Forever More

Album: Love And Emotion (1990)
Charted: 96
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Songfacts®:

  • Stevie B is best known for his #1 ballad "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)," but most of his songs are dance bangers like this one, where he promises his girl his undying love.

    Freestyle was big in the mid-to-late '80s, mostly in clubs but sometimes getting pop radio airplay for artists like Exposé and Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam. It was characterized by electronic beats and a Latin flavor. In the '90s it merged with hip-hop to form a new strain of dance-pop that proved very popular. Technotronic, Paula Adbul and Snap! all had big hits with it. As part of this hip-hop evolution, there were often little rap interludes in the songs, as there is on "Forever More."
  • "Forever More" was written by Warren Allen Brooks, the same guy who wrote "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)" and another Stevie B hit, "Love And Emotion." In a Songfacts interview with Brooks, he explained how the song came together: "Steve bought me a 4-track and told me to start writing more songs for him. So I started writing him more songs, and the first song I wrote was 'Forever More.' I used an SQ80 keyboard and a drum machine."
  • The French part at the beginning was spoken by Claudette DeBarros, who was Stevie's girlfriend. She's credited on the album.
  • According to the song's writer, Warren Allen Brooks, "Forever More" was influenced musically by Milli Vanilli, who were huge at the time. This was before it was revealed that they didn't sing on their tracks.

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