http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kBIGx6a9g&feature=related

I'm not scared of lions and tigers and bears (no I'm not)
But I'm scared of (loving you)
I'm not scared to perform at a sold out affair (that's right)
But I'm scared of (loving you)
Am I the only one who thinks it's an impossible task
Why it don't last? Is that too much to ask?
Why do we love Love,
When Love seems to hate us?

Sorry if I sound so filled with gloom.
You say you care, and I know you do...
But this is from my experience
And my conclusion only makes sense.
Just cause I love you, and you love me
It doesn't mean that we're meant to be.
I can climb mountains, swim cross the seas
But the most frightening you and me.

I haven't heard something so compelling since Lauryn Hill's evocative version of 'Can't take my eyes off you. This song soars along, making the listener know the inevitability of lions and tigers and bears...a fabulously rich song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4dSEyaT6R8

What you’re drinkin’
Rum or whiskey
Now don’t you have a…
Double with me
I’m sorry I’m a little late
I got your message by the away
I’m calling in sick today
So let’s go out for old time sake

This is delicious summer fun! Motown meets Ronettes and with a soaring joyous confidence that makes me want to take off my shoes and dance! Where are we heading? The beach -  take off those shoes honey!! And how the song introduces us to the wild rhyming...MISCHIE- VI- OUS truly!!  It also came on the radio in the sad 'bluesy' aftermath of a wonderful 10 month Master Practitioner NLP course with Peter McNab and Lynn Byrom. ''l'll  l never forget you.' MY SWEET JOY indeed!

Now where's that replay button......

My favourite song of the year with Duffy's Mercy! Who could resist the elation, the swinging joy of the chorus line..and the video is infectious, sexy and makes you want to head for a drive through...pink pouting all the way to the popcorn....and I have to say how Cheryl Cole does empathy better than anyone else on TV...luminosity, cheekbones and connection...NLP in motion!!!

You're gonna make me, make me love you, nothing at all, nothing that I do
Promise I made, promise I made, started to fade, started to fade, fade
You're gonna make me, make me love you, nothing at all, that I cannot do
Promise I made, promise I made, started to fade, started to fade.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S76h0ZpTXbg

The stage was alive with the purple light of pure camp magic! The audience was enchanted by floating crystal skulls and the Aussie Priestess of High Camp singing for her supper!

Sailors re-eancting some Gene kelly, Sinatra old movie with the help of John Paul Gaultier designed uniforms that had many a chap in the very throes of admiration...each song took the upbeat audience further into Kylie's world of staged magic....and the culmination of pleasure through 'On a night like this' and the powerfully affecting neo-ballad rendition of 'Believe'  ecstatic...

apparently this show has cost millions and the audience loved it..and Kylie's colourful series of personas that guaranteed I left smiling and with a skip in my step. -

Some enchanted evening...

Geisha girl to leather bikette with just a hint of Rampling's famous outfit in that film...

My daughter loved it and so did my friend.....

Go girl!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2orthS3TQ&feature=related

The best song of the year and the hypnotic insinuation of the 'yeah yeah yeah'  ensnares from the beginning. Something slightly metallic and edgy about Duffy's voice too and makes the audience compliant begging for Mercy Mercy Mercy!

Seductive 60s with edge of dominance!

A fabulous video too...narrowed eyes, slight swivel of the hips and a look of arrogance and disdain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjRYlZvOlQ&feature=related

Ever since I met ya, seems I can't forgetcha
The thought of you keeps runnin' through the back of my mind
Every time I'm near ya, I get that urge to feel ya
Just touchin' you and lovin' you makes ev'rything right
(Tell me how ya feel, baby)
I never knew love before (oh no)
Then came you, you, then came you
I never knew love before
Then came you, then came you
You

Now that I have found ya, how did I live without ya
(I don't know, baby)
It's plain to see you're all I need to satisfy me
I'm so darned proud of ya, I wanna sing about ya
(Sing it, sing it, sing it, baby)
All I know, ya made love grow by touchin' my hand
Oh-uh-oh I never knew love before
Then came you (you), then came you, ooh
I never knew love before
Then came you (ooh-ooh-ooh), then came you
Hey, hey, hey, then came you

A wave from Philly! Have always loved Dionne Warwick's voice..only rival to Aretha for me with her version of 'save a little prayer' ...captures perfectly the revelation of meeting a force of gravity ..'soul mate' ...'then came you' ...absolutely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ivz2RUdXY&feature=related

Since I met you I've begun to feel so strange
Every time I speak your name (that's funny)
You say that you are so helpless too
That you don't know what to do, do
Each night I pray there will never come a day
When you up and take your love away
Say you feel the same way too and I wonder what
It is I feel for you, you
Could it be I'm falling in love (witcha baby)
Could it be I'm falling in love (ooh, ooh)

How well does this match Duffy's Rapturous declaration of 'You' ?

YOU

Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head.
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.

Falling in love
is glamorous hell: the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger, ready to kill; a flame’s fierce licks under the skin.
into my life, larger than life, you strolled in.

I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone’s face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

as I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like gift, like a touchable dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXFOUQBRHE

One of the most alluring intros ever...loops back on itself..gets under your toes and replies to itself...demands to be turned up and up and up...enduring soul! fabulous!

Where Did You Come From Lady
And Ooh Won't You Take Me There
Right Away Won't You Baby
Tendoroni You've Got To Be
Spark My Nature
Sugar Fly With Me
Don't You Know Now
Is The Perfect Time
We Can Make It Right
Hit The City Lights
Then Tonight Ease The Lovin' Pain
Let Me Take You To The Max

[Chorus]
I Want To Love You (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You Need Some Lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender Lovin' Care
And I'll Take You There
I Want To Love You (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You Need Some Lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender Lovin' Care
I'll Shake You There

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdV7Kb1RG8Y&feature=related

Bought this twenty fifth anniversary version of Thriller and this elevates all your spirit and soul..toes to scalp!!!

Oh...the palpable buzz and  elation of love found and returned!!

Just played it for my dancing daughter...how can anyone resist Jackson's 'Pretty Young Thing' ????