Memories of Street Life

One of my favorite songs when I was about 8 years old was Street Life. Randy Crawford was the vocalist but the song appeared on The Crusaders album. I was going through my itunes library and decided to play it tonight. It always amazes me when I listen to the song now because the lyrics of the song were not appropriate for an 8 year old, but I would sing my heart out right along with Randy. Most of the time I sang only the chorus and "prince charming only smiles behind a silver moon". Of course I now know that the prince was smiling behind a silver spoon and what that really means in terms of the street. Even now that lyric seems tame compared to the pimp and ho tales that our in what passes for music now. Street Life is a great song. Randy's voice was so smooth. The arrangement just sweeps over you and it's like listening to a movie. The music now doesn't seem to have that same vibrancy. It just feels packaged, shallow, and uninspired. Perhaps there is an 8 year old girl out there now singing a lyrically inappropriate song like oh I don't know Fergalicious with all of her heart because she just loves it but will she be able to remember it with same fondness that I have for Street Life.