Word: singed
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...couple other shows in the '80s with ridiculous names and they sort of seemed all the same: a lot of creepily stage-managed kids and then a lot of people who are just trying so hard that they're pandering. There was always some 45-year-old dude singing "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie." When they were trying to introduce karaoke to the U.S. in the '80s you had a lot of people who were raised to think that if you can't sing you shouldn't sing. But with American Idol, now if you ask any 19-year...
...black singers, their discography is an aural history, centuries deep, of abduction, enslavement, social and sexual abuse by the whites in power - and of the determination first to outlive the ignominy branded on the race, then to overcome it. In her commanding presence, charismatic delivery and determination to sing black truth to white power, Odetta was the female Paul Robeson. (See the 100 best albums of all time...
...later years, Odetta collaborated on a dozen or more albums (dueting with Nanci Griffith, for instance, on Other Voices, Too). She recorded a collection of Christmas spirituals and did tribute albums to Ella Fitzgerald, Leadbelly and blues thrushes of the 1930s. In her 60s and 70s, she still could sing the hide off a traditional number. Evidence: this rendition of "Midnight Special" (see below...
...death in New York City, Odetta had an Obama poster taped on the wall across from her bed. Hospitalized with kidney failure on Monday, she kept willing herself to live because, her manager Doug Yeager wrote on a fansite just before her death, "Odetta believes she is going to sing at Obama's Inauguration, and I believe that is the reason she is still alive...
...fascination that so many of my friends have with that live video of little puppies.In short, I am the anti-Disney.So when somebody played me “Year 3000,” by the Jonas Brothers, I was ready to rail against it. Those Jonas boys looked too happy singing that “not much has changed, but they live underwater.” What were they smiling about all the time? How exactly would the future be the same if we were all submerged underwater? Were they really related, and if so, why was one so much uglier...