The Color Me Badd Appreciation Post

Recently, I have been subject to Color Me Badd libel - from multiple sources. This I cannot have without speaking. So, here is - well - me speaking.





How can anyone not like Mark, Bryan, Kevin, and Sam? I understand that their peak was really only two years. I'll even give that they weren't the best singers. Seriously, though: CMB had songs. Okay, so most of them were on one album. Doesn't matter: would it be better if their songs were more spread out? Didn't think so.

I wanted to put the "Color Me Badd" track from the debut album here, but I can't find it - likely due to the fact that the song has the same name as the group. Stupid search engines. Anyway...

"We'd like to introduce us...we're Color Me Badd, the funky new band
With our dope producers...it's Mark, Bryan, Kevin, and Sam
We're down with Warner Brothers and we're here on Giant Records
Our music is with R&B and hip hop, so just let us
Entertain and groove you: we're not a fad, we're Color Me Badd"

I thought it was a catchy track that introduced the group. Anyway, on to the songs that were more famous.

Pretty much have to start here. The little step with the pointing was awesome. Actually, I don't think I need to say much at all about this song. This is the one everyone likes.

Now to something more obscure from that CD, Roll The Dice:

That's my second-favorite fast CMB song, with the song I couldn't find from earlier being first. Of course, CMB was known for the slower stuff anyway. Slow Motion wasn't exactly slow, but it's still a great song (the remix in the video wasn't as good, so I didn't include that link)...

 

Little-known fun fact: that part in the chorus where they say "I'll love you so slow morning will..."? I had no idea what that meant at the time. I was 13, so I imagine that's probably acceptable. Ah well.

Then there were the slow jams, including this forgotten gem from the Mo Money soundtrack:

 

I almost missed it completely because that soundtrack had a couple other great songs on it (The Best Things In Life Are Free and Ice Cream Dream). The production on the song was excellent: minimal and effective. That's how slow songs should be.

Continuing the slow jam part of the post, there are two songs that stand above all others for me. This is my personal favorite, even though it didn't do as well as some of their other songs (including the one after it)...

If you know CMB at all, you know what song I'm going to end with. Dream on, dream away...

 

Actually, you know what: they've still got it, as evidenced by this clip from this summer (in case you're wondering where Sam is, Wikipedia says he's a record producer - but he won in life by marrying Tamyra Gray - and in other news, looks like Bryan's been eating)...

  

I read that their album releases throughout the 90s were actually pretty good. Just wish they got pushed, or that I knew how to look for below-the-surface music back then. They might actually come back with new stuff, which would be cool. As of now, they already have success to stand on. I didn't even mention All 4 Love, which was one of their two #1 hits (I Adore Mi Amor being the other: in case you're wondering, I Wanna Sex You Up peaked at #2).

But people don't/didn't like Color Me Badd. Y'all need to go on with that.