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When it came out, I'm like what's it going to do the first week, the second week? I began thinking like a commercial artist again. What was your reaction when you first heard "Hurt You" on the radio? Braxton: That was one of the first songs we wrote and recorded. Toni has grown a lot and had a lot more to offer in terms of writing and debating what the lyrics should or shouldn't be and the structure of the songs. Babyface: Before, it was Toni, this is what we're going to do.

I'm sorry, Kenny, you have to have a vagina to understand that. So sometimes we bumped heads creatively, of course. But I'm also coming from a lady's perspective and he's coming from a guy's.

#TONI BRAXTON AND BABYFACE SONGS LIST HOW TO#

So he's been helping me become disciplined in my artistry because I forgot how to do that. He's played songs and I've said, Kenny that's a great song, that's it.

And you both co-wrote the songs? Braxton: Yes. Talk to me." When I started talking to him about my life, where I was personally with my divorce, he said I needed to talk about it, to make this therapeutic. Braxton: At one point as we were talking about the project, Kenny said, "OK, Toni. Babyface: Covers … that would have been kind of predictable. Pretty much for me I was moving in the dark, feeling my way around. Wasn't it rumored early on that this would be a covers album? Braxton: We talked about a lot of different ideas, including incorporating some covers and doing original duets. He's my husband, really … my musical husband. But this is the first time we've worked together in a while. I would always try to get a Kenny song on all of my projects. That's how you have to think of music now. Think about the artist who loves painting by himself and draws this beautiful portrait. Don't think just about the commercial part of being the artist. He told me just sing the song and enjoy it. Braxton: Kenny has been showing me how to stop thinking like an artist and just be who I am. We could have gone after it and nothing could have happened. Let's go back into the studio, figure out what to say and do it in a way where it's fun and feels good. That's what our goal was when we sat down again. When you can touch people, you just don't give up on it. But at the same time you owe it to your fans as well as to yourself to push beyond those feelings because you were given a gift. So I got it when Toni said she was tired of it. Then you find yourself being a little gun shy worried about people's opinions. Every artist gets caught up in that at some point. And in that process you can you're your love of doing music that just comes out naturally.

What coaxed you both back into the studio?īabyface: Artists who have done a lot of albums can sometimes get to the point where doing songs becomes more about making sure you can get a hit single. And Babyface, it's been six years between solo albums for you. Below, she and Babyface recount their journey through "Love, Marriage & Divorce." Billboard: Toni, at one point you said you were done with music. Reid and Babyface-helmed La Face Records, will also publish her memoir, "Unbreak My Heart" (HarperCollins) on May 20. 11), a three-week guest stint together in Broadway's "After Midnight" (starting March 18) as well as a concert tour later this year. Their enduring chemistry has already spun off the top 15 R&B hit "Hurt You" and new second single "Where Did We Go Wrong?" Upcoming appearances for the duo include TV's "Good Morning America" (airing Feb. 4), the 11-track set delivers a soulful treatise on relationships sensuously narrated by Babyface's silky tenor and Braxton's earthy, deep vocals. Now Toni Braxton and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds have reunited for the duets album, "Love, Marriage & Divorce" (Motown). Meanwhile the only Grammy he won during the first two decades of the 21 st century was for 2014’s “Love, Marriage & Divorce” (alongside Toni Braxton). And on top of serving as a vocalist he also co-wrote practically the entire album and produced every track on it.They first sang together on the 1992 R&B/pop hit "Give U My Heart" from the "Boomerang" soundtrack. In fact he actually wrote most of the songs on Toni’s first two albums, which were both very successful. So that is why for instance even if he doesn’t trend like he used to, in 2014 NME still placed him in the top half of their list of the 50 of the Greatest Producers Ever. Moreover 10 of those Grammys actually came during the 1990s. That is to say that decade was the heyday of his career, and during that time Babyface’s name was synonymous with the overall American R&B scene. For instance, a label he co-founded, LaFace Records, launched the careers of Usher, TLC and Toni Braxton.