He's an old money hungry troll but I don't completely blame him because she was a grown woman and had a mind of her own (supposedly). She could have easily put her foot down if he was making her do something she didn't want to do because she had several music connections in her own family such as Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick that could have helped her get a deal somewhere else if he dropped her. Not to mention, that she had already previously recorded with Jermaine Jackson and Teddy Pendergrass. Little miss goodie goodie wanted to do weak shit because she wanted not only the black sales, but the white sales, the kid sales, and the senior citizen sales. She was the all American "girl next door" that rings your doorbell and asks to borrow a cup of sugar. Oh, she makes me sick.

She should have got with Prince or Rick and let them give her some hard funk and dress her up like a hooker. Well, the hooker part wouldn't look too good on her though with those chicken legs she has.

Abdul said:

You DO?

*drooling*

I need it,,,,,bad

It stuck out at me like Rick James being a video store to rent a DVD and, out of all the other DVDs in the store, "Purple Rain" is the first thing he sees. .
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As soon as I logged on, as I looked at the page, that title was the first thing I saw in the middle of all the other threads. It stuck out at me like Rick James being a video store to rent a DVD and, out of all the other DVDs in the store, "Purple Rain" is the first thing he sees.
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SoulAlive said:

Harlepolis said:

Oh and I got mixed up with the giggle. Whit mutters sexyily like she's kinda drunk "I don't know why I do it, I just do."

BTW, the 12 of "SE" was released with that god-awful pic with Kevin Costner. It was the centerpiece of her performance in that movie-that-will-go-unmentioned.

PFunkjazz said:


I think you're confused again. "So Emotional" was a single off her second album, Whitney. The Bodyguard was 5 years later.

To be honest, her influence did so much damage to music in the late 1980s that, even if she made a straight up hard funk track, I don't think I could listen to it with an open mind. It would be different if she were someone I had never heard of but I have heard of her and she's one I absolutely can't stand.

I don't think its FUNKY,,,just mid-tempo funky,,,,and I love me some Kashif

Harlepolis said:

I guess everyone's mileage is different.
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LittleAmy said:

I wouldn't even call "Thinking about You" a midtempo song (and it definitely has no semblance of funk in it), but more in the vein of the conservative R&B made by mid-1980s acts of the Hush Productions stable (Freddie Jackson, Melba Moore, Lillo Thomas and Meli'sa Morgan)

Those are exactly the type of artists I think of when I think of Shitney. Don't forget Anita Baker and Mikki Howard also. Oh my God, I'm getting depressed as hell.