R Magazine, Ex-TeenArt_Issue 1_Authenticity Jun. 2015 | Page 63

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Black or white - Michael Jackson

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Ebony and Ivory - Stevie Wonder & Paul Mc Cartney

Impossible to start this playlist without mentioning the king of pop! “No matter we are black
or white” according to MJ, who plays on the double-meaning of its words. Does he speak
about his physical transformation or generally about human beings? It does not matter! We all
danced and sang on this hymn to the tolerance ultra-rhythmic which remains one of its biggest
tubes.

According to the former Beatles, People have to imitate the piano keys, blacks and whites
(ebony and ivory, in the title) to live in harmony. Simplistic? Maybe, Nevertheless the title
sends some shivers and at the time of its release in 1982, was censored in South Africa where
the Apartheid was rampant (abolished in 1994 only).

3 Black celebration - Depeche mode

Opening title of the album of the same name and giving the tone (dark)) of this 5th opus.
Always captivating, the Gore duet will know how to make you a follower of their ‘black mass’
and you will soon be converted to their dark music.

4 Nights in white satin - The moody blues

Song which I discovered thanks to the soundtrack of the movie Casino. A soft slow dance
inviting us in a soft night in sheets of white satin…assured sleepless night!

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White nights - Oh Land

Sleepless nights that’s the point! The beautiful Nanna alias Oh Land tells us its sleepless nights
but not without dreams in this cheerful pop air and girly. The song is familiar to you? It is normal,
it was used in an episode of the series “girls”!

6 White rabbit - Jefferson airplane

This song is obviously a reference to Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Just like the book, it
takes us in the dreamlike journey which makes Alice to go and get the white rabbit. Plus the
psychedelic tones of the 60s.

7Back to black - Amy Winehouse

The autobiographical words of this song describe an Amy in the grip of an immense sadness,
because she was neglected by her boyfriend for another woman. The singer, died at only 27
years, have known during her short life the glory and the success, but also the addiction to
hard drugs. An artist crossed by the shadow and the light, as in the clip in black and white.

8 Tes yeux noirs - Indochine

All those (like me) who have dark eyes have dreamt the song was written for them. However I
have neither the short hair, nor the muscular body of a boy