We ended up watching this 2009 Tina Turner performance of Proud Mary. God she is so special. #YoutubeMusicGems #BlackMusic #TinaTurner #Rock #music
Compare and contrast to this performance nearly 30 years later - Tina is having the time of her life and so is everyone there. They're all riding the organic high of joy and excellence that comes from genuine enjoyment of one's own excellence onstage. Truly a beautiful moment, especially if you like pretty ladies dancing sexy. And the song is funny, and new to me. #music #misandry #YouTubeMusicGems
I know nothing of 70s television or else I'd probably know who these white people are... Anyway, in their introduction of Sylvester, they place them alongside the Village People and Grace Jones as people who will become "legends" and nostalgic avatars of the #disco #music just as Elvis Presley & Little Richard are for rock.
You may have heard about how the anti-disco music "movement" was in fact a racist & sexist backlash against the popularity of a genre where many stars were Black & queer - case in point, Sylvester, "flamboyant king--and queen!--of disco." Here in 1978 with Two Tons of Fun, taking the crowd to church with "Disco Heat" #disco #70s #gospel #music
Pretty wild to be listening to #ska & #rocksteady with someone who remembers actually skanking like an absolute villain, as a wild & free teenage girl in Jamaica, when those songs came out
E.g. One of MIL's favorites: "Enjoy Yourself" by Prince Buster
Calypso Rose! She's amazing! Her latest album is from 2016, when she was 76. This song, Calypso Queen, is basically her flexing on everyone else in the business:
"They say that I reign too long
Forgetting that mi constitution is strong
Instead of respecting mi long long reign,
They making plot to take down mi name"
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Calypso Rose! Listen up fuckos! She is the queen of #calypso and #soca #music. From Tobago, she started singing professionally when she was a 15 year old girl. Now she's in her 80s & basically the last one standing from her musical cohort. Here she is being cheeky & sassy in the 80s (shocking some of the audience a bit I think).
The post brought to you by the Long Walk to Freedom concert given for/by Buju Banton, who just spent 8 years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking. The awesome thing is that Jamaicans dgaf. Everyone who's anyone in reggae & dancehall is there, including Marcia Griffiths, Coco Tea, Koffee (a teenage girl with intense lyrical skills), & more. Here's Ghost doing, among other things, "Call Me Al" (Paul Simon) and "Life After Love" (Cher) #YouTubeMusicGems
Grace Jones dances with half a mannequin in "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)"
Spouse: I'm grateful for people like her.
Me: We all should be!
#Music #performance #PerformanceArt #GraceJones
https://youtu.be/YMCKj6LDZ2U
Peter Tosh on MAGA before there was MAGA:
"Sorry fi maga dog
Him turn around bite you"
Sally Strange