To hell with Whitney Houston's comeback! Somebody call Gladys...
I saw Tyler Perry's movie "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" starring Taraji P. Henson (my girl)! I interviewed her a while ago and she talked to me about this movie and how it was her first starring role and all the wonderful people who were going to be acting in the production, including the legendary Gladys Knight! That's right, Gladys! She has been laying low for a while but she's back, on the big screen, in a Tyler Perry production no less. I asked Taraji if Gladys would be singing and she didn't reveal it, girlfriend told me I'd have to go and check out the movie for myself!
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Well I did and let's just say Gladys is still blowing! As far as I'm concerned, the $7 I paid to see the movie was worth it just to see Gladys Knight! She stole the movie! She sounds now the same way she did back when she was hanging out with The Pips! Just listening to her voice in that movie theater sent chills through my spine! I don't even remember what the damned story line was about, but I left the theater humming that tune Gladys sang in that night club scene! And we ain't even gonna talk about the church scene when she went up to the front of the congregation and belted out an old Negro spiritual that had Jesus clapping!
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I started thinking about all the good old school singers like Gladys, Patti LaBelle, Mavis Staples... the list could go on and on! All these singing sensations need someone like Clive Davis to put money and muscle behind their "comeback"! But instead, they wasted millions on that damned Whitney Houston! What was that all about?
They say "Whitney is coming back!" Guess what? Whitney never left. I saw her ass every day on Bravo TV high as a kite on that horribly awful Being Bobby Brown show! Then she was in the tabloids and on all the tabloid websites with photos of her looking like Tyrone Biggums--CRACKED OUT! Lips ashy, elbows ashy, wig on backwards and thin as a rail! Yet, somehow, someone thought it would be good to just throw away $10 million on her ass and prop her up and pray she stays sober long enough to go on Orpah, Good Morning America and The Today Show to promote the album! Let's just say I don't know one person who has the album. I don't even know one person who has burned the album or ripped it off someone else's computer. Nobody even wants it! I don't know if sales put her on Billboard's Top 1,000 charts or not. Especially after her ill-fated voice crackin' performance she did on morning television.
Good singers, ones that stand the test of time like Ms. Gladys don't do crack and their voices don't crack either. If somebody got Clive Davis on speed dial, tell him to drop that zero Whitney and get a hero like Gladys Knight on his team. It's time for real singers who can SING to make a comeback. I'm old school, but I like watching Ciarra dance and I enjoy seeing Taylor Swift belt out a tune, but baby, when I want someone to speak to my soul and sing me out of a depression, can't nobody do it like Gladys Knight. When you start off listening to a song and you're sad when the artist is done singing, and your spirits are lifted up to the clouds, that's when you know you've been touched by a real SINGER! And that's what Ms. Gladys Knight is, a true bonafide super duper singer!!! She can take a song and make your heart skip a beat with it; if you're sad the song Gladys is singing will lift your spirits. Hell, I've been happy and listened to a Gladys Knight love song and grabbed a bottle cause it brought me down to where she was. I could feel that raw emotion and power! She don't just sing, she sanggggggggggs!
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Well I did and let's just say Gladys is still blowing! As far as I'm concerned, the $7 I paid to see the movie was worth it just to see Gladys Knight! She stole the movie! She sounds now the same way she did back when she was hanging out with The Pips! Just listening to her voice in that movie theater sent chills through my spine! I don't even remember what the damned story line was about, but I left the theater humming that tune Gladys sang in that night club scene! And we ain't even gonna talk about the church scene when she went up to the front of the congregation and belted out an old Negro spiritual that had Jesus clapping!
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I started thinking about all the good old school singers like Gladys, Patti LaBelle, Mavis Staples... the list could go on and on! All these singing sensations need someone like Clive Davis to put money and muscle behind their "comeback"! But instead, they wasted millions on that damned Whitney Houston! What was that all about?
They say "Whitney is coming back!" Guess what? Whitney never left. I saw her ass every day on Bravo TV high as a kite on that horribly awful Being Bobby Brown show! Then she was in the tabloids and on all the tabloid websites with photos of her looking like Tyrone Biggums--CRACKED OUT! Lips ashy, elbows ashy, wig on backwards and thin as a rail! Yet, somehow, someone thought it would be good to just throw away $10 million on her ass and prop her up and pray she stays sober long enough to go on Orpah, Good Morning America and The Today Show to promote the album! Let's just say I don't know one person who has the album. I don't even know one person who has burned the album or ripped it off someone else's computer. Nobody even wants it! I don't know if sales put her on Billboard's Top 1,000 charts or not. Especially after her ill-fated voice crackin' performance she did on morning television.
Good singers, ones that stand the test of time like Ms. Gladys don't do crack and their voices don't crack either. If somebody got Clive Davis on speed dial, tell him to drop that zero Whitney and get a hero like Gladys Knight on his team. It's time for real singers who can SING to make a comeback. I'm old school, but I like watching Ciarra dance and I enjoy seeing Taylor Swift belt out a tune, but baby, when I want someone to speak to my soul and sing me out of a depression, can't nobody do it like Gladys Knight. When you start off listening to a song and you're sad when the artist is done singing, and your spirits are lifted up to the clouds, that's when you know you've been touched by a real SINGER! And that's what Ms. Gladys Knight is, a true bonafide super duper singer!!! She can take a song and make your heart skip a beat with it; if you're sad the song Gladys is singing will lift your spirits. Hell, I've been happy and listened to a Gladys Knight love song and grabbed a bottle cause it brought me down to where she was. I could feel that raw emotion and power! She don't just sing, she sanggggggggggs!
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Comment by MargaretC on November 16, 2009 at 12:39pm - I wanted to see Melinda Doolittle from American Idol become on of those. She gives me chills.
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Comment by Andrea Kish on November 15, 2009 at 9:30pm - Love it. A few years ago I created a short list of performers who I really wanted to see in person, and the one that's left is Gladys Knight. She is smooth, she sings fantastically, she's classy, and she's still gorgeous. I may not look like it, but I'm a Motown girl, all the way. Grew up in a town outside of Detroit in the 60's and early 70's, and it's in my blood. I'm a white, curly-haired jewish girl, but I grew up singing into a hairbrush pretending to be a Pip. I knew I couldn't pretend to be Gladys, but I could pretend to be a Pip. Yours in awe of Ms. Knight, Andrea
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