Imagine if someone hadn’t given a chance to the brilliant women who came before me: Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, and the list goes on. They opened the doors for me, and I pray that I’m doing all I can to open doors for the next generation of talents. | | | | Jay & Bey on the run at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, Aug. 2, 2018.
(Kevin Mazur/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Imagine if someone hadn’t given a chance to the brilliant women who came before me: Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, and the list goes on. They opened the doors for me, and I pray that I’m doing all I can to open doors for the next generation of talents.”
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| | rantnrave:// One of the many things I love about BOB DYLAN is how he's largely avoided the celebrity whirl his fame and talent entitle him to and instead chosen to live out his life as a working musician, a wandering troubadour, an endless interpreter of a century's worth of music, most of it, but not all of it, his own. He was 47 when his NEVER ENDING TOUR began 30 years ago, and it has in fact never ended. He's in Australia and New Zealand throughout August, and he just announced 28 shows in 39 days in the US in the fall, in places like Midland, Texas; Lafayette, La.; Chattanooga, Tenn., and St. Augustine, Fla. He's 77 years old, his reputation and everything else about him has been assured since before you were born, and there's nothing he'd rather do on a random weekend in October than play a casino in Tulsa one night and then bus three or four hours to another casino in Thackerville the next night. He does this, I'd like to think, for the simple reason that he's a musician and that's what musicians do. Or maybe he knows the road is where the stories are. A songwriter is always in need of a good story... A followup/clarification on my Monday rantnrave about DOROTHY CARVELLO and her book ANYTHING FOR A HIT: AN A&R WOMAN'S STORY OF SURVIVING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. Carvello's description of her four years at ATLANTIC RECORDS in the late '80s and early '90s is a story of sexual assault, harassment, abuse and more. It's a story that wilI ring horribly true for other women in the music business, and many other businesses. I pointed out a "twist," as I called it, that she loved the job despite what she was forced to endure. That may well not have come out as I intended. Her feelings for her job do not in any way absolve her harassers or make her any less of a victim. Her feelings for her job are part of her story, not their story. Her feelings for her job do not make what happened OK. Period. Not now, not then... In her much-discussed, debated, internet-breaking VOGUE cover story, BEYONCÉ has a message that applies as much to Atlantic's leadership in the 1980s as it does to people in power across the culture landscape in 2018: "If people in powerful positions continue to hire and cast only people who look like them, sound like them, come from the same neighborhoods they grew up in, they will never have a greater understanding of experiences different from their own"... One guitarist's loud, beautiful quest to not let the WARPED TOUR end... RECORDING ACADEMY playing MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT hardball... APHEX TWIN video premiere pulled from ADULT SWIM after failing epilepsy test... Theatrical release of NOTORIOUS B.I.G. film CITY OF LIES postponed amid off-screen troubles for star JOHNNY DEPP... RIP NAVID IZADI and DAVID STEIN. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| "Imagine if someone hadn’t given a chance to the brilliant women who came before me: Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, and the list goes on. They opened the doors for me, and I pray that I’m doing all I can to open doors for the next generation of talents." | | |
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