Epilogue “It’s Just Another Sad Love Song”: Reading Toni Braxton
In March 2018, Toni Braxton released her latest album, Sex and Cigarettes, where the song, “Long as I Live,” articulates a point about love and relationships that her two-and-a-half decades’ worth of cultural production emphasizes: romanticized notions of love fall short of grasping love’s complexit...
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| Published in | Destructive Desires p. 165 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Rutgers University Press
05.04.2019
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In March 2018, Toni Braxton released her latest album, Sex and Cigarettes, where the song, “Long as I Live,” articulates a point about love and relationships that her two-and-a-half decades’ worth of cultural production emphasizes: romanticized notions of love fall short of grasping love’s complexity, incompleteness, emptiness, unevenness, and limits. More pointedly, if the song’s persona assumes the identity of heterosexual (black) women, her musical production further suggests that love’s failures disproportionately affect black women, who, as a result of their romantic partner’s infidelity, disinterest, or otherwise unavailability, all too often discover the shortcomings of romantic love. Yet, despite this |
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| ISBN: | 9781978803596 1978803591 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctvscxs4r.9 |