Tanya Stephens

No diseases involved, only planets that dictate our inner being. Tanya being born in the sign of the Cancer, it's obvious she's gonna be a strong, bovaristic woman. She'll play her partners on her fingers, she'll leave them when her liberty walks into a perilous corner of the room, and then run to another, with whom she'll do the same. I can tell you this much, the little time you'll spend with a Cancer will be the time of your life. Very intuitive, very smart, funny, unique people. Evasive, delirious dreamers! Marcel Proust, one of my favorite writers, was a Cancer. Kafka, and we know what a weirdo he was. Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Lana del Ray, Nicole Scherzinger, Jason Mraz, Cyndi Lauper(yes, girl DO wanna have fun!), Paloma Faith. Tell me ONE of these artists that sounds like the other. They're all unique, like they were part of the Nouveau Roman literary movement. They're slippery, you can't touch them. Don't even bother!

You can tell from the twist this article took, that I myself am a Cancer. Long, digressing people we are! As is Tanya Stephens, who talks more than she sings, in some pieces off this new album called 'Guilty'. In More Music she blames new-age singers of having a blabber mouth in their videos, of showing off their clothes, rather than chirping a good tune. Well, she does it as well, but she's got the upper hand! She's very critical, in this song, as in the rest of the album. Her priest-like sermons are lovely, passion filled little things. Check this out, for example:

'See, there will never be another Smokie, or Marvin [...] No new Millie Jackson, definitely no otha Whitney No otha Michael, what we got is a bunch of models Who are tryna sell us perfume and clothes And I don't mind buyin' all of that shit But shouldn't I at least hear some music from some of these hoes? Tell me, when was the last time you heard of Barry White? Or Carly Thomas? And Etta James, and Isaac Hayes All we got is a bunch of knock offs samplin' shit Pretendin' to be clever, these is the last days!'

A sort of apocalyptic view in that last verse, right?

'What good is ever after without the happily?', she puts it in a rhetorical manner, in 'Hit and Run'. I totally agree! But the bond of marriage acts like a whip that stops our feelings from wavering. 'I feel like cheating...' WHIPASH! 'No, you don't!'. 'I wanna try something new...' WHIPASH! 'It's worthless! Any other thing will end up the same way!'. See, the ever after pact doesn't let any moods, or selfish character slips to come between those who were once lovers. If life truly becomes impossible with the other one, if he's violent, or corrupt beyond repair, divorce him. If he's a drunkard with signs of recovery, you're supposed to help him out, if he cheats, you can always win him back, if he's bored, you can always re-light the fire. The forever after is an anti-hack program. All it has embedded in its core is 'no easy way outs', 'no cheating the bond', 'no moods'.

'Guilty', a lady's death row song. She murdered and refused to sit in a cell with petty thieves and 'small time hoodlums'. Hence, the death row. Hence, the song. And what a marvelous song it is. Many good things came from walking that final road. Remember Dostoevsky?

I'll leave you to it! Listen to the songs, look up Unapologetic on youtube, because it's been there for awhile now, like it, share it, and buy the album! It's worth it!