tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post109798397409835004..comments2024-03-28T02:15:29.817-05:00Comments on Mouse Words: Gladys KnightAmanda Marcottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05098500818240791320noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1127157294834159292005-09-19T14:14:00.000-05:002005-09-19T14:14:00.000-05:00this is a nice canon pc980 toner blogthis is a nice canon pc980 toner blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1120166894307747132005-06-30T16:28:00.000-05:002005-06-30T16:28:00.000-05:00ur an idiot!!!of course tina turner started her fu...ur an idiot!!!of course tina turner started her fuckin career singing nothing BUT SOUL music!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669068.post-1098048006576457742004-10-17T16:20:00.000-05:002004-10-17T16:20:00.000-05:00I still think "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" i...I still think "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is one of the great r&b records. I get excited every time I hear the opening riff. I saw Gladys and the Pips in concert many years in ago, and they were great. <br /><br />So many wonderful singers came out of that era: Gladys, Aretha, Ronnie Spector, and the great and practically forgotten Darlene Love. <br /><br />In addition to the sexism to which you referred, there is also a subtle form of racism that occurs when singers are classified. For example, one of my favorite singers of all time and one of my childhood idols--LaVern Baker--is constantly referred to as an r&b singer, and she wasn't. In fact, her refusal to do straight r&b was one of the things that messed up her career (the other being that white people kept ruining her songs and then making a fortune off of them). <br /><br />Not long ago, I was browsing the cd's in Barnes & Noble, and I saw Tina Turner among the "soul" stacks. Tina Turner has never sung soul music in her life. Missing from the stacks, however, were Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox. If you're black, you automatically get classified as a soul singer. If you're white, you can't get the classification--at least not at Barnes & Noble.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07124489754017593105noreply@blogger.com