{"id":1122,"date":"2014-07-11T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowsuburbandeath.com\/2014\/07\/11\/funksoul-friday-tune-skin-tight\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:55:09","slug":"funksoul-friday-tune-skin-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Funk\/Soul Friday tune:  Skin Tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ohio Players - Skin Tight\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d-z2Kyiu0Nk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The prodigal basketball son of Ohio has returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers, inspiring this Friday&#8217;s song from the Ohio Players.\u00a0 <!--more-->While &#8220;Fire&#8221; and &#8220;Love Rollercoaster&#8221; has had more success on the charts, the hard driving funk of &#8220;Skin Tight&#8221; remains the perfect combination of deep bass rhythms wrapped inside the stylized, sensual brass tones.\u00a0 I have always loved how the Ohio Players indulge in drum flourishes in their songs, using it to change the direction of the long version song.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Players were very risque with their lyrics and album covers, but &#8220;Skin Tight&#8221; was always on the mild side.\u00a0 Pure Western Addition and Market St. back-in-the-day tune, when girls still carried around fake fur bags filled with hair products and flavored lip gloss from the Walgreens counter.<\/p>\n<p>As to Lebron, you wish you had this much soul.\u00a0 If the Cavs win, you can thank Kyrie Irving.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prodigal basketball son of Ohio has returned to the Cleveland Cavaliers, inspiring this Friday&#8217;s song from the Ohio Players.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,33],"tags":[229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annapirhana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}