Does anybody think that Teena would be more revered for her musical contribution to R&B/Soul if she was black?

Feelings?

ABeautifulOne said:

But she never got the recognition she deserved outside of the black community... when I bring her up to my white friends, they go, "Teena who?" Teena is 10x more talented than almost any female singer I can name White or Black. And Madonna had the nerve to diss her a few years back.

madonna dissed teena marie?


oh lordy....what did Sandy B say? "Dont fuck with the true sistas!!"


*walks away mumbling about fronting british accents and looking more like a witch with each passing year something something

some cool stuff

EmeraldCity said:

I love Teena as well -- but there were white people at my high school who knew her by name, so her appeal transcended the black community.

I'm really responding to say I like the name you chose -- Emerald City is one of my favorite albums by Teena, and one of three CDs I have of hers.

todd305 said:

Thanks!
Emerald City is the album of hers that is more of a soundtrack to my life. It has so much meaning to me. My bass matches the paisley print of her Telecaster pictured on the cover which was a limited vintage reissue. I was lucky enough to find one in time to get it. No one's music tugs at my soul like Teena can.

Back when T had a "crossover" hit with Lovergirl.... Madonna said that she didn't deserve to be in the top ten, that Teena was just one of Rick James girls.... in other words one of his talentless bimbos. It made me hate Madonna even more than I already did at that point.... She doesn't have a speck of T's skills.

No Teena collection is complete without Irons in the fire or It must be magic

sdekm1 said:

Madogna. This 'cradle robbing' hag got me starting a 'revolution'

What nerve. If I was a lip-syncher I wouldn't even have the balls to comment on someone else's sanging.
And Irons in the Fire has some straight fonkay ones! Tune In Tomorrow displays her flawless pipes like no one's business. The drums in You Make Love Like Springtime hit the spot, and Chhhaaaaainnnnnss! You got me locked in chains!

First, first class love
I'm gonna make you feel it!

This week will be all-Teena, all the time in this house. Too bad I have everything but Wild & Peaceful

Thank you for the info sdekm1

I think that Teena Marie really won African-Americans over when she started singing about collard greens and hot water cornbread. Go Tina! Itz ya berfday!

sdekm1 said:

Harlepolis said:

I've always admired and looked up to Teena for going after the black audience first and could care less if she crossed over. People love to praise Vanilla Ice and Eminem but Teena was the first and unlike the other two, she had talent. They have it easy because now it's "trendy" for a white artist to go after the black audience, Teena did it when it wasn't and she didn't give a damn either.
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Also, her parents didn't understand why she was singing the way she did. They wanted her to sing like Barbara Streisand. If you've been following her career like I have you would know that when she was younger she didn't talked too much on her personal life. I mean, she played coy about her relationship with Rick James for years, but we knew... But, last year, she opened up about her father in an interview with Sister to Sister Magazine. Here's part of it--

*No, the man she's talking about is not Rick James*

Jamie: How come you never married?

Teena: Because the one person that I really, really wanted to marry...my family pulled us apart when I was really young. There has never been any man that I ever ran across that I can compare to him. And I still love him to this day. He's one of my best friends.

Jamie: Did he eventually marry someone else?

Teena: Yes, we were 19 and 20 and my family at that particular time in my life was not at all with the Black and White Thing. We were very much in love. Right at the height of everything that was going on, my father died. And my father died on a very bad note with me. (Teena dedicated her first album to her father, Thomas Leslie Brockert).

Jamie: What happened when you introduced your Black boyfriend to your father?

Teena: When I introduced him to this man my father didn't shake his hand. My father died of a heart attack. Some of the people in my family said I killed my father and it really sent me into a really bad mental thing. And eventually our relationship couldn't hold up at that particular time. But I have compared every man I've met to him and found that they were all wanting. He was the love of my life!


-S-
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so sad

I've always admired and looked up to Teena for going after the black audience first and could care less if she crossed over. People love to praise Vanilla Ice and Eminem but Teena was the first and unlike the other two, she had talent. They have it easy because now it's "trendy" for a white artist to go after the black audience, Teena did it when it wasn't and she didn't give a damn either.
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DigitalGardin said: