So even if you didn’t own a nice couch or a large bathtub, you could turn on the radio and settle into the swoon of the music itself, and find yourself drawn into a desire deep enough to seem closer to unconscious dreaming than physical reality. The format particularly excelled at simulating the slow-motion atmosphere of romance, a physical and mental connection so strong it could make the molecules in the air around it lag. This is the lifestyle of comfort and intimacy that the genre implicitly sold to its listeners, soul music one could sink into after a long day of work, like a couch or a bath or a steady long-term relationship. There is a haze of steam in the air, the sound of bathwater running in another room. Indoors, sealed away from the weather, someone sheds their coat and it forms a soft vortex on a bare wood floor. Play “ Choosey Lover” by the Isley Brothers or even Smokey Robinson’s original “ Quiet Storm.” Notice how the skies in those songs are bruised with dark purple clouds, thunder brewing inside them. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Quiet storm, a Black radio format that developed in the late-’70s around pebble-smooth R&B balladry, is one of the rare subgenre names that suggests the ideal context for itself.
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