"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars"
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Coming from a musician whose career helped define modern R&B’s romantic vocabulary, the line reads like an artist admitting what pop culture often hides in plain sight: music doesn’t exist in a silo. It borrows film’s close-ups and slow-motion longing; it sells a star persona the way Hollywood does, with lighting, styling, and myth. Babyface has always understood that the product isn’t just the song, it’s the feeling of being inside a scene. That’s why “movie stars” lands as hard as “movies.” The star is the fantasy of a life upgraded, a body and face turned into a storyline you can project onto.
The subtext is slightly wistful, too. Calling it “the most exciting thing” hints at a world where day-to-day life, especially for working people, can feel flat. Movies supply intensity on demand, and stars function as emotional shortcuts: desire, aspiration, escape, all pre-packaged. In the late-20th-century media ecosystem that shaped Edmonds, that wasn’t a guilty pleasure - it was the cultural mainline.
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Edmonds, Kenneth. (2026, January 17). The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-most-exciting-thing-for-all-of-us-is-movies-61864/
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"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-most-exciting-thing-for-all-of-us-is-movies-61864/. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.









