before i lose my style

kfan:

Need to give a very important shout-out to this book. 

@siik is hands-down my favorite DJ. I’ve been listening to his music for YEARS—he has this passion for 90s r&b that thrills and delights me. And now he made a book about it! And it’s SO GREAT!

He took the Billboard Hot 100 R&B chart from 1992, then went through the YouTube comments for each video, and curated memories that people shared about the songs. It’s fun, hilarious, and totally moving—the emotional resonance that a song like Shanice’s “I Love Your Smile” has for some people might be surprising? But I had that cassingle and I remember singing along in my car like THIS SONG IS SO HAPPY WHY DO I LIKE IT. And it was doubly shameful for me because I was allegedly a metal head and all my friends only talked about Metallica and Pantera and secretly I loved Prince & Janet Jackson more but it was not a thing I could talk about with ANYONE. Look at me, there I go.

It’s about music & memories & the shared history of who we were back then. It’s so, so, so good. 

This is a book made from YouTube comments, and who even knows if it’s legal? But it’s more emotionally powerful then most other books I’ve read so far this year,  plus it’s gorgeously designed. I wrote more about it on Goodreads, but basically if you like Mary J Blige and Arrested Development and En Vogue and TLC—if those are your fucking JAMS right there, you will love this, it’s brilliant, check it out.

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD