I am obsessed with Bobby Brown's My Prerogative.

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Please help me.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Give me other songs so that I can transfer my obsession.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WOULD RATHER HEAR "rOCK WITH'CHA"

― Chris, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't that one of those 'new jack swing' songs I've heard the kids talk about so much lately?

(Great song, I have to say. I vaguely recall that and Donny Osmond's "Soldier of Love" both being popular around the same time -- weird-ass combination.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Naw Ned its a Bobby Brown special from 88(?)

― Chris, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am tempted to buy a New Edition record.

Oh and Bell Biv Devoe sucked. Big time.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Naw Ned its a Bobby Brown special from 88(?)

I know. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"yo slick, blow"

"Poison" rules your world, you know you love it

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on, Stevie, "just live your liife .. "

― Dare, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I OWN NEW EDITIONS GREATEST HITS, CLASSIC. THE RALPH TRESVANT SOLO ALBUM HIS FIRST ONE "SENSITIVITY" IS FAB.

― Chris, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BB went off the rails when he did the Ghostbusters II song.

BBD's first album = grate.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

LATE 80'S R&B : S&D?

― Chris, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: BELL BIV DEVOE!!

― Keiko, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike, if I love the girl, who cares who you like!"

talk about chord progressions, check "Cool It Now"...

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OKAY I GIVE UP BELL BIV DEVOE DID ONE GRATE SONG. I am now listening to Casablanca Records on REPEAT, bastards.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

never trust a big butt and a smile

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'do me' is a highlight of my monster booty comp.

'don't be cruel' is a total party record! i must find a copy, as i only have it on tape at present.

― maura, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Timex Social Club: "Rumors"

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Candy Girl!!! poops all over the Jackson 5.

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"If It Isn't Love" = best thing to have evah come from the New Edition camp (solo, splinter, otherwise)

― Andy K, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

easy. listen to new edition's "candy girl" instead. you will never look back.

― queenoftheharpies, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's a tragedy for me to see the dream is ovah

and i never will forget the day we met

― Queen G of the lamenting anal labias, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"she's a gangsta" = very ridiculous and funny.

― queenoftheharpies, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Revive.

Don't Be Cruel was one of the first CDs I bought. "My Perogative" being the best on it.

"Yo, Teddy! Kick it like this!"

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i played it last week

Britney Spears has covered it for her forthcoming GH

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The video for this sounds horrible and awe-inspiring.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

teddy = teddy riley rite?

― jake b. (cerybut), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yep.

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I cannot imagine how much more awesome (i know, i know...hard to conceive of) this album would be if it were re-recorded today. Holy shit, what would, say, R. Kelly do with "My Perogative" or "Every Little Step"...

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd take T Riley late 80s production and Brown over R bloody Kelly any day

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

As long as Bobby doesn't rap, we're fine.

when I'mmmmmm....... rockin on the microphone
People gotta gotta gotta gotta leave me alone
Cause I really don't care, I really don't give a damn
{indecipherable line here}
My name is BROWN. That's what they CALL ME.

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

two hot to handle too cold to hold, they are the Ghostbusters and they're in control had em throwing parties for a bunch of children while all the while slime was under the building...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey fellas
What?!??!?!?!
Check out Mike & Bobby's little lady
ooooooh eeeeeeh
well check out Ricky & Ralph's
Ooooooh eeeeeeh
What about Ronnie's??
She's bad
She's bad
She's bad
I know she's bad

She walks so fast she looks so sweet
She makes my heart just skip a beat
My girl the best and that's no lie
She tells me that I'm her only guy
That might be true but my girl's the joint
She don't play around, she's right to the point
My girls like candy a candy treat
She knocks me right up off my feet

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the my prerogative remix is so bad.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Britney Spears has covered it for her forthcoming GH

I feel a great disturbance in the Force.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

does don't be cruel hold up well?

i remember really liking this record once upon a time.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

a britney spears GH finally?!?!

― amateru!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally? She only has the four albums.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but something about her ouevre cries out for a GH. it'll be the first BS album i'd actually buy!

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i think only Westlife have released a GH quicker

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ODB

(there are a million other examples)

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

uh?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

From mtv.com:

Britney Spears' next single, a cover of Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative," makes a statement about her life, and the accompanying video will too, making it clear that Spears follows no rules but her own.

The singer ignores streetlights and traffic laws as her sports car speeds up a dark road in the Hollywood Hills toward a hillside manor, which has an air of old Hollywood about it, according to a copy of the video treatment obtained by MTV News. A party is in progress, which the singer gladly disrupts, jumping the curb in her car, crashing through a fence and splashing into the pool.

That sort of thing might put a damper on most people's party plans, but Spears just crawls atop the car as it sinks and starts singing, "Everybody's talking/ All this stuff about me/ Why can't they just let me live?" (see "Britney Covers Bobby Brown's 'My Prerogative' For Forthcoming LP").

Her dress soaking wet and clinging to her skin, she steps off the car and goes into the mansion, giving partygoers a look that commands respect and fear. She passes couples making out on the couches as she makes her way into a stainless-steel kitchen, where gourmet food is on display. She grabs a butcher knife, walks across the kitchen brandishing the knife, and just as she steps out of the room, she cuts the straps off her wet dress, letting it fall to the floor.

While it's not clear if she's wearing anything now, Spears walks into a study, where a man sits in the dark with his back to her, watching a black-and-white film projected on a pull-down screen. It looks like a skin flick from the 1940s or '50s, but as he watches it, his cigar smoke curling up and illuminated in the projector beam, it becomes clear that the sexy footage is actually of Spears.

She then heads into a dressing room, where mirrors show all angles of her wearing nothing but her knickers, high heels, stockings and a short fur jacket, as she continues singing, "Why can't they just let me live?/ It's my prerogative." From there she heads into a bedroom, where a dress is laid out on the comforter. She walks toward the bed and away from the camera, letting her jacket fall to the ground. She holds up the new dress as the camera cuts to the party outside, where people are waiting, anxiously, for something, someone.

What they're waiting for, and what they get, will be the surprise of the video, which we won't reveal here. After all, it's our prerogative.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

80s Bobby/New Edition just fucking rules, man. RULES. I'm vaguely opimistic about the Britney cover because the 'Toxic'/'Showdown' boys, Bloodshy & Avant, are all over this one.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Fugees win - they had a GH comp after only two albums ...

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I own both the Bobby Brown Don't Be Cruel video comp AND the Bel Biv Devoe' Poison-era vid comp. BBD have crazier clothes but Bobby Brown's "now I am the star I was born to be" between-video interviews clips are priceless.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mentally hip-hop smoothed out on the R&B tip with a pop feel appeal to it...

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

From mtv.com

I feel like I've just had my brain replaced by slowly settling concrete.

(Remember how I suggested to Chuck that he didn't like Motley Crue because they were too macho for glam? I think I don't like Britney in general because she's too serious for camp.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I still have my cassette of Don't Be Cruel, it still holds up!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, she's like Showgirls -- of course she's camp.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The first BBV album is the winner. Bobby Brown, I dunno.

of course she's camp

No, that's why I mentioned the Motley comparison -- seems to be one thing, is another.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I will have to agree to disagree.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair nuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bobby Brown was a thug from day one, folks. In early New Edition videos you can see him try to cop feels ("Is This The End?") and physically harass adults ("Mr. Telephone Man").

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Even in "Cool It Now" he looked thugged out compared to the rest of the band.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Cripes, now that you mention it, I don't think I even saw any of those videos. Then again that was during the stretch of the early eighties we had no MTV.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The special guest in the Spears video is Snoop Dogg. I suppose he pimps her out.

― david day (winslow), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Special trivia question: name the initial New Edition reunion track available on the album WBBD - Bootcity!

hint: Vanilla Ice should have gotten royalites.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

NINJA RAP!!! Do I win?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

nope. c'mon! this video got played a bit on MTV. I remember it was part of the same "NEW VIDEOS" ad that featured "Radio Song."

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(Sigh) 'Hit Me Off'.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Which I still like a bit.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

NOPE!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Word To The Mutha! (Remix)" by Bell Biv Devoe (feat. Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill & Ralph Tresvant)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I ain't American, so I guess I was at a distinct (dis)advantage.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo vs. Bobby Brown - "A Boy's Prerogative (DJ Darwin Mashup)"

Courtesy th' Tofu Hut.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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