On Love, Marriage & Divorce, Toni Braxton and Babyface, creative partners going back to the early '90s, rekindle their musical relationship. Both endured broken marriages, and presumably it's those experiences that inform the material here -- a succinct collection of 11 songs, eight of which are duets. The emphasis is on divorce, indicated from the very beginning on 'Roller Coaster,' where Babyface enters with 'Today I got so mad at you, it's like I couldn't control myself.' The set finishes with the bittersweet 'The D Word,' seemingly a Sade homage, in which Babyface confesses 'You still own my heart, forever and ever and ever.' Moments that deviate from issues of romantic strife are few. The duo don't seem nearly as connected to them. 'Sweat,' a slinking groove, is like the 'Love During War' to Robin Thicke's 'Love After War,' while 'Heart Attack,' near the album's end, is a retro-disco move that seems more like a throw-in than a crucial part of the album. The sequence of songs plays out like scenes on shuffle. Either that, or the relationship is extremely up and down; the singers sometimes sound as if they are addressing ex-lovers from other relationships. 'Reunited' is a blissful ballad, but it's followed by the embittered 'I'd Rather Be Broke,' where Braxton asserts, 'Just because your money's strong don't mean you can do the things that you do.' Babyface is civil and clear-headed on 'I Hope That You're Okay,' claiming he 'can't go through the motions anymore,' but Braxton follows with a solo spotlight, 'I Wish,' that seems drawn from a different situation: 'I hope she creeps on you with somebody who is 22/I swear to God, I'm gonna be laughing at you every day.' As a narrative, the album can be hard to follow, but it's not as if breakups have a simple arc with a steady, unwavering decline. While most of these songs are ballads, Babyface rarely pulls out his acoustic guitar -- a saving grace for those who tired of hearing it throughout the '90s. This is a solid addition to both artists' discographies. The romantically content won't want to go anywhere near it.
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time |
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1 | Babyface / Toni Braxton | 4:23 | |
2 | Antonio Dixon / Kenneth Edmonds / Daryl Simmons | 4:27 | |
3 | Toni Braxton / Antonio Dixon / Kenneth Edmonds / Daryl Simmons | 4:10 | |
4 | Babyface / Toni Braxton | 3:36 | |
5 | Kenneth Edmonds / Daryl Simmons | 3:53 | |
6 | Babyface / Toni Braxton | 3:04 | |
7 | Toni Braxton / Antonio Dixon / Kenneth Edmonds / Daryl Simmons | 4:05 | |
8 | Toni Braxton / Antonio Dixon / Kenneth Edmonds / Daryl Simmons | 3:17 | |
9 | Toni Braxton / Antonio Dixon / Kenneth Edmonds / Kameron Glasper / Khristopher Riddick-Tynes / Leon Thomas | 3:37 | |
10 | Babyface / Toni Braxton | 3:51 | |
11 | Toni Braxton / Kenneth Edmonds | 5:13 |
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Like many celebs, Toni Braxton and Babyface’s divorces were both exposed to the public, but instead of just keeping their heartbreak in the headlines, they channeled their experiences into a new collaboration album, “Love, Marriage & Divorce.”
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The six-time Grammy winner, who married Mint Condition keyboardist Keri Lewis in 2001, finalized her divorce in July of this year, and had announced her retirement from recording earlier in February. But Babyface, who split with his second wife Tracey Edmonds in 2005 after 13 years of marriage, had an idea for the project that helped convince her to come back.
The album was born after Babyface wrote “Hurt You,” the first single on the new album which has already gone #1 on two charts. ”He said ‘Toni what do you think of this idea I have?’ and he just started playing it and I loved it,” the singer said of hearing the track for the first time. “And the rest was why we’re here today.”
While lyrics from the album cover a wide range of emotions, “Hurt You” represents a grey area for Toni that falls somewhere in the middle of the marriage and divorce parts of the equation. “I think it’s the in-between,” she told HelloBeautiful of the track’s sentiments. “It’s the marriage when you’ve gone to the therapist and you realize that you have to take blame for your fault in the relationship so you go ‘I never meant to hurt you ‘ and he says it back. Responsibility.…that’s what they tell you in therapy.”
Babyface shocked fans when he opened up about Tracy Edmonds in a sit down interview with Oprah and said, ”The reality is that there was a connection that wasn’t really there.” Adding, ”We loved each other but we weren’t really in love with each other. It was more the idea of it falling apart and me holding onto the image of what I thought we were.” On “Hurt You,” the producer, writer and singer sings lyrics like, “I did you wrong so many times yes/So I know why you crossed the line/Oh but girl I never dreamed you’d cheat on me,” with conviction.
One thing’s for sure: the ride of these musician’s relationships has been a catalyst for compelling, bittersweet songs!
Watch Toni and Babyface perform “Hurt You” in the video clip below and catch HelloBeautiful’s InterludesLIVE special with the pair exclusivelyon TV One, February 8, 2014 at 10p ET/9p CT. Legend of korra full episodes.
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Toni Braxton's Top 15 Songs
Toni Braxton's Top 15 Songs
1. Toni Braxton's Best Songs
Source: 1 of 102. Toni Braxton & Babyface- 'Hurt You'
Source: 2 of 103. Toni Braxton- 'How Could An Angel Break My Heart'
Source: 3 of 104. Toni Braxton- 'He Wasn't Man Enough For Me'
Source: 4 of 105. Toni Braxton- 'How Many Ways'
Source: 5 of 106. Toni Braxton- 'Seven Whole Days'
Source: 6 of 107. Toni Braxton- 'I Love Me Some Him'
Source: 7 of 108. Toni Braxton- 'You're Making Me High'
Source: 8 of 109. Toni Braxton- 'Another Sad Love Song'
Source: 9 of 10Toni Braxton and Babyface Confess Intimate Divorce Details [EXCLUSIVE] was originally published on hellobeautiful.com