#so into you

[bluesucanuse]

BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION

THE SONG IS: "SO INTO YOU"

#ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION #SO INTO YOU #SOUTHERN #BLUES #ROCK

[jhericurldrippin]

Tamia, So Into You, 1998.

#tamia #90s #90s rnb #90s beauty #90s black women #black women #black beauty #famous black women #blackgirlmagic #so into you

[feralchaton]

#so into you #Atlanta Rhythm Section #meintoyouyouintomemeintoYOU #Spotify

[musictyme]

Fabolous ft Tamia - So Into You

#fabolous #tamia #so into you #music #2003 #hip hop #rap #street dreams #throwback

[djevilninja]

Childish Gambino covers Tamia 'So Into You' for Like A Version

Apparently, I’ve been sleeping on this for 7 years like some kind of chump. Also didn’t know my man could sing like this.

#like a version #childish gambino #donald glover #tamia #music #RnB #10s #groove #performance #so into you #so into you live

[azsdiary]

This is an exposition of my once broken heart

[press play, then read]

This song is so beautiful I had to look up who it was inspired by. Who was worthy of it?

The last time I did that it was with “Complicated” by Nivea and I found out the man she wrote it about she divorced shortly afterwards.

In the lyrics of Complicated, Nivea sings that her friends warned her this isn’t how love is supposed to go but she ‘refuses to believe’ because she’s convinced the red flags turning green is really happening to her. She states this love was life giving her something back, like she was owed it. And then declares her love before a sad guitar solo. The song even opens with the sound of rain.

I used to cling to that song as the ultimate love song. I see it as the antithesis of ‘So into You’ - so we can use it to explore how my mind’s view of love has matured by contrasting these songs against one another.

‘Complicated’ even by the title sounds like a sad song. The long rain sound opening and entire vibe of the song is completely sad sounding. How could it have been my ultimate love song of choice?

Because that was the love I knew. Love inseparable from toxic complications, doubts of commitment and a sad love that said ‘I’ll prove them wrong these red flags actually have a perfectly good explanation. They’ll see.’

I know this post is God. This morning I just happened to see this throwback of Lauren London pregnant- with lil Wayne’s child?! I never knew that happened… then now, looking for Nivea’s muse I find out she was pregnant by Wayne at the same time as Lauren. All in the same morning. Wayne was the complication she sung of when comparing him to her muse in ‘Complicated’.

One of the biggest red flags of complicated as a song was the lack of description of the muse she was in love with. It sings of a fairytale where only the woman’s journey is described. There’s no reason given for why she loves him or even if he loves her back. It sounds like a love that takes place in the singers head. Thinking and dreaming about him in her head all day, but no stories to sing of to match.

All we know is he made her his wife. The entire rest of the song is not bout him at all. As if there was nothing to say.

Tamia sings of thoughts of him running through her head but also of the real life reflection of how he is actually worth these thoughts.

Psalms shows when you love someone there’s a lot to say about what they’ve done.

It sounds like Nivea’s in love with the feelings she gets from thinking he loves her and repeats how she loves him will do whatever he asks, Tamia sings she loves what he’s Done to her and how he makes her feel is right. But also about ‘how you speak to and hold me. And you love me.’

Tamia sings of dreams too but also that they’re together firmly in the very next sentence and is aiming for a committed love.

Tamia sings let’s stay together - a combined effort, Nivea sings I’ll never let you go as if she’s the one holding them together

Nivea sings that she has no idea what’s happening or what he’s doing and is just grateful he’s in her life. That love is magic it can’t be described. Tamia sings that she can’t explain it but she is awake and aware of what he does and sees that what he does is good.

Nivea sings she dreams about him all day. Tamia sings he’s a dream come TRUE. It moved beyond fantasy of his potential - it was real love manifested in reality.

So I thought Love was something I was owed from the same man for the pain I would go through to stick by him despite the trouble and pain he put me through, correcting and improving him along the way.

Can I expose him for a second? His thoughts are thrown up in my mind for years to come. I feel nothing but I know how poor he was now. Poor in the mind. Poor in the heart.

“I would never call my wife or gf beautiful, that’s just not how I operate.” Never apologised for leaving me up waiting for calls several times, Late into the night. Said he finally decided to stop being petty only bc he realised being petty is a woman’s thing. Said wives obey their husbands bc they know if they disobey there’ll be consequences. He was colorist. Genuinely thought his country was supreme to others of the same race. girls are replaceable. Left me in a 3y unclear talking stage, had a rumoured gf for part of the first year that I had to find out about myself when he just said she was his prom date, announced he lost his ********* since after we started talking on livestream just after I joined. Told me id get no where in life overthinking when I explained how I felt. Said women are just another h** until he’s met their family. Thinks women can never be needed (marriage), just added to a life optionally.

When I told him I described some of his behaviour to a friend who said he would use me and discard me his reply was “Even if I did that’s none of their business it’s nothing to do with them.“

I was Nivea.

2.

They Don’t Know - Jon B is the male answer to Nivea’s Complicated. A man expressing how her friends are just jealous and he is a player but he just happened to quit when he met her. It used to read love to me but it sounds more to the tune of gaslighting, now. It was the voice I listened to, to reaffirm that he would change for me. Because the man I listened on behalf of would never tell me himself.

I thought he would change because I prayed enough for it. Because God wanted him to, I thought. I just had to hold it together for a while whilst he breaks me. Not God, him. No. That’s trying to love someone but it is not Love. If you’ve seen that Bruce Almighty scene then you know you can’t change someone who chooses to remain the same willingly.

3.

& now, our happy ending.

“So into you” is the only expression of stable committed love song I know by a female voice. The rest have an air of uncertainty like full commitment is still in question. Like best part by H.E.R “won’t you give yourself to me?” As if all was not already given. Listen closer to the lyrics of your favourite love song. Is It healthy?

Tamia sings of a Stable Love that she has already and wishes to continue, that she loves and is loved in action and word. Heaven sent.

It opens with the most beautiful warm sound and carries into a slow beautiful stable melody that sounds so relaxed. Like a warm day.

And who did this worthy man turn out to be? A fine then NBA Star, man of God who stuck though his wife coming 25 years now through illness and challenges on both ends. Real Love.

Of course - a marriage built on Christ can only stand. He invented it.

I’m praying for it.

Outro: well I came here to try and write about the new in my life which I wasn’t able to express and I guess the exposition of my heart up until the present which I then stopped at instead- and still can’t write about - shows I still can’t. But I love what I wrote today. I didn’t know what was happening to me I was so confused and darkened about love but these 3 years I’ve Studied Gods word I can see that I know that He is love. And so I know so much clearer what Love is.

1 John 4:7-12 “Whoever does not know love does not know God because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us; He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him.”

#nivea complicated #the-dream #2000s nostalgia #black girl diary #black it girl #heartbreak #healing #black love #toxic relationship #toxic love #healthy love #y2k black girl #lauren london #khloe kardashian #Tamia #grant hill #so into you #2000s rnb #love and hip hop #lil wayne #Jon b #they don’t know #2000s aesthetic #y2k #2000s black culture #black culture #christian girl #music studies #Black culture article #toxic masculinity

[quitecontraryy]

I think you're truly something special

Just what my dreams are really made of

Let's stay together, you and me boy

There's no one like you around

#tamia #so into you #1998 #Spotify

[pinakikinggan]

#childish gambino #english #so into you

[theorajones]

This song is 20 years old this year. Time has lost all meaning. 

#musical monday #fabolous #so into you

[letthiscomecrashingdown]

I really like what you've done to me

I can't really explain it I'm so into you ✨

-So Into You, Tamia

#personal #me #selfie #asian #effyourbodystandards #effyourbeautystandards #fat babe #self love #vscocam #confident #letthiscomecrashingdown #vsco #woc #PoC #chubbygirls #tamia #so into you #rnbabes #asiangirls

[yellodisney]

#youtube #tamia #so into you

[dreams-of-mutiny]

#so into you #music #spotify #atlanta rhythm section

[cemeterything]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

#🐉 #human rules is you can go nuts show nuts but so can everyone else

[whiteshipnightjar]

Zoozve, my beloved

#i cannot tell you how much this made me smile just bc it's so full of love #moon #venus #zoozve #long post #sorry about that it's very long but it's very entertaining i hope you enjoy this lil zoozve gem haha #astronomy #astrophysics #space

[sunbentshadows]

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

#information death of the internet etc #legit this has been SO SO helpful #shout out to mastodon infosec server for this one #before 2022 we did not really have the AI-content-farms because. the tech did not exist to the public. #and you can knock back the date if need be #obviously this does not FIX the problem but #me.txt

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week