The Pickmeisha Playlist (2)

Written By Kensedeobong Okosun

22. Gladys Knight. “Good Woman”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIhS_-tFCHk

23. Jade. “Give Me What I’m Missing”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUU9JEjiM5Q

24. ……… “Looking For Mr. Do Right”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vilwLbRUeaE

25. Janet Jackson. “I Get Lonely”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euWjl-dBG9w

26. Jennifer Lopez. “My Love Don’t Cost A Thing”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms00b3GwpT0

27. Jill Scott. “Gettin’ In The way”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiR6sU1igKM

28. Jody Watley. “Don’t You Want Me”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7Za5waqls

29. …………………. “I’m The One You Need”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFwPWHlN83I

30. Joyce Sims. “Come Into My Life”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcSh7Y9Vc24

31. Karyn White. “Hooked On You”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5axtBCDuo

32. ……………………… “Can I Stay With You” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28CTDjEG8w

33. Kelly Price. “You Should Have Told Me”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ4KCbSnKok

34. Lisa Fischer. “How Can I Ease The Pain”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3BRpyB5ayw

35. Mariah Carey. “Can’t Let Go”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Db_WrSkds

36. Mary J. Blige. “Kitchen”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC0HolK1zAs

37. Miki Howard. “Come Home To Me”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xROGGSQIV-4

38. Mokenstef. “He’s Mine”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4YlYydOnWE

39. Monica. “For You I Will”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyyNEAZEqjI

40. Natalie Cole. “Gonna Make You Mine”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwizvEFFVWw

41. Nina Simone. “I Put A Spell On You”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua2k52n_Bvw

42. Patti LaBelle. “Somebody Loves You”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbsq3K8ozQ8

43. Pebbles. “Always”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wpBD_2Mmm4

44. Puff Johnson. “Forever More”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6Crh414tU

45. Regina Belle. “When Will You Be Mine”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-N7c1FTbk

46. Shanice. “I’m Cryin’”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlFYnVWYHUs

47. SWV. “Weak”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZxlDmV8AFM

48. TLC. “If I Was Your Girlfriend”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0P8V8bCMnM

49. Toni Braxton. “Breathe Again”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYMTFrBerNM

50. ……………………. “You Mean The World To Me”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZSqkfZFAVQ

51. Vanessa Williams. “Still In Love”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdQmdeAdPc

52. Whitney Houston. “Saving All My Love For You”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2rj17_EDu0

53. ……………………………….. “I Belong To You”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUyPAmd4fnU

54. ……………………………….. “I Have Nothing”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3gLKzxILE

55. ……………………………….. “Until You Come Back To Me”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBqHouLTHIg


Kensedeobong Okosun

Kensedeobong Okosun (M.A Bielefeld University) is a music enthusiast, music researcher, music journalist with expertise in music selection & planning, vocalist and an author. Her academic article “Sisterhood and Soul Music as expressions of Black Power” is featured in the edited volume, Black Power in Hemispheric Perspective (Raussert & Steinitz, eds, 2022). She has reviewed Dorothea Gail’s Weird American Music for the Forum for Interamerican Research (fiar, 2019). Her literary review on Nigerian music titled “Nigerians and their Music” has been published on the Nigerian news platform Sun News Online, while her article “Remembering Victor Uwaifo, “Guitar Boy” and the quest to meet Mami Wata” graced The Nigerian Observer.

Kensedeobong’s blog highlights music’s interconnectivity with society and comprises personal music experiences, researched information, concept playlists for multiple themes, etc.

A hard-core 90s R&B fan, she utilises the vehicle of memory, to position long forgotten music of yesteryears on the front-burner.

She is persuaded that music is a core conduit of collective harmony, equanimity, vitality and healing. And as such requires criticality in the filtration process, in order to disseminate meaning. Her blog promotes music equality and diversity.

She resides in Germany.

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