Genius Meanings
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Stevie Wonder – Happy Birthday
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Today a staple at birthday parties, Stevie Wonder’s “Happy Birthday” originally served as an unofficial commercial to call up people to sign the petition for a Martin Luther King
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Nas – Fever
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[Intro] / Uh-huh / [Verse 1] / Early on the wake up, cunning as the father of the 12 sons of Jacob / Shake up the world, cake crumbs / Cover my gold teeth, cufflinks, waiters
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Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder – For Once In My Life
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[Verse 1: Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder] / For once in my life, I have someone who needs me / Someone I've needed so long / For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me / And
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Stevie Wonder – Lately
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[Verse 1] / Lately, I have had the strangest feeling / With no vivid reason here to find / Yet the thought of losing you's been hanging / 'Round my mind / Far more frequently you'
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Stevie Wonder – Isn't She Lovely?
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“Isn’t She Lovely?” is a song that celebrates the birth of Stevie’s daughter, Aisha Morris. Morris was his first child and is now a singer herself.
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Common (Ft. Stevie Wonder) – Black America Again
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“Black America Again” combines powerful, socially conscious lyrics with a jazz-infused instrumental. It is also the title track appearing on Common’s forthcoming album by the same
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Stevie Wonder – I Just Called to Say I Love You
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This song was written, produced, and performed by Stevie Wonder for Gene Wilder’s October 1984 romantic-comedy, The Woman in Red. The song won both the Golden Globe and Academy
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Stevie Wonder – Master Blaster (Jammin')
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The Reggae-inspired “Master Blaster (Jammin')” was the first single off Stevie Wonder’s 1980 album Hotter Than July. The song interpolates “Jamming” by Bob Marley and the Wailers
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Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
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Side 1 of Stevie Wonder’s iconic 1976 double LP, “Songs in the Key of Life,” ends with a tribute to Duke Ellington, who passed away in 1974.
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Stevie Wonder – Superstition
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“Superstition” was a pivotal shift not only in Stevie Wonder’s career, but also in popular black music. The song in some ways represents the end of the Civil Rights Movement and
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Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour
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The song was originally written about Wonder’s girlfriend while he was at the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing, Michigan, and had the title “Oh My Marsha”. After they broke
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Stevie Wonder – Another Star
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“Another Star” is a lengthy latin disco song about heartbreak and the difficulties of getting over a break-up. It is the final song of the main body of Songs in the Key of Life
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Stevie Wonder – You Are the Sunshine of My Life
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“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” is a single from Stevie Wonder’s album Talking Book. It was written and produced by Stevie.
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in
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Stevie Wonder – Rocket Love
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On “Rocket Love”, Stevie reminisces about a relationship that has since turned sour.
While the woman Stevie describes was “sensitive and warm”, and metaphorically even taking
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Stevie Wonder – All I Do
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[Verse 1] / You made my soul a burning fire / You're getting to be my one desire / You're getting to be all that matters to me / And let me tell you, girl / I hope and pray each
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Stevie Wonder – Part-Time Lover
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“Part-Time Lover” was released as the lead single from Stevie Wonder’s 1985 album In Square Circle. It tells a story of undercover lovers, who hide their infidelity from their
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JAY-Z – Jay Z Blue
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About his daughter Blue Ivy Carter. This is not the first song he’s written about her.
Note also that “Jay-Z Blue” is indeed a real color that Hov tried to trademark back in 2002
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Stevie Wonder – I'm Wondering (Single Version)
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[Verse 1] / Jimmy was your sweetie pie / Your precious one / And I knew you used to love / The very ground he walked upon / One day, Jim's papa told him / Things were looking down
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Lenny Kravitz – Happy Birthday
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This morning is a special morning / We gonna party all day long / We'll gonna celebrate the day that you were born / And we will start right with this song / Happy, happy, happy
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Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tears of a Clown
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“The Tears of a Clown” was released on the 1967 album Make It Happen The song was written by Smokey Robinson, Hank Cosby, and Stevie Wonder.
According to Robinson, Stevie came to
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Stevie Wonder – I Ain't Gonna Stand for It
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“I Ain’t Gonna Stand for It” is the second single from Stevie Wonder’s 1980 album, Hotter Than July. It reached number four on the Billboard R&B singles chart and number 11 on the
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Stevie Wonder – As If You Read My Mind
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[Verse 1] / Close your eyes 'til the morning / Close your eyes 'til the early dew / Get inside what you've been missing / Are the very first words that I heard coming from you / [
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Stevie Wonder – Visions
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This the second track off of his critically acclaimed album, “Innervisions”.
Stevie Wonder talks about an ideal society where we are not only at peace with others but also with
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