Friday already? I decided to finally get around to featuring En Vogue today because I'm super excited about all the news I've been reading about their reunion. In fact, just this week the group, together for the first time since 1997, performed a medley of their hits at the Trumpet Awards. Whatever those are. The point is: THEY'RE BACK. I don't know if they plan on recording again, but just for a second, I felt like the world could go on spinning again. Usually I like to pick a song that's a big more obscure for the chosen artist, but I'm really in no position to deprive anyone of the monster smash "Don't Let Go (Love)"
Things to Note:
* How do I get to this party? It looks like it came out of a Sky Vodka ad.
* I am hypnotized by Mekhi Phiefer's shiny purple vest. It's telling me secrets.
* I remember loving this song in third grade (I'm telling you, the best year of life) and switching the channel back and forth whenever the video was on with a parent around. I was not willing to miss the song, but every time it flashed to one of the steamy scenes, I would go one channel down to CMT and then back on up to Vh1 in a few seconds. I also remember I bought this CD the first day of Summer Friendship Connection and carried around with me for some reason despite the absence of a CD player or any person willing to play it for a group of 7 to 11 year olds.
* Holy black lipstick!!! Dawn is killing them. Seriously. I don't care if she's the one who went and left for Lucy Pearl. She was always the best. And really, what chance did Lucy Pearl ever have? Outcasts from En Vogue, Tony Toni Tone and A Tribe Called Quest? If they were difficult in their own groups, how the hell were they going to work together?
* While I may be in the minority that likes the black lipstick (IT WAS A TIME PEOPLE!!!), I am not in favor of the trashy lip lick at :22 that makes the normally gorgeous Dawn momentarily look like Tiffany "New York" Pollard from Flavor of Love
* Cindy really has a big head. It's not just the afro-esque thing. It's just a giant head. I also always thought she came off pretty crazy and ditzy in this video. It could be that she sort of looks like Hilary from Fresh Prince, but there are also scenes of her (like at 2:22) where I think she has truly lost it.
* You know, whether it was the 60s girl group stuff in their earliest videos, or the House of Fashion aping "Free Your Mind" video, En Vogue always were the LADIES of 90s girl groups. TLC and SWV were big into the tomboy thing, but En Vogue always looked pretty. They also shared singing better than the others too. Everyone has a killer ad-lib section in this song (Maxine's being the most memorable).
*Some YouTube Comment Highlights (I didn't use the video though since the quality sucked and only had the version with clips from "Set it Off":
**** "i love this song!! i heard it when we were up in our 7th floor of our palestinian refugee camp at shatila in beruit lebanon. we blasted it!! it was on bbc music. this song rules and we saw the movie after the fact."
**** "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn this ma shit!!!! " (okay this one was actually mine. Just kidding)
* You think the guy would be more nervous that 4 women he'd been with are all together in black leather and heels pointing directly at him.
* If I'm going to argue they were the classy group of the 90s, I'm going to have to defend the make-out scenes. Ok, they're not great. But it's the difference between making out in a Rolls Royce compared to a Chevy Impala. Or a giant walk-in closet compared to a storage room. Do you see the distinction!?!
* Maxine's "righttttt......TA" at 3:16 is life changing.
* It's nice that they clap for them
I'll leave it to Claire to find some more interesting screen cap moments. And instead of a picture from the video, I'm going to show you a very recent photo of the group so that you can all be as weirded out as I am about how they seem to look like they are aging backwards
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