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Son: Dad, why does this sound like the whole room is about to start dancing?
Dad: Because in 1979, that's exactly what happened whenever this came on.
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Back Down Memory Lane is a lot sadder when you realize it's not a love song about romantic nostalgia and is instead her coping with terminal cancer
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Gabourey Sidibe REVEALS she used to work as a phone sex operator and was told to use the name "Becky" because she didn't sound Black. She explains that the company pushed her to sound like a white girl because that's what male callers expected, before opening up about the wild character scripts she wrote and the heartbreaking calls she took from deployed soldiers overseas.
"They gave me the name Becky because I was 21 and I had a high-pitched little voice... and it was a good thing to them that I didn't sound Black, because the men on the phone expect to speak to a white girl”
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Tina Turner coked out of her mind, wig strapped on tight and kicking her amazing long legs around doing the Nutbush is 🤌🤌🤌
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Tina Turner said she did not use drugs during her years with Ike Turner, who had a cocaine addiction. She told Rolling Stone: "I never did the drugs, never drank, never stooped to his level." rollingstone.com/feature/tina-t… biography.com/musicians/ike-…
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Shoutout to @JustWhitney07 for posting this...Whitney Houston was just DIFFERENT!! I wish we just got this take on the final version of "Lover For Life" 🥹🥹🥹🥹
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9th Wonder talks about how Beyoncé told him to re-work his sampled beats to Add Bridge sections for Michelle
"Beyoncé wanted to put her on all the Bridges by herself"
Monica’s recording of Misty Blue on her sophomore album was so refined, polished yet soulful. Mary closed out her live album with it and it’s utterly heartbreaking…so raw and gut wrenching. Both amazing renditions.
