Who Made the Better Music After they went Solo BOBBY BROWN vs LIONEL RICHIE
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Lionel easy. He was his own hit maker. He was writing his own shit and writing for everyone else. Bobby was only as good as the producers he hired. After LaFace and Teddy Riley he dried up quick. I did like a lot of Bobby's music but he doesn't have enough hits to do a one man show. Lionel can do his own concert easy without even touching the stuff he wrote for the Commodores.
I agree with you, but it's funny, because he does a lot of Commodores songs in concert. More than his solo stuff.
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Not even close. Lionel had hits in multiple decades after the Commodores. Bobby had a few years riding on Teddy and New Jack then done.
On some of them songs post New Edition, someone also told him he could rap..nah bruh..
Well he should since he wrote them all. He doesn't distinguish between solo and Commodore music if he's the composer.
Not "Zoom" & "Too Hot To Trot".
On some of them songs post New Edition, someone also told him he could rap..nah bruh..
...I know rightThe thing is that the driving beat carried New Jack. In most cases you could have had anybody up there singing. However, the visuals eg. videos needed a "presence" and Bobby had it. For a minute.
Yeah, you're right. Growing up I didn't even consider those when I thought about the Commodores. We were stuck on Brick House, Easy, Three Times a Lady and Sail On.
hell some of those song Bobby wasn't even singing... it was RalphOn some of them songs post New Edition, someone also told him he could rap..nah bruh..
You know Johnny was a solo artist first than joined NE later.
He was co writer of we are the world.. that right there puts Richie on another level.
Something about this track just represents a great day during summer
Ronald LaPread was supposed to write "Zoom". He wrote the song, and his wife said his lyrics sucked. So, he said to her, "If you can better, then you write the lyrics!", and after she was done, he was like
. She died before they could record it, and while they were recording it, they kept crying."Too Hot To Trot" was for a soundtrack. When Lionel heard the song, he said "I'm not singing that bullshit!" The drummer, Walter Orange decided to sing it, and when they were almost finished with the song, Lionel realized the song was really pretty good, and he decided to jump in on it, and that's why you only hear him at the end of the song.
Lionel refused to sing "Too Hot To Trot".
Bobby had big hits but JG had better music.
Here on BGOL years ago, someone told a story of the greatest heist in music history.
Basically, a OG explained to them that We Are the World brought the biggest artists together for free with the understanding that the royalties and publishing would go to charity.
But....
The B side was a song written by Quincy, Lionel and MJ. And they kept that for themselves.
Nobody can tell you the b side off the top of their head, but it still had the same sale numbers as We Are the World. And those three duped all those stars outta mad bread.
Ronald LaPread was supposed to write "Zoom". He wrote the song, and his wife said his lyrics sucked. So, he said to her, "If you can better, then you write the lyrics!", and after she was done, he was like
"Too Hot To Trot" was for a soundtrack. When Lionel heard the song, he said "I'm not singing that bullshit!" The drummer, Walter Orange decided to sing it, and when they were almost finished with the song, Lionel realized the song was really pretty good, and he decided to jump in on it, and that's why you only hear him at the end of the song.
In the beginning, they said multiple times that Walter Clyde handled the upbeat and Lionel the ballads. IIRC their first chart was an instrumental "Machine Gun" with Walter Clyde banging the fuck out those tubs and their first vocal (next lp) chart was "Slippery When It's Wet" which I believe Walter Clyde sang. Not sure about charts for "Slippery" but they wore that shit out in clubs and every cover band knew it.
Very disrespectful thread.
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