First Time Hearing Teena Marie - Square Biz 

Saturday morning cleaning too🤣

Facts!

@@jerseygirl6221you ain’t lying Lol

The flex for real ….my mother would put her on to help me sleep when I was a child ..Portuguese love ❤

Vanilla Child ❤️❤️❤️

All they understand is mumble rap garbage!

The 80’s was nothing. Your generation is nothing. That’s all y’all use to do was ride around and get drunk all day, and listen to stuff like this .. Really? The 80’s was nothing. Then y’all sit up and drunk reminisce, old school Sunday and tell a bunch of lies, like we missed something. The 80’s was nothing!

My all time favorite song

@@yo3rdtier128 bro you good?

@@cianosullivan4096 LOL

@@yo3rdtier128 Yeah the 70’s was better and Teena was around in the 70’s

No doubt I’m 58 this takes me back to High School

Lol me too! So good to see! 😂

I know Teena Marie's god son she trained him on piano and he performes all over the world.

I'm 54 years old and this song came out when I was in the 6th grade! 😃

Gen X and Chicago in da house 🏠

Wow!

Correct, she born with it in her dna.

Teena described herself once as a black girl in white skin.

Nah that's cap she was a anomaly tye exception don't make the rule she was born with a that special gift and she was drawn to black culture even at a early age something tells me she had some black ancestry to be honest you know when someone is faking and she definitely was not it was natural for her like a moth to flame

@@calvinbrown2822 look up Taylor Dayne

Agree blow your mind

Oakland...saw so many concerts over there ...so sad there and SF is such a shithole now ...

She should have had a much more success!

God rest your soul Lady T! You left us too soon! And y’all are killing the soul train line. Big Momma going have y’all setting it off at the family reunion next year lol!

YES INDEED! I saw them there too...real music days!

Most definitely! Great list!

Excellent suggestions!

@Butter Bean Absolutely!

RIP Teena gone to soon

Didn't see your comment till after I commented on "LoverGirl".. " LoverGirl " The jam!!

AMEN 🙏🏽

@@tracymcnair1303 De Ja Vu. My all time favorite. I listen to it all the time

“It must be magic”

If I we’re a bell…. My personal fav! Teens was a gem.

I feel you. I thought I was the only one that choked up listening to this music. Reminiscing about those days. Music was so much fun. It made you want to dance, the sounds, the lyrics, the instruments, the vocals. Everyone United. Just Love❤

Was choking up while scrolling and saw your post! The memories!

Teena didn't have to appropriate; she was the real deal -- square biz!

Square Biz, baby!

Teena was on Soul Train about 13 times; other white artists appear one time, then bounce once they gain traction with the mainstream audience (Christian Aguilera, New Kids on the Block immediately come to mind). All this appropriation business came along in the 90s, when white artists figured out that pretending to be R&B was the ticket to mainstream; this during a time when R&B was pretty much mainstream. It was also a time when it was cool to be Black. But then gangster rap took over (pushing to the side conscious rap); slut rap entered the chat (Trina, and Cardi-B, Glorilla, etc); then came the drill music -- which I call 'kill music'. And the men rap in sticcato. It's no longer cool to be back. Hell, even the Kardashians know that now which is why they got ride of their BBL's, and Kim dated a white guy named Pete Davidson. You hardly ever see any white R&B artist now. But I thank the Creator for blessing us with this Vanilla Child, because her and Rick gave the Black community some great music, and very fond memories -- and that's square biz for ya, baby! LMAO.

@Swan Noir EXACTLY! Definitely had frauds back in the day but T wasn't one of them!

Oh my god, y’all cry about cancelling when it was alive and well back then too 😂😂😂 it was called “blacklisting” and if they thought you were a communist, you couldn’t work at all.

Same thing happened when Mariah Carey first came out

@@mayankingrevisited8815 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

@@mayankingrevisited8815 well Mariah is black, not the same thing.

@@POPJack1717 If you didn't see the vision of love video you didn't know what ethnicity she was

Wrong Rick James didn't discover Teena she was already signed by Motown in 1976 they didn't start working together until 1979

In my Isaac Hayes voice - "You daaamn right !!" You can say it again for the people lost in the Niggara Murrdara Music bubbles

Wow just said that was my favorite... that song is deep

My favorite song by her..Lady T is the truth❤

And Ooh La La La

Yeah! That's my favorite Teena Marie song

Fa real my favorite!

I didn’t see this prior to posting what I said, which is what you said…..love these young people for exploring different genres!!

That's it...!!!

@@debgibson1334 Now we gotta get them on some Stacy Lattisaw for real

@@kasheemblack2073 yes, stay, she was next favorite.

@@kasheemblack2073 + Minnie Riperton

They definitely wasn't ready for her and another one was Lisa Stanfield them two right there oh My Goodness Oh my Lord I was totally in Love

They wasn't ready at all

💯

Yes, indeed.

That song "Happy" 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I heard Rick James told her that if she didn’t get to the studio “Right now” (even though she was sick), he would get someone else for the duet. So she got down there and a classic was made. She’s a legend indeed.

I know I so miss her ❤️

Vanilla child

Im from philly, my mother played this day in and out...Young love and must be magic are my favorites. Oh and lover girl

Amen 🙏

Lotsa babies were ordered while Portuguese Love was playing...

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Great song!

@ Mary Goodson Ms . Marie was very alluring and sultry to my eyes , I think she was ahead of her time in terms of being able to appeal to what was at the time known as "black radio " as a non black artist . Ms. Marie will forever be considered an R&B legend who could hold her own with her contemporaries , that said making more "pop " style songs may have gained her more mainstream success but could have possibly diluted her music . Now bring on Robert Palmer , the first Power Station album is still in my rotation .

The music business establishment wants to keep black and white people separated. They won't support a white woman signing anything other than pop or country. Tina was too great to completely silence but they held her way back.

Portuguese in love me and my wife’s favorite TM song

@SunFlower State of Mind Some Like It Hot is a jam!

Naw. Teena said the label wanted to turn her into something she wasn't, and she wasn't going for it. They wanted to make her into a pop chick, but soul and R&B was where her heart was. She refused to compromise -- or 'sell her soul', and I respect her for that.

I grew up with music when it wasn’t auto tune it was voice…

She was with out on the road with The Rolling Stones for years.

The live version is beyond insane. Way before Mariah Carey. Outstanding vocalist.

She preferred singing backup for the Rolling Stones & Luther Vandross. She didn't like the limelight as a solo act.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yes!!!! I love that song!

Well, to be honest, there was also Beethoven and Rachmaninoff but I digress.

She was good but not enough to say there will never be another voice like hers Amy winehouse Anita Baker sade and atleast 10 more

No she didn’t and that’s a shame.

Oh wow this is so hilarious I can't wait to do the reactions and cap and what does that mean from their era which is now yeah old lady gang baby

basically yt

@@coreymyers7409 Yeah, pretty much lol 🤣

@@angechrisman1694 like... totally 🤣

@@AirTeethREAL I mean she looked white lol. Portugal, Italiy and Ireland are european countries and being Puerto Rican doesn't automatically means you are a "POC" . They are white, black, mestizos (spanish mixed with indegeneous), mulattos (african mixed with spanish) type of Puerto Ricans. And I doubt that Teena Marie had a high percentage of Native American ancestry either. She was white and had soul. It is what It is lol 🤣

@@angechrisman1694 😁😁