"Sweetheart" is a song written by American singer Rainy Davis (pictured) and Pete Warner, produced with Dorothy Kessler, and originally recorded by Davis. The lyrics describe a woman's desire for a person with whom to share a romance. It was released in 1986 by independent record label SuperTronics as a single from Davis's 1987 album Sweetheart. A freestyle, hip hop pop, and synth-funk song, it appeared on R&B; and dance music charts in the US. Mariah Carey recorded a cover version with rapper Jermaine Dupri for his 1998 debut album, Life in 1472, and her greatest hits album, #1's. So So Def Recordings and Columbia Records released it as a single from the former album and promoted it with a Hype Williams music video. In the US and the UK, the cover charted only on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 and UK club charts. It reached the top twenty on the Dutch, German, and Swiss charts. In reviews, critics focused on Carey's vocal performance, Dupri's rapping style, and the cover's sexual nature.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
Manitoba was established as a province of Canada following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba
1943:
The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Plater_Independent_Women%27s_Battalion
1983:
Sega's first home video game console, the SG-1000, was released in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SG-1000
2009:
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Airlines_Flight_7908
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
acid test: 1. (figuratively) A rigorous test or appraisal of the quality or worth of something. 2. (by extension, historical) In the 1960s, a party based around the use and advocacy of the psychedelic drug LSD (known in slang as "acid"). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acid_test
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Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values — inexperienceable — which we serve. --Walter Benjamin https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin