I'm secretly a huge fan of funk and soul music -- funny, really, because you'd have a hard time finding a tigher-assed white boy than me. Still, I just love the way the right beat and the right voice can reach down inside of you and scratch some itch you didn't even know you had. I could care less what the song's even about ... but you know what it's usually about. ;)
Such is the case with this Betty Davis track, part of her debut album recently reissued. I hear the Anti Love Song as a summons to a challenge -- a challenge I would probably meet, sadly, with a pathetic Bill Cosby-style strut.
If you liked Betty's hoarse purr on that track, here's the male equivalent from Tom Waits, in an anti-love song of a different stripe. I feel this way practically all of the time.
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--> Anti Love Song, Betty Davis
--> Shore Leave, Tom Waits
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