I first heard Tevin Campbell watching a music video for "Round and Round", which was featured on the "Graffiti Bridge" soundtrack. I didn't actually watch the movie, but my sister was an avid Prince fan at the time. I was a fan, too, but she took it up a couple notches. In any case, good music, iffy movie.
"I'm Ready" dropped in 1993. I was in 9th grade. "Can We Talk" was the radio hit that everyone sang and every girl I knew would swoon over it. I was about 14 years old, and Tevin was like 16 or something at the time. It was easy for the girls to imagine he was singing to them.
As popular as "Can We Talk" was, "Shhh" was the one the kids talked about in class. Everyone was going through puberty and sex was on our minds often. I don't know if that's …
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