This week’s song speaks to a different type of love – the kind we all need to embrace – love and caring for our fellow man!
Take that kind of message and mix it with the absolute pinnacle in soul, funk, sexy, and rock and roll, and you get Lenny Kravitz. If you know, you just know…Lenny’s music touches your soul and has continued to transform over the decades. Going to one of his concerts is a spiritual experience – you feel a connection with a consciousness of love and respect that vibrates higher than our everyday life.
Introspection, action, personal accountability, love, growth, self-awareness, unity, peace, kindness, and most of all love – Lenny Kravitz challenges you to aspire to be better – and lives a life by example.
It’s been three decades since Lenny Kravitz released, his debut album, Let Love Rule. A mind-bending blur of rock, soul, funk, and psych, the album—and Kravitz—forced a narrow-minded industry to look outside its rigid, genre-ruled box. At the time, Kravitz was equally praised for his imaginative sound as he was critiqued for being overpowered by influences. 30 years, multiple Grammys and several hits for artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson later, Kravitz has deservedly carved out a space for himself. “Not black enough,” “not white enough,” and other equally nonsensical attempts at sorting his sound into a box have morphed into simply letting Lenny Kravitz be Lenny Kravitz. With his 11th studio album, Raise Vibration, Kravitz does just that, grabbing everything from Off The Wall-style dance floor jams to Johnny Cash-themed ballads by the balls. It’s Kravitz’s career-long message that attempts to unite all the disparate parts. “The message remains the same,” he explained in a statement about the album, “It was and always will be about love…With these songs, I offer you vibrations of peace, love and unity.”
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/lenny-kravitz/lenny-kravitz-raise-vibration-review/
I’m certain that Lenny will grace Tune In Tuesday multiple times, but Let Love Rule was one of the first Lenny songs I knew…Give it a listen below!
Love is gentle as a rose And love can conquer any war It's time to take a stand Brothers and sisters join hands We got to let love rule Let love rule We got to let love rule Let love rule Love transcends all space and time And love can make a little child smile Can't you see this won't go wrong But we got to be strong We can't do it alone We got to let love rule Let love rule We got to let love rule Let love rule You got to, got to, got to (Let love rule) Let love rule You got to, got to, got to Let love rule (Let love rule) Let love rule You got to, got to, got to Yes, yeah yeah You got to, yeah You got to, got to, got to, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let love rule
Here’s a BONUS mini concert by Lenny Kravitz – 3 songs that will call you to reflect on your own efforts and impacts!
Do you connect with lyrics, music, or both? What are some of your favorite ‘love’ or ‘anti-love’ songs??
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