I’m telling on my age with this entry, but I remember when this song came out. ‘Lil Tevin Campbell influenced pretty much every black middle school music teacher in the country, and kids everywhere were forced sing “Tomorrow” at some kind of assembly. It held this position of “Positive Ballad of Choice for America’s Black Youth” for years, until R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” eventually took it’s spot.
Still, I can’t front. This song is as uplifting as it gets! If I woke up in the morning and heard that playing on the radio, I’d think to myself “I can do ANYTHING! I’m running for President! OF THE EARTH! I can do it, because Tevin said so, right there in the song! We’re never far away. No! Never! THE PROMISE OF TODAY!”
Despite Tevin Campbell growing up to be a gay hooker solicitor, this song stands the test of time as far as inspiration goes. I’m going to build a house with my bare hands and learn Mandarin Chinese tonight after work. Why? Because this song makes me believe that I can do it!
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Leave Tevin and his solicitation of gay hookers alone. :P
But seriously, no one can listen to this song and not be put in a better mood or motivated in some capacity. Or at least in the mood to sing the song. :)
Anyone NOT uplifted by this song is a Commie bastard!
Hands down one of the most inspirational black songs that was in the 90s. everything else was most about sex,liberations, blah blah blah.