MUSICAL REMINDERS

X'd my Mind =
Ever had a song or TV jingle suddenly go all auto-play on you in your head? 

You could be in the middle of vacuuming, styling your hair, at work, driving, grocery shopping, lip-locking, staring into space, whatever.  We've all got a mental jukebox you know. Some songs we could karaoke at the drop of a hat, some we can only humm and garble out the hook, or those tunes we've completely forgotten about until something or someone jogs our musical memory bank...

In retrospect, that "la da dee dow wow" (as it sounds) from the song "Gypsy Woman" on Crystal Water's 1991 album Surprise, never left my sub consciousness nor did the actual message of the song.   At any rate, something jarred its autoplay today.  Perhaps, it's the current state of our union coupled with my own sense of urgency within my personal life/career?  Naw... Maybe something I saw.  Who knows what moved the needle on this one, but I was pleased to have remembered it. 

"Gypsy Woman's catchy and [to some] annoyingly redundant hook, nagged folks on the serious issue of homelessness."

Gypsy Woman is an awfully good song (literally) and has thus taken its fair share of praise and criticism; hence, the In Living Color  parody of the song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTykohWAPRg). <---hysterically funny by the way... but on a serious note, "Gypsy Woman" is House music and repetitious hooks come along with the territory.  Also, for the record the "Gypsy Woman" track has been mixed & sampled countless times and still gets airplay to this day in clubs featuring House/Techno/B-More Sound, etc.  Besides, less was more in this case.  I venture to say the infamous hook's droll-drum, drag effect spoke to the state of the homeless woman and her quirky routine behavior inspite of her of desperate situation.  That's just my take on it but like Lavar Burton said, "Don't take my word for it."  Honestly, this is the only song I like from Miss Waters besides "100% Pure Love".  Overall, her music is quirky and falls under the catagory of those things we either love or hate.  Still, for all my fellow "Gypsy Woman" fans out there here's a socially conscious blast from the past...