Song of the Day: Can You Stand the Rain (by New Edition)

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Arleigh

I had to go old-school RnB with my next pick for Song of the Day. Being a child of the 80’s I was a fan of New Edition, but it wasn’t until the start of the 90’s that I really got into them as I was in high school at that time. High school meant girls and girls meant dances, dates, slow dances and everything else in-between and afterwards.

It was hard not to go to high school dance and prom and not have New Edition ballads in the DJ list. While New Edition’s Can You Stand the Rain was released in 1989 it definitely got major airplay in 1990 and beyond. This was the first true ballad from the group with their new member Johnny Gill who had replaced Bobby Brown who had left the group to go solo. To say that I still love this song even 20 years after I first heard it would be an understatement. This is the jam for couple who have hit a rough patch but who endure to stay together.

Just listening and watching the music video sadly reminds me that RnB ballads are not the same now as they have been in the past. To say that they sure don’t make RnB music like this would be an understatement. Y’all youngings can have your Chris Brown, Ne-Yo and all the new RnB upstarts. I say they still can’t hold a candle to New Edition and this song definitely makes my point for me.

Can You Stand the Rain

(Johnny)
On a perfect day I know that I can count on you. When that’s not possible, tell
me can you weather the storm?

(Ralph)
Cause I need some body who will stand by me through the good times and bad
times she will always, always be right there.

Chorus
Sunny days everybody loves them tell me baby can you stand the rain? Storms
will come, this we know for sure(this we know for sure). Can you stand the rain?

(Johnny)
(yeah yeah) Love unconditional I’m not asking just of you. and girl to make it
last I’ll do whatever needs to be done.

(Ralph)
But i need somebody who will stand by me, when it’s tough she won’t run she
will always, be right there for me.

Chorus
Sunny days every body loves them, tell me baby can you stand the rain? Storms
will come (Ricky) I know I know all the days won’t be perfect (this we know for
sure) but tell me can you stand it, can you stand the rain?

Can you stand the rain (4x)

(Rick)No pressure, no pressure from me baby (this we know for sure) cause I want
you and I need you and I love you girl.

(Ralph) Will you be there for me?

(Mike) Come on baby lets go get wet.

Can you stand the rain (10x)

(Ralph)
Can you stand the rain?
Will you be there girl?
Storms will come for sure.
Can you stand the rain?

(Johnny)
Yeah it’s hard but I’ll know I’ll be right there baby yeah yeah yeah.

Hottie of the Day: Suelyn Medeiros

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Arleigh

Straight from NYC and Rio de Janeiro comes our latest hottie of the day, the lovely Suelyn Medeiros.

Born in 1986 from Brazilian parents in the city of New York, Suelyn Medeiros spent her youth growing up in the Big Apple and Rio de Janiero. A country known for some of the most beautiful women in the world, Ms. Medeiros wasn’t originally interested in modeling and was looking towards a career as a doctor. She was encouraged by her friends (plus many strangers) to try out modeling. They spoke about her natural and curvaceous beauty not to mention her exotic looks and spontaneous personality which makes her a natural model. While still set on pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor, Suelyn Medeiros nonetheless decided to use modeling to help realize that dream.

She accepted a friend’s offer and invitation to participate at a fashion show during Fashion Week in NYC on 2005. It didn’t take long before a modeling agency signed her up and her career as a model began to take of. What began as a way to help her pay for her studies to become a doctor soon turned into a successful modeling career. Ms. Medeiros has done photoshoots for swim wear and lingerie catalogs not to mention becoming a mainstay for many urban-style magazine covers and spreads. This in turn helped her move towards the nex phase of her modeling career as she’s entered the world of hip-hop as a music video model. She’s even appeared as herself in the teen comedy movie, Still a Teen Movie.

While her dreams of becoming a doctor has been put on hold, it is safe to say that her career in modeling should keep her busy for years to come.

Cronenberg and Mortensen line up for another Eastern Promises

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Arleigh

2007’s Eastern Promises was a film well-received by both critics and the public alike. People loved it because it was David Cronenberg dipping his artistic toe into the pulp crime genre of mob films. Some loved it because it had Viggo Mortensen in what could be his best role to date. For some the film ended just when it really got interesting. The scene in the end with Mortensen’s Nikolai Luzhin sitting alone finally reaching his ultimate goal and an unanswered question of where his loyalties truly lie now.

It’s has now been reported by Deadline Hollywood that producer Paul Webster has lined up both David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen for a sequel with Mortensen reprising his Russian mobster Nikolai Luzhin. Plans to have the film to start filming later this winter using a screenplay by Steven Knight (also wrote the first film) may hinge on whether Cronenberg and Mortensen can finish their current project together. This current project, their third together as a creative team, is the Sigmund Freud film The Taking Cure.

No matter how this project develops in the coming months one of the questions fans of the first film will be asking is whether Vincent Cassel will return as well to reprise his role from the first film. Not to mention Naomi Watts and Armin Mueller-Stahl. There’s also the question of how Cronenberg will top the original film’s now famous Turkish Bath House fight scene that’s now considered one of the best, if not THE BEST, fight sequence ever put on film. Or will he even try.

In the end, this is just great news. From all the talk The Taking Cure looks to continue the success the Cronenberg-Mortensen duo have had and this sequel to Eastern Promises may just keep that success going.

Source: Deadline Hollywood