Free Your Mind
En Vogue
1992
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Dit nummer van deze R&B groep is rock georiëntieerd en is de derde single van het album Funky Divas. De tekst staat als een huis: Beoordeel mij niet op mijn uiterlijk, maar op mijn innerlijk! De opening van het liedje: “Prejudice, wrote a song about it. Like to hear it? Here it go!” is afkomstig van de serie In Living Color en werd gezegd door het karakter Calhoun Tubbs.
De clip heeft diverse prijzen gewonnen, waaronder een MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance Video. Daarmee hebben ze Janet Jackson met That's The Way Love Goes verslagen.
Trivia
Artiest
Titel A-kant
Free Your Mind (LP Edit)
Lengte A-kant
4:10
Componist(en) A-kant
Thomas McElroy & Denzil Foster
Producer(s) A-kant
Thomas McElroy & Denzil Foster
Titel B-kant
Giving Him Something He Can Feel (LP Version)
Lengte B-kant
3:55
Componist(en) B-kant
Curtis Mayfield
Producer(s) B-kant
Thomas McElroy & Denzil Foster
Platenlabel
EastWest
Hoogste positie UK
16
Hoogste positie US
8
Album
Funky Divas
Songtekst
free your mind!!!!!!!!!
I wear tight clothing, high heel shoes
It doesn't mean that I'm a prostitute (no no no)
I like rap music, wear hip-hop clothes
That doesn't mean that I'm sellin dope (no no no)
Oh my, forgive me for having straight hair (no)
It doesn't mean there's another blood in my heirs (yeah yeah)
I might date another race or color
Doesn't mean I don't like my strong black brothers
oooh ooh ooh ooh
Why oh why must it be this way
aaah aah aah aah
Before you read me you gotta learn how to see me
i said
Chorus:
Free your mind and the rest will follow, be colorblind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind and the rest will follow, be colorblind, don't be so shallow
So I'm a sista
Buy things with cash
That really doesn't mean that all my credit is bad (ohhh)
So why dispute me and waste my time,
Because you think that the price is high for me
I can't look without being watched (you know)
You rang my buy before I made up my mind (auuw)
Oh now attitude why even bother
I can't change your mind you can't change my color
Why oh why must it be this way
Before you read me you gotta learn how to see me
repeat Chorus two time
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