TTT–Same Message||Different Centuries

^{Edited on canva}

For reasons best known to the universe, I've heard a lot of sad and heartbreaking stories in the past week; heartbreaking mostly for the people involved and so, my post for today is going to be a little tribute to the broken-hearted. The songs wouldn't necessarily heal the wounds but I feel it would give some insight and help the person feel hopeful again.

I always look forward to Tuesdays. Tuesdays are the only days I feel comfortable sharing tunes with fellow music lovers and at the same time updating my playlist with songs from fellow music lovers. This is courtesy of @ablaze who introduced the #threetunetuesday initiative.

For today, I'd be sharing songs from three different years and I would be ending with the oldest of them all. Is it just me or songs produced in the 20th century always had so many heartfelt emotions attached to them? Not just the blues. A person could listen to jazz from the 20th century and still get emotional. Maybe I'm just the one with lots of emotions to spare, hehe.

Unfaithful–Rihanna(2006)

This is a song that tells a tale of a broken relationship where the girl is cheating and she knows that her partner knows. Hilarious. It happens tho. Heartbreak from a female. I would like to blame it on human nature but I won't, because I've seen a couple of people who were or have been faithful.

^{The phone used in this music video is evidence that times have changed. Did you see the phone}

Growing up, I liked to listen to Rihanna and my favourite song of hers is "man down"–one song I can sing word for word from beginning to the end. One of my superpowers :)

It wasn't me –Shaggy(2001)

This was one song that I always vibed to when I was younger, especially because of the reggae involved . The only thing I could hear from the song was "it wasn't me" and guess what, I saw the lyrics for the first time today. Flabbergasted? Very much so.

I like the animated version a lot more. It gives a hilarious touch to the tragic predicament. In this case, the lady is the heartbroken one and the guy is bent on denying every single alligation even when he was caught red handed. I wonder how that works.

I'd Rather Go Blind–Etta James(1968)

I had a chit chat with a friend recently and she mentioned something about "women's instinct being true 90% of the time." Well, people get accused falsely 10% of the time. I saw truth in her statement and this song happened to back my thoughts up.

Etta James affirms in this song that she would rather go blind than watch her partner scurry off with another damsel. Going blind is a little bit extreme but the pain of watching your partner leave can be excruciating. And on the women's instinct It happens like clockwork. The ladies would always sense that something is amiss even though some of them choose not to make a fuss about it; doesn't mean they do not know. Does it work the same way for the male parties?

This was my favourite of the trio. Which was your favourite?

I'd like to end with this quote by Aristotle "Happiness depends upon ourselves."

None of the videos used belong to me. They are all properties of YouTube.

With love, wongi ✨