00:00What's happening? I'm Estelle.
00:01I'm Molly Music.
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00:07I was in my teens, I want to say.
00:09I feel like I sound so old.
00:11Here we go.
00:12I'm such a grown-up.
00:13I want to say it was Jodeci.
00:15It was probably all my life.
00:17Oh!
00:18Like, oh, but...
00:20See the thing!
00:21Exactly, right?
00:22And the worst thing about it is I was, like, 15,
00:24so I didn't have much of a life at the time.
00:25So I don't know what I was all my life about.
00:27So it was true.
00:28It was real love, and I swear to goodness, it was all my life.
00:31Dang.
00:3215 years of it.
00:33It's just ridiculous.
00:34Is that braver than one day?
00:36Thank God!
00:38No, you got to really sing.
00:39You don't do that.
00:40That made me think of Sisqo.
00:42Sisqo had so many.
00:43That's it.
00:44He had a lot of scandalous ones, too, but...
00:46But you know what?
00:47It was when they were in Jerusalem,
00:48you always think of them as solo artists in their moment
00:51because they have an outstanding voice, right?
00:53But it was wonderful.
00:54It felt good, and it just, like, made me float.
00:57You felt like you were going to walk down the aisle looking like T-Bus
01:01and Mr. Dalvin in the video.
01:03That was the video for it, right?
01:04All right, I feel like it.
01:05So that's what I felt like was going to happen in my life.
01:08Not yet.
01:09That's a good one, man.
01:10It's still tight.
01:11I feel like I made people fall in love with me for singing that song.
01:15If they didn't know how to sing, they had a clue about the heritage.
01:22Come on.
01:23That's what they got right.
01:24We had this whole thing of, like, man, you know where it came from.
01:27Yes.
01:28And you didn't want to disrespect it.
01:29So people put their best effort forward,
01:31where now it's kind of like you don't have to worry about it.
01:34No one cares if you disrespect it or you know about it.
01:36I think it's just about people singing out.
01:38A lot of the singing now was like this and we were in it, blah, blah, blah.
01:41But they were singing.
01:42You had a vein, you know what I mean, of love happening.
01:46Right here.
01:47Every night.
01:48So I like that.
01:49I wish that would come back.
01:50I think the evolution of R&B is synchronized with the evolution of people.
01:54Yeah.
01:55And our priorities started to change.
01:57I think it was a point where we.
01:58Socially.
01:59Yeah.
02:00Loved and looked forward to being in love, you know.
02:02They weren't scared to talk about love.
02:04Yeah.
02:06Human beings were singing.
02:07Not artists, androids.
02:09Yeah.
02:10You know, people that look for sales.
02:12People that was going home and eating pound cake was singing.
02:15You know what I mean?
02:17People that was going home and eating pound cake was singing these songs.
02:21And people that were writing the songs was in the corner with some fried chips.
02:25Yes!
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