1. Toni Braxton, “Long As I Live”
I knew where this song would end up from the moment I first heard it.
Toni knows a thing or two about heartbreak. (Check out her little known ’96 deep cut, “Un-Break My Heart,” sometime.) All these years later, nothing’s changed – bad news for her emotional state, but good news for our ears.
“Long As I Live” is both soothing and sad all at once. The production is perfectly melancholy in a Drake-like, pensive-after-midnight way. But the true star of the show is that inimitable, unmistakable voice. The way Toni delivers those lines, as a storyteller and a songwriter (“I can tell…that you love her, you really love her!“) is unmatched. This was my song, no doubt, long as this year was.
And oh, how long it was.
There you have it. Here’s a playlist!
And now, 2019 is just around the corner. Hours away! So while you’ve got some time to kill before the ball drops, here are my Top 10 favorite albums of 2018.
See you soon…
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