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(Nothing wrong with any of this, so don't jump on me. I just think there's a little bit of truth in some stereotypes.)
Cute picture, still!
…and I'd say that the gay boys simply have no ability to truly appreciate the full Donna Summers. Just looking at the album cover and art for Bad Girls catapulted me into a better understanding of my own sexuality. :-)
Does anyone remember Donna doing "Poppa Can You Hear Me?" at the Oscars. It was the same year Jennifer Holliday sang "The Way He Makes Me Feel." Two exquisite moments in Oscar history.
Thanks for everything, Ms. Donna. Little Terry. Happy at last.
So today in our office we are in mourning.
MOURNING WITH AN ALL-DAY SEXY DANCE PARTY!
Adorable pic BTW. RIP Donna.
The listening to pop music while hiding under the sheets at night resonated so much with me (mine were Raggedy Ann, by the way). My parents weren't evangelical, but they were older (when I was born, my dad was 45 and my mom was 36, and I was the first child for both of them), and 70s and 80s music kind of scared them, so I wasn't allowed to listen to it.
But then I got an AM/FM radio for my birthday. It was from Radio Shack, and it was stuck into the stomach of a stuffed racoon. The racooon provided just enough muffling that, if I laid my head on it, I could keep the volume low enough that my dad wouldn't hear it when he walked by my room on the way to the bathroom at night.
Thanks for sharing!
And, good to know that someone else performs their own musicals. The world could use more people like us.
"At my Evangelical Christian middle school we were forced to attend lectures on "Rock 'n' Roll and Satanism"."
I remember those. It led my older brother to shoot up dad's KISS album with a BB gun. It led me to collecting records and musicology, and much laughter later in life over the paranoia about AC/DC. (Turns out they were a bad-ass rock band, not a bisexual conspiracy!)
Rest In Peace, Donna Summer
Hugs to Terry today.
This makes me cry. The thought that anyone would have all this joy, and no one to share it with. I'm glad Terry's not alone now.
Such a wonderful photo and story. Thanks.
RIP Donna.
"Divergent personal beliefs turned that professional fissure into a fault. "Donna became quite religious," says Moroder, as he strides past a wall of gold and platinum records. "She made me record a dance song about Jesus, dear God. And she really did not like gays — her attitude was sometimes difficult in the '80s." (Summer has denied ever making anti-gay statements.) "We were never 'estranged,' but for a long time we did not have the relationship we once did." I'm very sorry she passed away way too soon.
I got the chance to see her in concert three times and when she sang "Heaven's Just A Whisper Away", I felt like she was singing to me, there was no one else but us. It's the only time that's ever happened to me at a concert. I'm extremely grateful she graced the world with her BEAUTIFUL music.
P.S. People, please, it's "Donna Summer", not Donna Summers". I'm just saying is all.
Peace to all.
"Divergent personal beliefs turned that professional fissure into a fault. "Donna became quite religious," says Moroder, as he strides past a wall of gold and platinum records. "She made me record a dance song about Jesus, dear God. And she really did not like gays — her attitude was sometimes difficult in the '80s." (Summer has denied ever making anti-gay statements.) "We were never 'estranged,' but for a long time we did not have the relationship we once did." I'm very sorry she passed away way too soon.
I got the chance to see her in concert three times and when she sang "Heaven's Just A Whisper Away", I felt like she was singing to me, there was no one else but us. It's the only time that's ever happened to me at a concert. I'm extremely grateful she graced the world with her BEAUTIFUL music.
P.S. People, please, it's "Donna Summer", not Donna Summers". I'm just saying is all.
Peace to all.