The Makings of You

Album: Bluebird of Happiness (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song samples Gladys Knight & The Pips' cover of Curtis Mayfield's "The Makings of You." Tamar Braxton explained to Billboard:

    "Gladys has been such an amazing role model for my family. I remember when my parents got divorced, she used to call my mom all the time and just talk. For me, it just meant a lot that I could put a throwback like that on my record and in her throwback greatness. Had we not been allowed to use this sample, I wouldn't have used it at all because I didn't want to change it and I didn't want to fabricate the amazingness of that record and what that record meant to my mom back in the day.

    'Makings of You' represents the strength of a woman and it comes from a movie called Claudine. Claudine had six kids and she raised them by herself and through it all, she figured out her life."

Comments: 1

  • Isah Ganda from South Africa Gauteng Johannesburg Tamar Braxton finally you shine like the star you are. You deserve all things beautiful and great when I listen to your music girl i feel blessed and empowered.
    You indeed brought light and change in to my life I THANK GOD for you. Yesssssss kill it ghel it's your time so JuST shineeeeeeeeee I've got mega love for you tay tay . You triiiiiied me
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