sosgemini said:

kitbradley said:

Other than "I Love Your Smile", A&M never put any effort into marketing Shanice outside of R&B radio. I believe both she and Vesta had around the same number of Top 10 R&B hits during their respective careers. Shanice scored slightly better on the Pop charts than Vesta but nothing impressive.

Shanice got top notch videos for No 1/2 Steppin and Can U Dance and promotion of the two on pop radio. Well, at least in my area she did. They were trying to turn her into the next Janet.

No 1/2 Steppin was the jam. They were kinda marketing her like Janet. It's no coincidence

they bothe were labelmates.

daPrettyman said:

kitbradley said:

Other than "I Love Your Smile", A&M never put any effort into marketing Shanice outside of R&B radio. I believe both she and Vesta had around the same number of Top 10 R&B hits during their respective careers. Shanice scored slightly better on the Pop charts than Vesta but nothing impressive.

Shanice was not on A&M at that time. She got dropped after her first album. She signed with Motown and released "I Love Your Smile."

I was just thinking about that myself. I wasn't quite sure because i never bought her second album.

I have her debut on cassette and also have 21 ways and her LaFace cd.

phunkdaddy said:

daPrettyman said:

Shanice was not on A&M at that time. She got dropped after her first album. She signed with Motown and released "I Love Your Smile."

I was just thinking about that myself. I wasn't quite sure because i never bought her second album.

I have her debut on cassette and also have 21 ways and her LaFace cd.

I recently dusted off her 2nd album and the ballads were decent, however, the uptempo trax didn't age well at all. Especially the ones where she was trying to rap.

allsmutaside said:

"I agree she was a diva. I met her once at Disneyland back when she had her hit 'Congratulations" out and she made me wait forever just to take a picture with her. So she can finish gobbling down a dozen hotdogs."

I am confused by this statement about Vesta needing to stop having lunch to provide someone with a photo op. ??? Stopping or altering your every moment and activity based on what someone else's needs, or their perceptions about how you should behave, is insanity personified. Seems doubtful that the 45th person who interupted her that day or week would care about the first 44 interuptions she edured, but they really should have. And why does she have to be "gobbling down a dozen hotdogs?" Would she have simply been eating lunch if she had not make someone wait forever "just" to take a picture with her?

That was a fun episode. She was cute and fine and many of us were probably thinking it would have been quite something to know her. Vesta 6 woulda been wild for a minute.

First of all yes she is suppose to alter whatever she is doing.That is part of an entertainers life. She was at Disneyland for christ sake with a hit record on the radio with a Vesta 4 u t-shirt on in big red letters. Trust me she wanted the attention. Plus if it wasn't for me and my girlfriend at the time asking her for a pic. NOONE would have known who she was..

I like her spirit but Vesta(R.I.P) was very rude about it. Yes! she did gobble a dozen hotdogs one by one. I guess she was really hungry.Then she waved her arm up like she was Diana Ross for us to come back over to take the picture(Which I still have). But its an experience I'll never forget. She was honest and being her diva self. I may have done the same thing if I was her....

daPrettyman said:

phunkdaddy said:

I was just thinking about that myself. I wasn't quite sure because i never bought her second album.

I have her debut on cassette and also have 21 ways and her LaFace cd.

I recently dusted off her 2nd album and the ballads were decent, however, the uptempo trax didn't age well at all. Especially the ones where she was trying to rap.

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[Edited 1/5/12 6:31am]

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

allsmutaside said:

"I agree she was a diva. I met her once at Disneyland back when she had her hit 'Congratulations" out and she made me wait forever just to take a picture with her. So she can finish gobbling down a dozen hotdogs."

I am confused by this statement about Vesta needing to stop having lunch to provide someone with a photo op. ??? Stopping or altering your every moment and activity based on what someone else's needs, or their perceptions about how you should behave, is insanity personified. Seems doubtful that the 45th person who interupted her that day or week would care about the first 44 interuptions she edured, but they really should have. And why does she have to be "gobbling down a dozen hotdogs?" Would she have simply been eating lunch if she had not make someone wait forever "just" to take a picture with her?

That was a fun episode. She was cute and fine and many of us were probably thinking it would have been quite something to know her. Vesta 6 woulda been wild for a minute.

First of all yes she is suppose to alter whatever she is doing.That is part of an entertainers life. She was at Disneyland for christ sake with a hit record on the radio with a Vesta 4 u t-shirt on in big red letters. Trust me she wanted the attention. Plus if it wasn't for me and my girlfriend at the time asking her for a pic. NOONE would have known who she was..

I like her spirit but Vesta(R.I.P) was very rude about it. Yes! she did gobble a dozen hotdogs one by one. I guess she was really hungry.Then she waved her arm up like she was Diana Ross for us to come back over to take the picture(Which I still have). But its an experience I'll never forget. She was honest and being her diva self. I may have done the same thing if I was her....

You were "at Disneyland for christ sake," and you are "suppose" to wait on line there.

allsmutaside said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

First of all yes she is suppose to alter whatever she is doing.That is part of an entertainers life. She was at Disneyland for christ sake with a hit record on the radio with a Vesta 4 u t-shirt on in big red letters. Trust me she wanted the attention. Plus if it wasn't for me and my girlfriend at the time asking her for a pic. NOONE would have known who she was..

I like her spirit but Vesta(R.I.P) was very rude about it. Yes! she did gobble a dozen hotdogs one by one. I guess she was really hungry.Then she waved her arm up like she was Diana Ross for us to come back over to take the picture(Which I still have). But its an experience I'll never forget. She was honest and being her diva self. I may have done the same thing if I was her....

You were "at Disneyland for christ sake," and you are "suppose" to wait on line there.

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

allsmutaside said:

"I agree she was a diva. I met her once at Disneyland back when she had her hit 'Congratulations" out and she made me wait forever just to take a picture with her. So she can finish gobbling down a dozen hotdogs."

I am confused by this statement about Vesta needing to stop having lunch to provide someone with a photo op. ??? Stopping or altering your every moment and activity based on what someone else's needs, or their perceptions about how you should behave, is insanity personified. Seems doubtful that the 45th person who interupted her that day or week would care about the first 44 interuptions she edured, but they really should have. And why does she have to be "gobbling down a dozen hotdogs?" Would she have simply been eating lunch if she had not make someone wait forever "just" to take a picture with her?

That was a fun episode. She was cute and fine and many of us were probably thinking it would have been quite something to know her. Vesta 6 woulda been wild for a minute.

First of all yes she is suppose to alter whatever she is doing.That is part of an entertainers life. She was at Disneyland for christ sake with a hit record on the radio with a Vesta 4 u t-shirt on in big red letters. Trust me she wanted the attention. Plus if it wasn't for me and my girlfriend at the time asking her for a pic. NOONE would have known who she was..

I like her spirit but Vesta(R.I.P) was very rude about it. Yes! she did gobble a dozen hotdogs one by one. I guess she was really hungry.Then she waved her arm up like she was Diana Ross for us to come back over to take the picture(Which I still have). But its an experience I'll never forget. She was honest and being her diva self. I may have done the same thing if I was her....

You were lucky. A lot of other singers would have finished their lunch/dinner and would not have called you back over.

And you ain't seen rude. A friend of mine told me she was told off by Anita Baker once for asking Anita for an autograph while she was shopping at the mall. And she didn't get it neither. Now, that's rude! Celebs generally dont like to be bothered while they are eating. I was with a friend once and we saw Lou Rawls a few tables away from us. I sent my friend over to get his autograph. He gave it to her but she said he had a serious attitude when she asked him for it.

[Edited 1/5/12 17:41pm]

kitbradley said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

First of all yes she is suppose to alter whatever she is doing.That is part of an entertainers life. She was at Disneyland for christ sake with a hit record on the radio with a Vesta 4 u t-shirt on in big red letters. Trust me she wanted the attention. Plus if it wasn't for me and my girlfriend at the time asking her for a pic. NOONE would have known who she was..

I like her spirit but Vesta(R.I.P) was very rude about it. Yes! she did gobble a dozen hotdogs one by one. I guess she was really hungry.Then she waved her arm up like she was Diana Ross for us to come back over to take the picture(Which I still have). But its an experience I'll never forget. She was honest and being her diva self. I may have done the same thing if I was her....

You were lucky. A lot of other singers would have finished their lunch/dinner and would not have called you back over.

And you ain't seen rude. A friend of mine told me she was told off by Anita Baker once for asking Anita for an autograph while she was shopping at the mall. And she didn't get it neither. Now, that's rude! Celebs generally dont like to be bothered while they are eating. I was with a friend once and we saw Lou Rawls a few tables away from us. I sent my friend over to get his autograph. He gave it to her but she said he had a serious attitude when she asked him for it.

[Edited 1/5/12 17:41pm]

I have seen rude b4. I said i would never bring this up again. But a certain ex lead singer(Now very successful artist) of a very popular three member group was extremely rude to me.

Vesta in any other situation i would have understood if she was incognito. But she wanted to be seen. Her & her entourage all had Vesta 4 u t-shirts on....She still wasn't recognised. She acted like she was a mega hit Janet Jackson. But anywho. R.I.P VESTA i still love U..

Great episode. Sad but lightened by Vesta's sense of humor and never-give-up spirit. May she sing forever in the unearthly choir.

purplethunder3121 said:

Great episode. Sad but lightened by Vesta's sense of humor and never-give-up spirit. May she sing forever in the unearthly choir.

Yeah, it seemed well done and it was such a strange contrast between the sadness and the humor. I ended up with a big crush on her after the show.

Timmy84 said:

Just wanted to keep y'all alert on the time, just over 30 minutes from now...

RIP Vesta.

See http://prince.org/msg/8/373397

this dupe