I don’t want him to die though.’ So I wrote a song about those lyrics.” “So I remember she said to us, ‘I hope she breaks your heart. “I wrote that song for my mother, but it’s about how she felt about my dad when they got a divorce, when she found out about his infidelity,” Toni said. One of Toni’s favorite songs from her first new album since 2010’s Pulse, is “I Wish.” The song centers on the breakdown of her mother Evelyn‘s relationship with her father, Michael. He doesn’t know that, but we’re married.” “We’re both single, but sometimes you get stuck in the baby sister and the friend thing, and it’s there forever. “I used to have a terrible crush on him during the first album when we worked together, but then I realized he just sees me as a little sister so just be the little sister,” the Maryland native explained. They need to know you’re a musician.’ So I’ve been doing a lot more of that.”Īnd despite the steamy chemistry fans see the two R&B artists display on stage when they perform their #1 debut single, “Hurt You,” Toni maintains the two are strictly platonic friends. He said, ‘Toni, you’re a writer! You need to let people know this. “And when we get in the studio I’m always familiar and we can try things together. You know, he’s like my home town,” the 46-year-old mother of two told ABC News Radio outside a recent event for Gain laundry detergent in New York City at which she was performing last month. “He’s how I got in the business so it was very familiar, like being at home. The R&B singer said working with Babyface was like a homecoming of sorts. Now the two are back with a new album of duets titled Love, Marriage & Divorce.
The first single from her 1993 self-titled debut album, “Another Sad Love Song,” was written by Babyface, and much of that album was produced by the music mastermind.
T oni Braxton and Babyface have long made really good music together.