Miami dance music icon Stevie B is waxing nostalgic, with a new single and music video that recalls the heyday of the Miami club scene “back in the day.” In Take It All Back (DJ Sama Remix), the accomplished singer, songwriter, and record producer returns to the South Florida club scene of the ‘80s and ‘90s, in an energetic reprise of the party atmosphere that characterized the era and locale. Stevie B, a Florida native, pays electric tribute to the moves and sounds that essentially became identified with his genre, hinting “I know you miss it”, invoking the carefree life of an earlier epoch. The artist achieved a number one single in 1990, when Because I Love You (The Postman Song)soared to the top of Billboard’s famous Hot 100 chart and lived there for four consecutive weeks. Stevie’s body of work is indelibly part of the soundtrack of the period.
Take it All Back comes full circle from those heady days of dusk-to-dawn partying among the swaying palm trees on the ocean, complete with imagery straight out a period when “the world wasn’t so uptight”. The Hi-NRG pioneer gets top marks for reminding us of a time before cell phones, the Internet, social media, and the stark divisions overtaking our society today. The lyrics, interspersed with footage from Stevie’s legendary concerts of yore, bespeak the night: just the club, and the music, and having a blast. Pulling back the temporal veil, Stevie reminisces and invites the listener to savor the experience, not for attention or “likes”, but simply to live in the moment, creating something unforgettable.
It’s perhaps instructive to note the longevity of music from the ‘80s, and it’s not unusual at all to hear songs of three and four decades ago, pumping at today’s clubs, or party cruises, and even at the airport or train station. “They say good music never gets old,” the lyrics insist (it’s true!). Stevie understands that there was an elemental magic that moved us to those beats once upon a time, and there is value, too, in “taking it all back”. Looking at the road behind us, can also point us forward, and perhaps if we took a night off, got “a fade, put on a pair of Pumas”, and went off to party with Stevie and Felix on a midsummer night in, say, around 1987, we might return with a fresh perspective to guide us through the present. You can take your own journey down memory lane with Stevie B here, and follow his upcoming events and performances at the artist’s official website.
