Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Nostalgia! Nostalgia! Nostalgia!!!
Oh wow, BET had its 25th Silver Anniversary Special on tonight and it was the BOMB!! It took me back to the period of music that I loved and enjoyed so much, and even performed myself during talent shows I participated in when in the military (oops yeah I'm dating myself). Aside from the musical genre being mostly black oriented the audience and musicians who participated -it was a racial mixture. Bravo! For all detractors of rap and so called urban music (african american) I ain't mad atcha ya, if you didn't watch...twas your loss not mine. I'm not fond of "Blue Grass" either so I dig where you are coming from...LOL!
If anyone reading this remembers back in the day...George Clinton--FLASHLIGHT and ATOMIC DOG, 'member the dude wearing the diaper and all those really strange outfitted characters...Earth Wind and Fire was on and Phillip Bailey can still hit some of those high notes...Hammer can still dance his ass off...LLCool J and Nelly were sounding good and looking buffed I mean to tell ya, like brick houses (something that doesn't interest me-but they looked good). Snoop and BowWow performed but the night was not at all about rap per se! Puff Daddy, PDiddy, Diddy, Puffy...whew! was there giving props not performing. New Edition performed and even let Bobby Brown (Mr rock n roll) do his thang-(My Perogative) and I thought that was a very giving and loving gesture, nuff said here. Mrs Bobby, Whitney was there as well and I must say looking very lovely at that! R Kelley performed (don't like him). Mary J. Blige as usual tore it up and so did Alicia Keyes. But better than all the earlier performers, the gospel folks I enjoyed the most...Kurt Franklin did his hip twistin, rap flavored bit for the lord..Yolanda Adams, my favorite gospel singer tore it up...Donnie McClurkin was good as usual and Shirley Caesar brought it all together when she followed and ended up the Gospel portion. Its really too bad that musical talent can't escape the problem of 'ism's, but that after all is the way thangs are..too bad so many miss out on being able to accept the diversity that exists among humanity. By the way Snoop was using a microphone especially made for him...bling bling!bling bling big time. And one of the musicians in the George Clinton segment was strumming a gorgeous white guitar adorned in what else but bling bling !bling bling! LOL
Twas a good show..catch it if you can.
Keeper....(Ms Rock 'n Roll)...lol
If anyone reading this remembers back in the day...George Clinton--FLASHLIGHT and ATOMIC DOG, 'member the dude wearing the diaper and all those really strange outfitted characters...Earth Wind and Fire was on and Phillip Bailey can still hit some of those high notes...Hammer can still dance his ass off...LLCool J and Nelly were sounding good and looking buffed I mean to tell ya, like brick houses (something that doesn't interest me-but they looked good). Snoop and BowWow performed but the night was not at all about rap per se! Puff Daddy, PDiddy, Diddy, Puffy...whew! was there giving props not performing. New Edition performed and even let Bobby Brown (Mr rock n roll) do his thang-(My Perogative) and I thought that was a very giving and loving gesture, nuff said here. Mrs Bobby, Whitney was there as well and I must say looking very lovely at that! R Kelley performed (don't like him). Mary J. Blige as usual tore it up and so did Alicia Keyes. But better than all the earlier performers, the gospel folks I enjoyed the most...Kurt Franklin did his hip twistin, rap flavored bit for the lord..Yolanda Adams, my favorite gospel singer tore it up...Donnie McClurkin was good as usual and Shirley Caesar brought it all together when she followed and ended up the Gospel portion. Its really too bad that musical talent can't escape the problem of 'ism's, but that after all is the way thangs are..too bad so many miss out on being able to accept the diversity that exists among humanity. By the way Snoop was using a microphone especially made for him...bling bling!bling bling big time. And one of the musicians in the George Clinton segment was strumming a gorgeous white guitar adorned in what else but bling bling !bling bling! LOL
Twas a good show..catch it if you can.
Keeper....(Ms Rock 'n Roll)...lol
Sunday, December 04, 2005
My Take on VH1 show
ahhh its finally ended, thats okay, it was long enough! First and foremost, I liked the show because the participants DID NOT take themselves seriously. They had enough guts to involve themselves in something that was intended to benefit some other party at the risk of opening themselves up to the scrutiny, laughter and criticism of the "perfect peeps." MORGAN Fairchild is still beautiful and fine as usual and Bai Ling is irrepresible and one of the best sports I've observed in a long time! I salute her for being so honest a being!
"Can They Sing"? hell nooooo, but they knew that from the get go...did they make me laugh...hell yes, but in a supportive way! Thing is- they did improve in many aspects from week to week cept for Bai, she is just a natural HAMMMMM and doesn't need anyone's approval...way ta go Bai.!
Keeper
