“For me… you can write two types of songs. ‘I love you and you love me’: boring. It’s a closed loop. But ‘I love you but you love someone else’? That’s interesting.
— Sting, discussing his theories on hitmaking with Oprah in 2003.
“And the big unmentionable… are your sex hormones. When you don’t have any sex hormones, you can’t feel sex. You can do it… but you’d rather have a smoothie.”
— actress-turned-wellness-warrior Suzanne Somers, discussing the debate over bio-identical hormones on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”
A historic live project from the queen of my heart is only one of this crowded week’s significant releases. Gentlemen, start your engines:
His debut disc — 2003’s flop A Beautiful World — sure didn’t make any waves, but a new reality emerged post-”SexyBack,” one in which criminally photogenic young men with preternaturally high voices and an immutable passion for synthesized soul could become megastars at the drop of an acutely tailored fedora. And so it was decreed that Robin Thicke’s sophomore record, The Evolution of Robin Thicke, would make him an overnight sensation. (Oh yeah, and a killer single — the irresistibly cheesy “Lost Without U” — plus the Oprah stamp of approval, didn’t hurt nothin’.) Thicke took his time crafting album number three, but we finally get a taste of Something Else this week.
