Here’s the full length music video to Larry “Phylle” Carter’s gay wedding anthem, “I Love Him.” The video is somewhat NSFW as it features a semi-nude shower erotic scene, so be forewarned.
Many of you may know Phylle as one of the stars of the YouTube reality show The Boyz Next Door.
The Atlanta resident is also legally married himself and was featured in our Who’s Who Guide to Black Gay Couples in the Media earlier this year (Editors Note: The man featured in the video with Phylle is an actor, not his real life partner).
Share your thoughts on the video and song below.
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I like the message of the song and the video. I hope people are inspired by it. On the downside, I wish that the mixing and mastering was a bit more thorough on the track. All the best to him with the 2015 Grammy submission!
Hate to say it but I feel like the video kinda messed the song up for me. Way to long and dramatical and frankly kinda boring. Still enjoy the song however and mos def thinks the dude has some talent.
“Dude has some talent” What that? Without auto tune, he would sound…well he would sound like me or if I’m being generous, Drake.
On a serious note, if you think this is good, remind me to never trust your album reviews. LOL
See there…I heard, watched, listened to him sing live at a “concert” on his web series at a club here in ATL and he sounded fine. Not saying he is a Teddy Pendergrass but as far as current mainstream singers go…he is doing the same thing everyone else is doing in the mainstream world so in that aspect he has talent.
You have a valid point there…the point about him NOT being Teddy. And y’all talk about why these British White soul singers are taking our thunder. This right here is some certified, heated up chipotle shit.
I know we’re talking about art which is very subjective, but I think its unfair to basically say that if a person is not The Greatest To Ever Do It, they’re wack by default. I get into the debate all the time about athletes. Like everyone gotta be on Lebron James status to even say they are talented. IMHO, Phylle has commercial skills and can sing. He’s no Usher or John Legend as far as range, but he’s def not far from artists like Frank Ocean vocally.
There is a difference from having a true singing voice and being musical and being commercial as you put it. Frank ocean may not have the greatest singing voice but he’s musical. He can play instruments. He writes his own music. He produces. And his live voice is not bad at all. Yes he may use auto tune on his albums but he sounds good live. This phylle guy, well if he wrote this, it’s not very good lyrically and I’m not even going into the overall production. I would not say this is good at all. I guess you’re speaking more in the sense that he’s good for a gay artist? @nick, this dude can not and I repeat, CAN NOT carry anyone’s tune live. It is what it is. I can’t either but you don’t see me making Cher-like auto-tuned love songs. But I ain’t mad at him for trying to make his paper.
Again, you’re entitled to your opinion. But I think you’re the one comparing him to others, not me. I’m basing my opinion solely on what I heard in this song and his full length album. Not basing it on what his credits were, how many instruments he plays and who was his childhood singing instructor, lol. I’ve heard Frank Ocean live, millions of people did on the Grammy Awards. He was horrible. But admittedly, he’s better than a lot of bad singers out there.
Wait. I’m confused. How you like this but hate Freefall? LOL They’re the same. This is just the music video form. LOL I pity the young masculine homosexual man who stumbles upon your review and spends his last $3.99 to buy this album based on your good word.
This is truly disturbing to me. More so than The Village Voice ranking Eminem a better MC than Nas. Nick Delmacy’s reviews used to mean something. It was the gold standard. Like Siskel and Ebert. Oh well. Everyone has a bad moment at some point. I’m holding out hope that @ocky hasn’t jumped the shark. LOL
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But I think that at the end of the day, we are all entitled to our own opinions. I def think Larry “Phylle” Carter can sing. He is not G.O.A.T. but yeah he can sing. At least give the brother that. There are worse male and female singers out there selling singles/albums.
He can sing.
As I said the other day, the video moves too slow. It is too gratuitous with the intro and break in the middle because… really, if you are in an empty theater you won’t hear anyone walking up behind you until they are 1.5 feet away. >_>
I just think the video could have been edited a little better. So, yeah, there needs to be a Version 2/Single Edit done for us with ADD.
@rolandgarros why u dragging dude thru the mud?! He’s not a bad singer at all, n I actually think the song is pretty good, eventho I agree w others abt the video. I hope ur not on that, ‘judging him by a diff standard becus he’s gay n we hear so much crap from gay artists’ shit!
N don’t get me on the ‘British invasion’! I just read an interview w Syleena Johnson sayin, ‘Sam smith is good, but u sound like Tank n what he’s been doing for years bro!’ Which is true as all outsides!
I don’t know what to make of what Syleena Johnson said but sadly it is true. The white soul artists get asked what they think makes people connect w/ their music. The usual response is that they sing from their heart. It makes me think, “So then where are black artists singing from???” LOL. Do you get me?
Syleena was 10000% correct. ‘Stay w Me’ sounds exactly like Tank, but Tank is a nastier vocalist, n obvs fine as all outsides. But Sam is white, gay n British, so he’s the 3rd coming (after Adele). Bottom line is that blk ppl also fall into pop vs soul lanes, but blk soul artists are ALWAYS overlooked when a whiite person comes in and does the same thing.
This. A thousand times, this.
Know, y’all know I loves me some top 40 pop. But white folks will not cross the color line to some deep soul from the likes of Ledesi, Algebra, Tank, Joe, or Jill Scott. It’s like they can’t handle it.
Now, I know a few black people who can list a tune of Garth, Carrie Underwood, or Jason Aldean (with his handsome seff) and even recognize who they are but I bet if you put Syleena Johnson in front of 95% of the Beckys and Tanners, they wouldn’t know who they were.
Sam Smith and Tank sound nothing alike
LOL. I’m really not hating on the dude. I’m just stating that it’s not my cup of tea. Obviously, what sounds good to my ear is different from some others. I wouldn’t say it’s the worst I’ve heard but my point is, how many of y’all done hit the replay button to listen to it again? Be honest.
Ur right, I may not be bumping it, but it’s def solid enough for me support him as a black gay artist. He’s not untalented. N yea, a part of that is def him bein blk n gay, but blk n gay will not earn my lil $20 I got after the student loan office gets to me every damn pay check! But I’ll support him if his music keeps making sense.
This was nice! I do think the video was a bit excessively lengthy, but otherwise I loved the song.
@Phylle I love this song and video. Awesome job @Phylle
For what its worth Phylle is really easy on the eyes, and the fact that he showcases positive masculinish black gay couples,earns him cool points in my book, but i’m sorry as far as his singing voice, the production of this song, and music video, all of which comes off very bland and lackluster. If this is just a wedding song to be heard by a few, that’s understandable.If hes actually trying to catapult a music career with this song, then he’s going have to go back to the drawing board on the music tip, because as innovative as a gay BLACK man singing to his male lover is. There is nothing in this world that could extract the pure and unconcentrated meritocracy from this song
first he needs to pick better ballads that suite his his voice.Though he has tone, his range is limited and the “serenade my lover” style of R&B he chooses to sings require rip and runs that my mans’s just cannot execute. secondly he needs to find a producer that’s good at arranging and producing a sound that can balance out or at best supersede phylle’s voice. if he cant win us over with strong vocals, at least have a catchy tune.lastly this home video style needs to be scrapped,the video audio quality was actually pretty good,the story boarding, directing(too many cutaways unnecessary closeups etc…),and editing(amateur fade-aways) is what made this video look cheap. I’m all for gay representation in music, but i’m not putting gay rose colored glasses on for anybody.
I couldn’t get passed the auto tune to even want to listen to the song……
I’m with @African King. The song isn’t bad, but I have to also agree with @Controlled Chaos…the editing of the video is a bit off for me. If you want to make a featurette that revolves around a song, then do that. I wouldn’t call this more of a video. The long breaks in the music to convey the story were a bit off-putting for me. The story is nice tho and Phylle and his husband are pretty easy on the eyes.