I literally was just talking about this Anita, Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder when I heard that blasting in the living room on a Saturday it was time to wake up and start cleaning 😂
Yeah, ya'll cuttin up today! This has been a great Tuesday for me! Amerie, Rachelle Ferrell, and now the LEGEND Anita!!!!!!! Somebody pour me a glass of red, right NOW!
Fun fact: Toni Braxton was the artist who sang demos for Anita Baker because of their similar signature deep voices. She sang a song for Anita titled “Love Shoulda Brought You Home” which Anita heard and insisted that whoever is singing the demo should have the song. It became Toni’s first solo single in 92, and the rest is herstory!
Toni has closest in tone IMO (though Anita is a mezzo soprano, her lower register is amazing). Anita is legend beyond her many hits because she also wrote and produced many of her songs and one of the first artists to take control over her work. Her first album in group was in late 2970s, long before Toni B.
Anita Baker is an R&B legend! Everyone in my family who got married in the 90's, this was their wedding song! And a black family reunion was incomplete until you heard this song, and the song, "Before I Let Go" by Frankie Beverly And Maze.
Anita Baker is nostalgic to all our childhoods the memories of all our moms playing her music Saturday mornings while cleaning is a shared black experience 🥰🥰🥰🥰
OH THANKS BOYS... Make me feel every bit of my 62 years. I adored this woman, and still think she has one of the most amazing and soulful voices of all time.
@weeklytop5 Joe and Mike, Anita Baker also reminds a lot of us Saturday morning cleaning the house. (IYKYK) Or like you said on Saturday’s live this was Quiet Storm gold. This week is going to be an amazingly beautiful and sound sonic week for you both.
Accurate! We all have that Saturday morning cleaning soul/r&b playlist. So grateful our parents did that for us. To have those memories and music so embedded in our souls is such a privilege.
Black Wedding song! I have been to so many weddings with this song. When it came out it was the bridesmaid song ALOT or the 1st dance. I still hear it occasionally in the younger generation. Love personified!
Yes !!! I straight up grew up listening to this woman as she was an all time favorite of my mother's. I still remember waking up and hearing Anita's voice first thing coming from the living room; my signal that it was Saturday morning. And as a black girl that meant one of two things, cleaning up the house day or hair day. Honestly makes me miss my childhood and I was born in '99.
Funny you mentioned a 90's sitcom. Anita sang a version of the theme song for the sitcom "Mad About You", which starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. Reiser composed the song and played piano.
Finally. Love love contemporary jazz. Anita Baker made me fall in love. Her voice is so silky, it's the best way I can describe it. You should try Will Downing " Wishing on a Star, I Go Crazy, and I try."
A whole week of Anita?! My mother's favorite singer. I love listening to her to feel closer to my mom since she passed. Such a classic voice. Jazz is all in her throatbox lol
Anita has some great ballads. The crown jewel in her musicology is the Compositions album. From start to finish, it's an eponymous mix of ballads, up tempo and soulful songs. Fairytales, the last tune on the album, is like listening to a live jam session between her and the musicians.
Fairy Tales & Talk to Me are the stand out tracks from Compositions (1990). Rapture (1986) & Rhythm of Love (1994), however, are much better, more consistent efforts overall with less filler.
Fun fact: babyface wrote "Love should have brought home last night" for Anita Baker but she declined and suggest the girl singing the Demo sing the song and that became Toni Braxton First Single off my fav movie Boomerang!
Fellas I so appreciate this reaction..ms Anita Baker ushered in a kool layed back soulful introduction to that generation of music listeners who were heavily in Rap..We actually began to listen to lyrics .I've actually met ms Baker a few times and had beautiful conversations with her long after her heyday and she equally as beautiful on the outside as she's on the inside. Since you have her on the radar checkout the video of hers BODY&SOUL.. Ohh try SADE Stronger Than Pride..late 80s and 90s music even early 2000s the lyrics changed your mood and it was almost always about Love.. Thanks
A whole Anita week...I could cry (I won't but you get what I mean). One of my all-time favourite singers. I have hopes to see particular songs on the list but since it's Anita I'll enjoy either way. Y'all are in for a treat!
I find it insulting when people say they don't know Anita Baker🤣 ... She's LEDGENDARY, in the black community. I'm glad yall are listening to her, nice reaction ❤
So glad you are listening to ANITA now! And that you're enjoying her. She's fabulous! Can't wait to hear the rest of the week (I hope Fairytales is going to be on the list) 😀
I’m exciteddddd about this week! I’m in my early 30’s and blast her music like it came out yesterdayyyyy….Sunday morning cleaning session in my house was serioussss….can’t wait to see what’s next😊
I was not a ballad guy when this song came out (I was 16 lol) but for some reason I really got into this song. I always loved the simplicity of the video.
You guys… even if you hadn’t said anything after the song ended, just seeing your happy faces while listening would’ve been enough for me. It really did my heart so much good. Your hilarious and complimentary commentary is just a bonus. ♥️
This is why the 80’s is the best season of rnb to me. Some of the best vocalist, most original orchestrations, and epic talent came from this time. Don’t get me started on my conspiracy theory on the downfall and takeover of rnb music in the music industry.
Ngl, kinda gagged they're dipping into the Bakery. So many smooth gems. Rapture (1986) & Rhythm of Love (1994) are by far her best, most consistent albums. Does this mean we're also getting closer to a Sade week?
Idk if anyone said it but she actually did sing the tv show theme for Mad About You, the song is called Final Frontier by Paul Reiser. 😂 I thought it was funny yall mentioned that
Now wait a damn minute!!!!!! Anita THEE Baker?!?!?!?! Say what now?!?!?! C'mon boys! I'd like to bow down to the donor for introducing our guys to this tiny powerhouse. 'Sweet Love' (I'm assuming that's on the list?) is gonna take Mike & Joe out! 🍷🎤📻🎶🌆
I'm not sure if you boys are being "ironic" (that is a "thing" with your generation), but r&b music was so much better back then and did not suck like it does now. If you have ever heard of "yacht rock", Anita Baker's music and much of r&b ballads back then were basically, the soul version of "yacht rock". Smooth, relaxing, easy listening music...
This song was released in 1988. I think you have the '80s confused with the '50's and '60s in terms of smoking. According to Cummings KM, Proctor RN. "The changing public image of smoking in the United States: 1964-2014." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Jan;23(1):32-6.: "After a steep increase in cigarette use rates over the first half of the 20th century, adult smoking prevalence rates started declining from their peak reached in 1964. Improved understanding of the health risks of smoking has been aided by the United States Surgeon General’s Reports, issued on a nearly annual basis starting in 1964...In 1966 the first cautionary label appeared on cigarette packs, stating that cigarette smoking “may be hazardous to your health. The warnings were updated in 1970 and again in 1985...In 1967, anti-smoking advertisements began to air on television as part of a Federal Communications Commission Fairness Doctrine ruling requiring broadcasters to run an anti-smoking advertisement for every cigarette ad aired...Cigarette ads were banned from television and radio in 1971...Evidence regarding the health consequences of secondhand smoke strengthened in the 1970s and ‘80s, and policies limiting where people could use cigarettes became more common...The 1988 Surgeon General’s Report helped to further stigmatize tobacco use. The report examined why people persist in smoking despite recognition of its harms, and concluded that smoking was not just a “habit” but was in fact addictive in ways similar to the dependency-creating powers of heroin, cocaine and other drugs of abuse."
the voice who told generations of black kids on Saturday morning that it was time to clean. Lol. Anita ran so Toni the Tenor could fly.
I literally was just talking about this Anita, Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder when I heard that blasting in the living room on a Saturday it was time to wake up and start cleaning 😂
#FACTS! My daughter says she immediately smells bleach and Ajax if someone plays this on a random Saturday! 😅
Yes!! 😂
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Yeah, ya'll cuttin up today! This has been a great Tuesday for me! Amerie, Rachelle Ferrell, and now the LEGEND Anita!!!!!!! Somebody pour me a glass of red, right NOW!
Yesssss I love it 😂😢❤
Yes! Making my way to the queens Amerie and Rachelle immediately after this! Can’t wait!
Fun fact: Toni Braxton was the artist who sang demos for Anita Baker because of their similar signature deep voices. She sang a song for Anita titled “Love Shoulda Brought You Home” which Anita heard and insisted that whoever is singing the demo should have the song. It became Toni’s first solo single in 92, and the rest is herstory!
Toni has closest in tone IMO (though Anita is a mezzo soprano, her lower register is amazing). Anita is legend beyond her many hits because she also wrote and produced many of her songs and one of the first artists to take control over her work. Her first album in group was in late 2970s, long before Toni B.
thank you so much for inside info, makes sense🙂😊i loved anita back then and respect what she's given Now.
We call this grown folks music
Anita Baker & Sade were the jazzy, classy counterparts to Whitney & Janet
COOL COMPARISON! SO TRUE!!
ABSOLUTELY!!! They held down that Jazzy Soul Subgenre 💯🎵🎶
ABSOLUTELY!!! They held down that Jazzy Soul Subgenre 💯🎵🎶
These guys must know these songs!
The original of the original ... Before a Toni Braxton...We had Anita.
Anita week?! Oh we getting real blackity black 😂 I love to see it!! ❤❤❤
Ms. Anita Baker's voice is just so soothing! The fact that she wrote a lot of GREAT hits.
Anita is a legend in r&b been around since the 80s .
Anita Baker is an R&B legend! Everyone in my family who got married in the 90's, this was their wedding song! And a black family reunion was incomplete until you heard this song, and the song, "Before I Let Go" by Frankie Beverly And Maze.
Girl, you are so right. I remember going to 6 weddings in the 90's and heard this song at all 6.
I love this song. Anita Baker has one of the best voices out there.
This is my favorite song from her what a queen
One of THE greatest voices ever‼️
Anita Baker is nostalgic to all our childhoods the memories of all our moms playing her music Saturday mornings while cleaning is a shared black experience 🥰🥰🥰🥰
OH THANKS BOYS... Make me feel every bit of my 62 years. I adored this woman, and still think she has one of the most amazing and soulful voices of all time.
One of the best meditation songs after a long day from work or a stressful day, with a glass of wine. Love, Ms. Baker.
@weeklytop5 Joe and Mike, Anita Baker also reminds a lot of us Saturday morning cleaning the house. (IYKYK) Or like you said on Saturday’s live this was Quiet Storm gold. This week is going to be an amazingly beautiful and sound sonic week for you both.
Accurate! We all have that Saturday morning cleaning soul/r&b playlist. So grateful our parents did that for us. To have those memories and music so embedded in our souls is such a privilege.
Summer weekend family gathering 🖤 I can see my parents dancing now
Black Wedding song! I have been to so many weddings with this song. When it came out it was the bridesmaid song ALOT or the 1st dance. I still hear it occasionally in the younger generation. Love personified!
She's a queen of "smooth jazz "
My all time favorite Anita Baker song.
Anita Baker = Home! 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
Yes !!! I straight up grew up listening to this woman as she was an all time favorite of my mother's. I still remember waking up and hearing Anita's voice first thing coming from the living room; my signal that it was Saturday morning. And as a black girl that meant one of two things, cleaning up the house day or hair day. Honestly makes me miss my childhood and I was born in '99.
A little Anita will definitely set this party off right! 😍
@@itsdeonn Aaaayyyyeee 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽 Jamie Foxx slayed that chorus! And Kanye slayed the production!
I literally listen to Anita Baker on Sat mornings when I clean because that’s what my family did growing up.
Yes my mom and childhood remember hearing her on the kitchen radio mom would be cooking and cleaning.. the world was better back then than now
This song reminds me of falling asleep during the quiet storm on r&b radio in the '90s.
I love that you guys did Anita ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is my favorite right here!
Your introduction to Anita Baker should have been "Sweet Love", her biggest hit.
Maybe. I hope you enjoy the rest of the week anyway.
They’re probably saving it for later weeks. There’s no way you can do an Anita Baker week without Sweet Love!
@@BSu-ym5mo Facts
Annnnniiiiitttaaaaaaaaa!! ❤
Funny you mentioned a 90's sitcom. Anita sang a version of the theme song for the sitcom "Mad About You", which starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. Reiser composed the song and played piano.
Finally. Love love contemporary jazz. Anita Baker made me fall in love. Her voice is so silky, it's the best way I can describe it. You should try Will Downing " Wishing on a Star, I Go Crazy, and I try."
I wish black music today sounded like this. I’m so grateful that I was born in the 70’s and was a child of the 80’s
Heyyyy thanks Kitt’s!!
Yall ain't readyyyy❤❤❤❤😅😅🎉🎉🎉🎉👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I absolutely love Anita Baker! ❤
Anita’s lyrics are always so loving and romantic. 🥰
A whole week of Anita?! My mother's favorite singer. I love listening to her to feel closer to my mom since she passed. Such a classic voice. Jazz is all in her throatbox lol
Mesmerizing! 10 out of 10 on vocals, lyrics, production and everything else.
Legend!
Thank you guys so much for this! Anita is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Anita has some great ballads. The crown jewel in her musicology is the Compositions album. From start to finish, it's an eponymous mix of ballads, up tempo and soulful songs. Fairytales, the last tune on the album, is like listening to a live jam session between her and the musicians.
Fairy Tales & Talk to Me are the stand out tracks from Compositions (1990). Rapture (1986) & Rhythm of Love (1994), however, are much better, more consistent efforts overall with less filler.
@@kaylad4486 It's two words.
This is a full grown woman, her music is mature, and I love it. Velvet voice.
Fun fact: babyface wrote "Love should have brought home last night" for Anita Baker but she declined and suggest the girl singing the Demo sing the song and that became Toni Braxton First Single off my fav movie Boomerang!
Ahhhhhhhh.... Anita Baker is sublime. 😍❤
Had the pleasure of seeing Anita perform at the Corn Palace up in Mitchell back in 87.
❤ Anita Baker!
Fellas I so appreciate this reaction..ms Anita Baker ushered in a kool layed back soulful introduction to that generation of music listeners who were heavily in Rap..We actually began to listen to lyrics .I've actually met ms Baker a few times and had beautiful conversations with her long after her heyday and she equally as beautiful on the outside as she's on the inside. Since you have her on the radar checkout the video of hers BODY&SOUL.. Ohh try SADE Stronger Than Pride..late 80s and 90s music even early 2000s the lyrics changed your mood and it was almost always about Love.. Thanks
That voice! My goodness, that beautiful voice! I'm a fan since the 80's.
Childhood memories 🥲
A whole Anita week...I could cry (I won't but you get what I mean). One of my all-time favourite singers. I have hopes to see particular songs on the list but since it's Anita I'll enjoy either way. Y'all are in for a treat!
Oh YASSS!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Awesome ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I find it insulting when people say they don't know Anita Baker🤣 ... She's LEDGENDARY, in the black community. I'm glad yall are listening to her, nice reaction ❤
Anita Baker week Lets gooo!!!! "Noone in the world" better be up there lol
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So glad you are listening to ANITA now! And that you're enjoying her. She's fabulous! Can't wait to hear the rest of the week (I hope Fairytales is going to be on the list) 😀
Oh come on, that voice! ❤
Great Show!
Her live performance of this album is just amazing!
Donors are bringing amazing music suggestions to your channel!! Great music today
I am shacking lietrally, how can you guys took her here! I LOVE HER SO MUCH
one of my favorites of all time!!!! I found you guys’ videos randomly and never left
I’m exciteddddd about this week! I’m in my early 30’s and blast her music like it came out yesterdayyyyy….Sunday morning cleaning session in my house was serioussss….can’t wait to see what’s next😊
So nice that we are all connected by that experience. 🥰
You guys are ALL OVer the map and I’m here for it 😂❤ … “Sweet Love” still time warps me back to any department store in the 80’s… Anita in general 😊
I was not a ballad guy when this song came out (I was 16 lol) but for some reason I really got into this song. I always loved the simplicity of the video.
Yaaasss. Kitts!!!!!
@@Sultans-World 😘
You guys… even if you hadn’t said anything after the song ended, just seeing your happy faces while listening would’ve been enough for me. It really did my heart so much good. Your hilarious and complimentary commentary is just a bonus. ♥️
@@TheKittsPajamas agreed💕
WOW! YO! Thank you for bringing her back. ❤
Yes I so enjoy vacationing with you guys. ♥️
This just made me subscribe😂😂 Anita Baker is my favorite artist
She’s a goat 🐐 🔥🔥
I can’t believe there’s no Luther on this channel.
Lol, mentioning Vandross on a Baker video. Keeping the feud alive, I see.
Well if they’re doing Anita Baker and Rachelle Farrell, I think it’s safe to expect a Luther week someday. I mean, it’s Luther…
@@got2bjosh😂😂
This is why the 80’s is the best season of rnb to me. Some of the best vocalist, most original orchestrations, and epic talent came from this time. Don’t get me started on my conspiracy theory on the downfall and takeover of rnb music in the music industry.
OMFG GUYS I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS WEEK !
OH LORD I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD'VE SEEN YOU REACT TO HER SOMEDAY 😱
Do Luther Vandross next
You gotta Do her song "You Bring Me Joy". I wish you had let this one be you first impression! But you'll see why when you hear it.🙂❤
Wait til you guys react to Sweet Love and Caught Up in the Rapture...oh and Just Because.
Omg y’all have to do Karyn White or Shirley Murdock or Lisa Fisher or maybe just do all 3 I swear you won’t regret it
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Y'all I LOVE UR CHANNEL, plz don't stop uploading videos
Ur reactions are hilarious and fun to watch❤
I can’t lie I only know one Anita Baker song “ Sweet Love” so I hope that songs included 😅 but looking forward to this week in general!
Ngl, kinda gagged they're dipping into the Bakery. So many smooth gems. Rapture (1986) & Rhythm of Love (1994) are by far her best, most consistent albums. Does this mean we're also getting closer to a Sade week?
I sure hope we get a Sade week eventually! Fingers crossed….
Idk if anyone said it but she actually did sing the tv show theme for Mad About You, the song is called Final Frontier by Paul Reiser. 😂 I thought it was funny yall mentioned that
ANITAAAAAAAA
Now wait a damn minute!!!!!! Anita THEE Baker?!?!?!?! Say what now?!?!?! C'mon boys! I'd like to bow down to the donor for introducing our guys to this tiny powerhouse. 'Sweet Love' (I'm assuming that's on the list?) is gonna take Mike & Joe out! 🍷🎤📻🎶🌆
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Ok come on VH1 Soul.
Sweet Love should be #1. I’m guessing Same Ole Love #2 (my damn song) Angel #3 and Caught Up in the Rapture #4.
Maybe they were requesting “I need a baker?”
It would be nice to do body and soul by Anita baker
Have you done Sade?
Fingers crossed.
My brain shuts down when I try to process how old Helen Folasade Adu is by now... but my memories of young adulthood are sooooo strong.
My aunt tried to be Anita baker..still to this day..she is delusional
Is that my man from 3rd Street Reactions?
Can we have some more Christina Aguilera live performance reactions
Anita took everything she could from Sarah Vaughan!
Anita is definitely quite storm⛈music! Also, Anita's singing style is greatly influenced by Sarah Vaughn and other jazz singers.
I'm not sure if you boys are being "ironic" (that is a "thing" with your generation), but r&b music was so much better back then and did not suck like it does now. If you have ever heard of "yacht rock", Anita Baker's music and much of r&b ballads back then were basically, the soul version of "yacht rock". Smooth, relaxing, easy listening music...
I really hate that Body and Soul didn't make the list!!! 😭😭😭😭😭
Please also react to Til Tuesday
React to Anitta envolver
This song was released in 1988. I think you have the '80s confused with the '50's and '60s in terms of smoking.
According to Cummings KM, Proctor RN. "The changing public image of smoking in the United States: 1964-2014." Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Jan;23(1):32-6.: "After a steep increase in cigarette use rates over the first half of the 20th century, adult smoking prevalence rates started declining from their peak reached in 1964. Improved understanding of the health risks of smoking has been aided by the United States Surgeon General’s Reports, issued on a nearly annual basis starting in 1964...In 1966 the first cautionary label appeared on cigarette packs, stating that cigarette smoking “may be hazardous to your health. The warnings were updated in 1970 and again in 1985...In 1967, anti-smoking advertisements began to air on television as part of a Federal Communications Commission Fairness Doctrine ruling requiring broadcasters to run an anti-smoking advertisement for every cigarette ad aired...Cigarette ads were banned from television and radio in 1971...Evidence regarding the health consequences of secondhand smoke strengthened in the 1970s and ‘80s, and policies limiting where people could use cigarettes became more common...The 1988 Surgeon General’s Report helped to further stigmatize tobacco use. The report examined why people persist in smoking despite recognition of its harms, and concluded that smoking was not just a “habit” but was in fact addictive in ways similar to the dependency-creating powers of heroin, cocaine and other drugs of abuse."
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