HAVE WE GOT 'SOMETHING IN COMMON'?

On my way to work this morning, I was listening to the song “something in common” by Bobby Brown featuring Whitney Houston and then I remembered that I recently read on the UK dailymail that BET’s upcoming ‘New Edition’ miniseries is in the making.

The miniseries will be based on the RnB band ‘New Edition’ and its origin. It is expected to be a hit series given the people involved in the production and also as the group was a band to reckon with in the 80s and given the fact that some of their songs can still compete with a lot of what is being played in our airwaves today.

Bobby Brown, a member of the group who is now about 47years old is seen in this picture as shown on the right with young actor Woody McClain who will be acting as ‘Bobby’ in the miniseries which will be directed by Chris Robinson. This picture was taken in Hollywood on Sunday outside the Madeo restaurant.

Prolific  Jesse Collins of  “Real Husbands of Hollywood’ sits in the position of the executive producer. Co-producers are members of the group in the real-life persons of Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, and of course Bobby Brown as well as Brooke Payne the manager who named the group ‘New Edition’ originally. 

The group is pictured here below (left) performing in 2014 while another picture (much lower on the right) shows Bobby and Woody on set the miniseries.

Now back to the song “something in common’ which occasioned the topic of this write-up.

‘Something in common’ as earlier stated is a duet by Bobby Brown and his ex as well as late wife Whitney Houston which was featured on Bobby’s 1992 album that was simply named ‘BOBBY’. The song was their first musical collaboration as a couple and as a matter of fact the only one released as a single.

Oh! That song!! Especially the way it starts with those beats at the beginning. I just loved and still love listening and dancing to it.

Watching the video and in some cases listening to both of them in that song made me feel like two different people entirely in their own world though with different habits and attitudes yet could actually live together as a couple. But alas! It was not meant to be as they eventually broke up. I guess they just couldn’t hold-up any longer. Phew! Speaking about elasticity here, right?

‘Something in common’ was released in the UK but it however only got some form of controlled rotation in the  US *still wondering why though* and since it was not released as a commercial single, it was as a result according to reports not eligible to chart on the ‘Billboard Hot 100 as well as the ‘Hot RnB Singles’ charts even though it peaked at number 16 in the UK, 32 and 30 on the ‘Hot 100 Airplay’ and ‘Hot RnB Airplay’ list in the US respectively.

As a teenager, one would play the cassette until it got twisted and even at that, you will find me pull out the twisted part, cut it off and seal back the ends of the cut parts and ‘yippee’  the tape was back in the radio again. Even though some parts of the lyrics would be lost as a result of the cut-out twisted parts, you bet, the cassette would still make a lot of sense to the listener.

Mehnnn! How I miss those days. Life was indeed beautiful. Now you understand why listening to that song gives me great memories of my youth.

Now when I look at Bobby, something in him still speaks volumes that indeed Whitney was his one true love even as he affirmed that in an interview some time ago. With Whitney, I think they both had a great career and an amazing lifestyle together.

Then again, even when he did “I’m your friend” on the same album ‘Bobby’ with Debra Winans, it was so obvious the song was an upshot from his love experience with Whitney. Gosh! The couple shared so much together.

The lyrics were top notched and, guess what! Those two songs mended a lot of troubled relationships back then. Don’t ask me for details *winks*. Yes, I was so young but I heard experiences of people whose relationships got healed just by listening to such songs.

Even though stories of their drug addiction was alleged to have precipitated their divorce, I think these two were great together regardless their age difference and all the negative stories ‘paparazzied’ about them. I wish the duo was able to work things out.

And if they did, maybe, just maybe Whitney would still be alive today giving us great songs and so would Bobbi Kristina, after all love they say conquers all. Guess love wasn’t enough in this regards.

Whitney and Bobbi Kristina, continue to rest in peace even as memories of you (Whitney) given the great songs you made will make you evergreen in our hearts.

And that’s it for now. You can join the millions of people who keep going back to listen to this ‘something in common’ song even as I dance away to it right now.

If you love the song as much as I do then it ultimately means "we've got something in common" as well. Smiles.