In the ‘40s, he was a hapless everyman, batted about by modern life in parody instructional shorts. I know of three roads to get to A Goofy Movie. Since Campbell is an avatar for being stuck in the teenage limbo of growing up too fast (or not growing up fast enough), he’s well suited to the movie’s themes of the pains of adolescence and the rewards of being yourself.ĭoes the thing that makes you different also make you special? How can you follow in someone’s footsteps and still be your own man? How soon is now? In A Goofy Movie, it takes the embarrassing process of growing up to be an original-the road trip between your inheritance (what you’re given) and your destiny (what you do with it). For winter break in his junior year, he even toured with Boyz II Men.Ĭampbell’s musical style and teen appeal made him a good match to voice Powerline-the “biggest rock star on the planet”-in 1995’s enduring classic, A Goofy Movie. It’s something we think about, so it’s reality.” His private life and his star image chased each other through all of puberty, a switchback of crayons and cologne.
“Kids experience things at a young age,” Campbell said, “and even if they haven’t experienced it, it’s on their minds. In 1994, Seventeen asked him about “those supersexy Prince numbers” on his album I’m Ready 1 : “Are you as, um, experienced as those songs suggest?” Discovered at age 12 by Quincy Jones and collaborating with Prince by 17, Tevin Campbell was the early ‘90s boy king of R&B, caught between his grown-up songs and his-not nearly grown enough-self. “Can We Talk” is a bit of a vision board, a smooth operator manifested by a teen, as true of the kid in the video as its singer. You have to be old enough to sit in the front seat, but no one’s too young to feel any particular kind of way.
The comments agree that the kid is awfully young to act so old he’s “lil man,” “old soul,” “big homie.” But he’s not emotionally precocious, if there is such a thing. As he’s careful to film the proceedings without influencing them, we see brotherly love in the camera angle. “f*** it up young fella,” reads the older brother’s caption. He’s sharply dressed, word-perfect on Tevin Campbell’s “Can We Talk.” Too young to sit in the front seat, probably on his way home from school, he’s singing about getting a second chance, yearning, regret. Here’s what we know about the kid in the video : he’s in the backseat (and another world) getting chauffeured around by his older brother.
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