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This week’s theme is“Cool/Freeze/Heat/Melt.”
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The video for The Sweetest Days is shot in two different ways. The “romantic version” was shot in an apartment overlooking a city skyline while the “urban version” shows the singer walking in a park and through streets. They give the song a different feel but both supporting the same message that despite turbulent times, the warmth and security of love is always a safe haven, and the days we’re living now will one day be “the good old days.”
The song is the first single from Vanessa Williams’ third studio album of the same name in 1994 and was written by the same team who previously penned Save the Best for Last for Williams.
The Sweetest Days reached No. 18 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the US Adult Contemporary Charts.
FUN FACTS:
- As an actress, Williams enjoyed success on both stage and screen, receiving an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her portrayal of Teri Joseph in the film Soul Food (1997).
- Vanessa’s best-known television role is that of Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty (2006–10), for which she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
- Williams’ paternal great-great grandfather was William A. Feilds, who was born a slave, would go on to serve as an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
- Williams was the first African American recipient of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. Several weeks before the end of her reign, however, a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published unauthorized nude photographs of her. Williams was pressured to relinquish her title, and was succeeded by the first runner-up, Miss New Jersey 1983, Suzette Charles. Thirty-two years later, in September 2015, when Williams served as head judge for the Miss America 2016 pageant, former Miss America CEO Sam Haskell made a public apology to her for the events of 1984.
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The Sweetest Days
by Vanessa Williams
Songwriters: Philip Edward Galdston / Jon Lind / Wendy Waldman
Holding the night so close,
Hanging on, still unbroken
while outside the thunder rolls.
Listen now you can hear my heart beat
warm against life’s bitter cold.
These are the days.
the sweetest days we’ll know.
There are times that scare me.
We’ll rattle the house like the wind,
both of us so unbending.
We battle the fear within.
All the while life is rushing by us.
Hold it now and don’t let go.
These are the days.
the sweetest days we’ll know.
So, we’ll whisper a dream here in the darkness.
Watching the stars till their gone.
And when even the mem’ries have all faded away,
these days go on and on.
Listen now, you can hear my heartbeat.
Hold me now and don’t let go.
(These are the days, )
ev’ry day is the sweetest day we’ll know.
(These are the days, )
Compiled from Genius Lyrics, Google, Wikipedia, Songfacts.com, and YouTube.
Felicia Denise, Author 