Music Review: Lumidee & Tony Sunshine "She's Like The Wind"

Lumidee & Tony Sunshine

She’s Like the Wind

Album: Unexpected

Year: 2007

                Lumidee gives her crush, Tony Sunshine, a pep talk  in the  warmed-over  “She’s Like The Wind.”)

         In the opening. Tony Sunshine introduces himself with a gruff synth, setting an invincible tone. (“Yea/Yo/Tony Sunshine.”)

            Lumidee says his shyness isn’t that big of a deal. She’s noticed he likes her self-reliance. Then, she brags that she’s extra special from all the other girls. She has feelings for him, too. Whenever she’s comes  by, she sees people whispering and knows they are gossiping about her. She says it’s ok for him to be nervous and there’s no need to be intimidated by her. (“Listen baby I’ve been around/I know that you like how I wear my crown/And I know that I’m something that is so profound/So far what I’m hearing look I like the sound/Everybody’s talkin’ about it/We could be talkin’ why would you doubt it/Your palms are sweaty and your heart sounds poundin/This is what you feeling tell me about it.”)

         Sunshine continues with a slightly altered verse of the Patrick Swayze original. He admires Lumidee and thinks about her all the time. He’s certain she has no idea the depth of his feelings for her. She may think it’s a tiny crush but it’s true love for him. (“She’s like the wind/Thru my tree (baby yea baby yea)/Shes rides all night/Next to me/Like you won’t believe (No)/She leaves me the moonlight/Only to burn me wit the sun/Damn it I believe she knows/She takin’ my heart/She doesn’t know what she's done/Baby please.”)

        Sunshine has the chrous, which again is changed a little from the original. Whenever she talks close to him, he has turn away and glance at the floor. She’s someone he can never have and even be fortunate, if she even says hi to him in passing. (“I feel her breath in my face (baby I can feel)/Her body’s close to me (her body close to me)/Can’t look in her eyes (can’t look in your eyes)/She’s outta my league (shes outta my league oh)/Just a fool to believe/She’s got everything I need/She’s like the wind.”)

         She gives him a cutesy pet name and then downplays their interactions. His attitude is annoying her some and he has to stop worrying. All they are doing is talking and seeing what happens. No one is going to get married or anything. (“If  you can't conceive it muffin/Cause you just let it be it's nothing/Look we just hangin’ around/Sneakin’ a look/When I can just put you down.”)

          Sunshine, in his variation of the second verse of the original, says all the teasing and heartache he has suffered has aged him. Lumidee is his hope to save him for his depression. (“Girl I look in the mirror (what you see what you see)/And all I see (tell me what you see girl, tell you I can feel this baby)/Is a young old man with only a dream/Am I just fooling myself (yea)/Thinkin’ she'll stop the pain (yes she will yes she will)/Living without her/I'd go insane/Damn it I believe she knows.”)

           Sunshine sings the chorus again.

           Lumidee heaves a huge sigh and rolls her eyes. She tells him to stop overthinking and just ask already. She’s been doing everything can to show him she likes him back. She doesn’t want anyone else. (“Look I’m right here/Come on toughin’ up/Boo get it together and just try your luck/Ever since I heard you got this little crush I/Pass your way and it's givin me a rush/So I peeped you style/Yes I’m impressed /Always wit the best/Put dem other dudes to rest/So  you ain’t got to stress cuz I got what you need/I could ease your pain and fulfill all you dreams.”)

           Sunshine sings a variation of the chorus again. (“Just a fool to believe/She got anything I need (take dat)/I feel her breath in my face/Her body close to me (clap yo hands)/Can’t look in her eyes, no (yea)/She’s outta my league (move)/Just a fool to believe (Move)/She got anything I need/She’s like the wind.”)

           Lumidee raps her second verse twice. (“If  you can't conceive it muffin…when I can just put you down.”)

        At the end, Sunshine says it was him singing and then the song’s title to end the single. (“Move/Tony Sunshine/Yea/Take dat/She’s like the wind.”)

          Lumidee’s uppity rap has gotten used to being told she’s a classy girl. It’s made her arrogant and impatient. Unlike Baby, she’s not the least sympathetic or even worthy of being held in such high regard. She only reinforces her faults and acts like she’s doing him a favor by letting him be in her presence.  

       Sunshine’s simplehearted vocals cannot see that there’s a future ahead of him. There are prospects but hinging on one girl’s opinion isn’t how he’s going to reach them. Technically, he sings it the way it should be sung. However,  he would’ve been better off doing a straight-up R&B cover of the single by himself.

            The ill-conceived “She’s Like The Wind” ravages a piece of the listeners’ childhoods one at a time.