no, not sorbet, sherbert

I Love Your Smile-Shanice

i decided to write a little about the 80's...that's the decade where i discovered music (this song might be 90's, but its on the edge). This song is pure sugar. Its like those pixie sticks. Or when i went to swim meets and people were eating raw flavored jello with their fingers out of the box for "energy." Or maybe even better, like orange sherbet. Its a sweet little confection...a little toothache waiting to happen. I think Shanice's career lasted the entire 4:19 of the song, but no matter. Its a great 4:19.

I mean, i love your smile, is there a sweeter sentiment than that? The songs has some great moments (um, its best to not speak of the rap, i just act like that part doesn't exist). First off, everytime she sings "smile" you smile (although at the end she says "psyche" which always makes me think she's fucking with some poor dorky kid but i think thats reading way way WAY too much into it).

And of course, the songs opening "da da da" is adorable.

Hands down best moment...i call it the Nobel Prize in Literature moment features this lyrical couplet:

The clock at work says three
and i wanna be free
free to scream, free to bathe, free to paint
my toes all day

[right here i have to jump in and just say "Um, what the fuck. You can't BATHE?". Someone call OSHA]

My boss is lame you know, and so is the pay

and then, the moment

I'm gonna put that new black mini on my charge anyways.

So in other words, so i can't bathe and i am oppressed at work and not allowed to scream (??), it all comes down to a skirt

Whoever wrote that should go to heaven. its brilliant in an insane way they never need to write anything again. And quite honestly, they never never should.