Teena Marie - Cupid Is A Real Straight Shooter 1990 Lyrics in Info video free download

Teena R.I.P. and Thank you for sharing your gifts !

from her 9th Album "Ivory" 1990

an imho opinion underrated album.

......lyrics..........

I might as well be wearing rose-colored glasses

Looking at the world through rose-colored you

For you know your smile is ever convincing me

That nobody else's love will ever do

Can I speak of you

My lips know nothing but your name

Can I speak of passion

Without feeling guilt or shame

Heaven must have known I needed something real

To call my very own

Cupid is a real straight shooter

Looks like he got me, shot me

Cupid is a real straight shooter

Looks like he got me, shot me

With your love

Shot me with your love

LOVE love

Did you say the sky was turquoise and orange

Well deep inside my heart I know that this is true

For your smile is ever convincing me

That nobody else's love will ever do

Can I speak of hearts and ancient art as passionate

Can I talk eternal and will you know what I meant

Heaven must have known I needed your heart for my special valentine

Cupid is a real straight shooter

Looks like he got me, shot me

Cupid is a real straight shooter

Looks like he got me

Gone and shot me with your love, L O V E

Gone and shot me with your love, L O O V E, love

Sent from up above

Cupid won't you send out this my special valentine

Won't you shoot your arrows high

Hey shoot 'em up sky high

Hey and it's all about your love

I wrote a song about you, baby

I'm gonna tell the world, how much I love you

Give it to me

Heaven must have known I needed you

Baby to call my very own

Cupid is a real straight shooter

Cupid draw back your bow, and let your arrow flow

Straight to my lover's heart for me

Shoot me with your love

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Biography by Alex Henderson

No white artist has sang R&B more convincingly than Teena Marie, whose big, robust vocals are so black-sounding that when she was starting out, some listeners wondered if she was a light-skinned African-American. Not to be confused with Brazilian jazz singer Tânia Maria, Marie grew up in west Los Angeles in a neighborhood that was nicknamed "Venice Harlem" because of its heavy black population. The singer/songwriter/producer was in her early twenties when, around 1977, she landed a job at Motown Records. It was at Motown that she met her mentor and paramour-to-be, Rick James, who ended up doing all of the writing and producing for her debut album of 1979, Wild and Peaceful. That LP, which boasted her hit duet with James, "I'm Just a Sucker for Your Love," didn't show Marie's picture -- so many programmers at black radio just assumed she was black. When her second album, Lady T, came out, much of the R&B world was shocked to see how fair-skinned she was. But to many of the black R&B fans who were eating her music up, it really didn't matter -- the bottom line was she was a first-rate soul singer whose love of black culture ran deep.

By her third album, 1980's gold Irons in the Fire, Marie was doing most of her own writing and producing. That album boasted the major hit "I Need Your Lovin'," and Marie went gold again with her next album, It Must Be Magic (which included the major hit "Square Biz"). It Must Be Magic turned out to be her last album for Motown, which she had a nasty legal battle with. Marie got out of her contract with Motown, and the case ended up with the courts passing what is known as "The Teena Marie Law" -- which states that a label cannot keep an artist under contract without putting out an album by him or her.

Switching to Epic in 1983, Marie recorded her fifth album, Robbery, and had a hit with "Fix It." In 1984, Marie recorded her sixth album, Starchild, and had her biggest pop hit ever with "Lovergirl." Though Marie had often soared to the top of the R&B charts, "Lovergirl" marked the first time she'd done so well in the pop market. Ironically, Marie was a white singer who had enjoyed little exposure outside the R&B market prior to "Lovegirl."

Three more Epic albums followed: 1986's Emerald City, 1988's Naked to the World (which contained her smash hit "Ooh La La La"), and 1990's Ivory. Unfortunately, Marie's popularity had faded considerably by the late '80s, and Epic dropped her. In 1994, the singer released Passion Play on her own Sarat label. Ten years later, she signed to Cash Money and released La Doña, featuring assistance from Gerald LeVert, Rick James, and MC Lyte. Sapphire followed two years later.

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