Forget Me Nots – Patrice Rushen (1982)

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Additional information about this, Patrice Rushen vinyl art.

Patrice Rushen – The Artist

Patrice Louise Rushen (born, 1954) is an American jazz pianist, R&B singer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director. At the 25th Annual Grammy Awards, her 1982 single, “Forget Me Nots”, received a nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, while her instrumental song, “Number One” was nominated Best R&B Instrumental; both songs were from her seventh studio album, Straight from the Heart (1982).Since 2008, Rushen has served as an ambassador for artistry in education at the Berklee College of Music, and the chair of the popular music program at the USC Thornton School of Music from 2014 to 2024. Rushen’s songs are sampled often in other artists’ music. The chorus from “Forget Me Nots” was used as the music for the 1997 song “Men in Black”. Rushen was credited as writer and composer, along with Will Smith and Terri McFadden. The same chorus can be heard in George Michael’s song “Fastlove”.

Forget Me Nots- The Song

“Forget Me Nots” is a song by American R&B musician Patrice Rushen, released in April 1982 by Elektra Records as the first single from her seventh album, Straight from the Heart (1982). The song is co-written by Rushen with Freddie Washington and Terri McFaddin, and was produced by Rushen. It received very little support from the record label, but became successful on the charts, peaking at No. 23 and 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, as well as No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart. It also earned Rushen her first nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 1983 Grammy Awards. Since its release, the song has been sampled and interpolated in several songs, including “Fastlove” by George Michael in 1996 and “Men in Black” by Will Smith in 1997. The lyrics are from the point of view of one professing her longing for a rekindling with an ex-lover. In one part of the music video, the girlfriend of the ex turns her attention to another man. As the singer reunites with the ex, they vacate the premises, leaving the now-ex-girlfriend forlorn. She ruminates on the romance’s end and sends the lover forget-me-nots, a flower that since medieval times has been given and worn to symbolise enduring love despite absence or separation.

The Forget Me Not – The Shape

This record has been modelled into the silhouette of the Forget Me Not Flower. Myosotis is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family Boraginaceae. In the Northern Hemisphere, they are colloquially known as forget-me-nots or scorpion grasses. The forget-me-not is the official flower of Alaska. Since medieval times the Forget Me Not has been given and worn to symbolise enduring love despite absence or separation. Myosotis species are annual or perennial, herbaceous, flowering plants with pentamerous actinomorphic flowers. Their foliage is alternate, and their roots are generally diffuse. They typically flower in spring or soon after the melting of snow in alpine ecosystems. Flowers are borne on scorpioid cymes; they are flatly faced, with a typical diameter of 1 cm (1⁄2 in) or less; they are coloured typically blue, but sometimes pink, white or yellow. Its centre consists of five anthers each on filaments fused to the petals, they are surrounded by yellow bumps called “fornices”. The seeds are contained in small, tulip-shaped pods along the stem to the flower. The pods attach to clothing when brushed against and eventually fall off, leaving the small seed within the pod to germinate elsewhere.

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