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Left Eye hated this song. She thought 30 sec sent the wrong message ... a woman admitting she'll never leave her man but keeps cheating on him. T-Boz and Chilli disagreed. The tension was real, and it's in the recording: a track so cool it's practically clinical, a confession delivered like lab results. Dallas Austin produced it. Number one on the Hot 100. Sometimes the wrong message is the rightest thing you can say.
Tom Berenger plays a mercenary who goes undercover as a high school teacher in The Substitute, and the Bar-Kays' 'Soul Finger' -- a Stax instrumental built around a riff that sounds like a warning -- is the sound of a man who administers detention with extreme prejudice.
Soul finger. The substitute was pointing it at the drug ring. 1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).