for the new kids on the block. Oh it's not. I didn't you know. I don't think that hard. I didn't know. I just this was just I had something in my I had something in my mind that we got hard. Don't make the baby calls. Do not make the baby call for the podcast, please, you know how you gotta hold a

longer note just so you don't laugh. Good I really had said it because all my favorite thing list of notes I have made, I had like that one of my favorite things, it's bossing Nova, and I was curious. I was like, I just it makes you feel so good and sexy. Oh really, I am going to deep dive baby, so nice getting after that. Hold your Bartoe family like, get into all of them, Mama, daddy, daughter

like get like, yeah, get it. I'm excited. It's gonna be some some darker people that I need to mention, but damn it, I can't right now. But yeah, okay, okay, let me see of genres that I love outside of hip hop and R and B at R and B. You know, definitely like the blues. I definitely like the booze you give me on a Sunday and I bust out that muddy waters baby, I believe that makes me cook better. And I also see I like music, so we we all like music so much. It's hard to say.

I like the French cafe music, like like some old like like Josephine Baker. Yes, that's okay, I'm into it. Let me think I don't even know child. Everything I know is so it's all tied into black people. I'm trying to slide it be what it's always like everything we say. I listened to tons of afrobeat. I listened to that constantly. UM, and then they also too, I had to add on to my piano to that, so I listened to that a lot too. What's that? What's that?

So on? My piano is South African house music. Let me you're saying, I am a piano And I was like, all right. She was like, okay, baby, that's real nice. So who like you just let it out? Okay. She's like, oh God, Lord, why God today? I told you you know you hear this? UM? But yeah, definitely, I'm it's spelled A, M A, I'm A. Yeah, it's just I'm

A and piano. So it's just like that. But and then I listened to afrobeat, which is failor It's like the seventies funk soul African um energy, right, so it's more like a like that kind of energy. But then afrobeats is more contemporary hip hop, R and B soul version of the burner Boy is what afrobeats with an s okay but then burner Boy. But afrobeats also has

a lot of little subcategories. So you have some soul afrobeats, house afrobeats, you have hip hop afrobeats, so you might like whiz Kid and Da Vito might be one thing. But then like you have like DJ tunes, which might be something a little bit different, or you got like Thames or you know, like then there's a traditional like fail out like angel Ki Joe might do or something flies more like I said, afrobeat. That's a good time. And I want to say that this doll. I went

down this rabbit hole. A week ago. I was on the internets and I've seen this clip on I G of these girls called the Norns Sisters come On And it was a clip that went viral of them singing at an awards ceremony and literally it was like less than thirty seconds. But I was so impressed that when looking for them on Spotify and I'm obsessed. E spell it in O O R A N and it's Indian music. Oh where I see that? I was like, you ain't propped me, okay. I was, Oh, now we're going to

the other continent. I love it. Let's keep big, We're back, We're back to this continent. Um, I gotta tell you. I really, I don't know what genre this is somebody I'll call it pop. I don't know, but you can give me all the Senato O'Connor you want, and you can give me a lot. It's more set all that pop rock, right and um like Cranberry. It was my nineties era. Oh why can't I think of her name?

Oh the little little John blonde. You're not talking about a little and she she looks so young all the time, even though now she's like girl girl. Yeah, she married everything. I know, she's one. I'm thinking about Apple. Who you're talking about? Apple is not as a selling girl. And that first album right there, and she only had one of the first I think I only know about her only one record, and I'm not gonna assume she hasn't

made more. But I wasn't to her the songs that we were here in movies like Breakfast Club, like I got a thing for like the Breakfast Club, pretty impid, like all of those records, write them, them, them, the records. Ah don't play with you. Ah, that's the only song right now I know from because they were one Wonders. Yeah, yeah, but that that was quite a hit, huge, huge, so we we could all take a good eighties pop playlist. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Clark got a good one.

A matter of fact, I meant to stay he got a good eighties playlist. Um, I felt like there's a whole commercial, but that's okay. Canuse he deserved on Apple Music? Yeah, he do. He do some whole yacht rock kite stuff that I know. We all a fan of that too, like but it's considered now yacht rock. Yes, that's so funny, like the genres that have the e John Billy yol uh wham of it all like a yeah, I guess you were kissing step. Did you have an all time

favorite white man singer? Oh that's hard, Oh that's hard. I mean we did. Michael McDonald. It's the Michael McDonald for me. Yeah, I don't know Michael McDonald from Ferguson, Missouri. Yes, Wilder's Wilder's of course it was a different person. But I thought that was fascinating. Probably it was Hallow notes the BG's That's why I said, y'all think, wait a minute, I mean, really, just forget Queen. That's not forget Queen. And then George Michael because George Michael and just shout

out to Mercury that is safe for rum that man's voice. Yeah, even though he's not white, he is he is not white. Yes, that's what we're talking about. Freddy Mercury is not talking about his his his birth name, his birth the name, and like no, Freddy was yeah, yeah, it's a lot of white man. But George Michael, you know, it's dear and near to our hearts and so we should never I mean, he's just near dear. But I'm just say vocally for me, it's like what what we said. I'm

gonna speak with the heart, right. I know how to give respect, respect, okay to you, But my heart is on a Michael McDonald. It really is. You know, I tried to get it Michael McDonald's ticket, and this is one of them times I was like, you know what, I'm gonna just go on. This man's in the net and I'm I'm gonna get a ticket. That ticket was seven d and see how do I do that? Wow?

How do I do that? It's somebody else? I wonder if it would like Doney saying tickets when um oh yeah, but she did that that last that last Hurrah Baby, the Nosebleeds was two thousand dollars see last scrap. Yeah that one. That white boy thing is all right, man, I guess you want likes me a Selene Gian Okay, I enjoy I enjoyed it, but you know what I enjoyed seelean Dion. But to the uth, I got let me some Joe Joe man. I like a Joe Joe w B WV week Yes, consistent since a child. We

like it. But there have been some women, you know that come before her. Let's let's not forget the Tina Marie's and the tailor Danes. Just Taylor Dane. Do we give her something? This something? Do we give Taylor Dan respect? But ever, never ever forget Tina Marie's. That's it to be honest. That listen. That is party done. Mm hmmm. We're gonna take a quick break and then we'll be right back. Definitely. Another one of my favorite things is

the young dopeness. I'm enjoy watching the young dopeness like this is a like a rock chick. I think it's more like punk music. That she's done. Her name is Fushi or Fuschet. I just found her. I love I like I love I saw her lie first. And when I tell you that young woman, um not, she can sing honey, and those whistle notes that she was just enjoying and playing with and letting me for our listening pleasure. Huh.

I was like, Okay, Mommy's got it. Whatever it is, her own it, and I love her own it and I love to see it. Just somebody and I can't remember her name, and in my mind, I'm so angry with myself. It's it's the doe che for me is um well, I am really enjoying her her abilities. Yeah, she could, she could spit seeing she's she's very very much alive. She's gorgeous, you know. Um, I like all that stuff you might get a young woman. I like to see. I like to see. It's cool to see

who you're rocking with. So it's funny because I love the way I found these things in these places. And I spent a little time getting my hair done in this alignment one day and they had a tiny desk on just on loop on YouTube. So I found me a couple of artists that way, which is like one of the best ways. I think that's how I discover Chica. Oh yes, Chica of her, like love her, like blowing away with her and then like just on some visuals.

And I haven't been keeping up with her lately, but just when she first came out and blew and did like twenty thousand visuals and your music was like to the left, like just everything that Tierra Wack new, I just need to just just I just all your left nessis. I'll take all that left give me that. I do think she's pretty incredible. Yeah, I mean I could talk about some of the a few of the young ins that I like that my kids listen to. Now I

kinda I cannot first of all, old people I love y'all. Okay, I cannot promise that who I'm about to say has not said anything particularly off the chain, but I enjoy her. Her name is cash Doll. Okay, just wasn't respecting that. I like, I haven't heard a lot from being but I like the Bodeka. But I like that. That's that's got me. Jed was laughing at me yesterday because I was in the car just like on my way to

go to Walgreens, some old room. He he was like, you know, I wear my jewelry just to go to the Bodega. I was like, yeah, I like that. I want I want to wear my jewelry to go to the Baldeka. That made me feel nice. I like that. Anyway, Listen, we're just talking about our favorite things today. UM, this is this wasn't intended to be a music um a segment or portion of the show, but guess what it was.

We're always going to have music conversations. UM, don't dismiss this one because us we have we've we've had, we'll have mini. This is what we do. UM. We don't be feeling no type of way because when say you because we love you too. We just got bad memories sometimes, you know, would blame it on the smoke. Nig I'm just old. And on that note, thank you so much for listening to j dot podcast. Be good, yo'all. Hope to hear from me soon. But how do you eat

an elephant? One by it? Kind? Hey listeners, it's Amber the producer here as I want to be music head. This episode was so much fun, so much fun. I love hearing everyone's favorite music and music memories. We want to do something fun and make a jd IL playlists, So make sure you're following us on the socials at Jill Scott podcast on Instagram and at Jill Scott pod

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