Timmy84 said:

I was joking No, I've never heard a song by Stacy.

this is the most boring episode of unsung yet. what i got from it is she never seemed that interested in being an artist and then when she got older and the industry was changing she quit because she was affraid of failure.

midiscover said:

Oh OK.

lowkey said:

She said that she was pursuing her parents' dreams so yeah.

lowkey said:

Fixed it for ya.
Oops sorry had to fix it again. Don't want people
making the wrong assumptions.
[Edited 4/13/10 10:34am]

phunkdaddy said:

Ouch!

Timmy84 said:

I realized my mistake. I only meant the first sentence.

phunkdaddy said:

Yeah I know I'm just laughing that you put HIS name.

I would have loved to have seen the Sylvester episode. I bet he was wild as hell getting dick left and right.

vainandy said:

That episode only hinted that he did. They said he didn't think of settling down until he got with somebody not too long before he died, I think his partner died before he did.

Timmy84 said:

Don't let Smokey -'Motown is a family - read this'[/i].

I remember "Come on and Jump To the Beat" and "One Way Street", she was only 14 when she first came on the scene. She also opened for the Jacksons during the Triumph tour.

Shanice can sing circles around Stacy but that's another thread.

I don't get TV One here in Maine...can someone fill me in? What was Stacy's exact reason for leaving the business? How does she make a living for the past 20 years?

Did she address her hair? What exactly WAS that on her head during the 80s??

Well hell, it sounds like they didn't do a very good job with his episode. Years ago, I read a biography about him on one of these disco websites that said he was getting dick all up in the offices of the Fantasy Records studios. That site said he had turned those offices into damn near a gay party every day.

MidniteMagnet said:

Stacy said she was tired of record label politics and the perils of what she thought show business offered (sex, drugs, etc.). She was someone who didn't wanna do what was trendy (i.e. what Madonna, Janet and Jody were doing at the time). Plus she felt forced into it.

She's been making a living as a behind the scenes person, I think she and her husband owns a studio. And she's only singing gospel nowadays.

TD3 said:

vainandy said:

Yeah they didn't really do a good job with that episode. His life was much more colorful.

vainandy said:

I was never a fan of Sylvester but i do remember his very last
album getting a little airplay in my area. I just wasn't into pure
disco. I liked the disco with a funk edge like KC and the Sunshine
Band. I do remember one of Sylvester's last articles for Jet magazine
where he talked about his lifestyle saying he never volunteered any information
but never denied who he was. I remember him stating when he was young, his
pastor did a number on him and instead of resisting he rather liked it.
I can't knock Sylvester for growing up and realizing that he was gay but i
think it's tragic for a pastor to take advantage of any young boy or girl
regardless of their sexual orientation. It certainly can ruin a young kid.
Sadly it has happened quite often.

phunkdaddy said:

I read that in the liner notes when I bought his "Slyvester/Too Hot To Sleep" 2 on 1 CD. He didn't think much of that preacher for preaching one thing and doing another. He got to where he couldn't stand hypocrits.

As for Sylvester himself not resisting and kinda liking it, I was a teenager when Michael Henderson made that "Slingshot" album cover and if he would have thrown that hairy dick my way, I wouldn't have kinda liked it, I would have loved it! I wished that a grown man would have given me the time of day because boys didn't turn me on at all. But no, grown men shouldn't go after anyone underage.

Sylvester knew he was gay BEFORE that incident. Dude was dressing up and singing that flamboyantly as a kid but that was "acceptable" because that was cute for little boys to do that, when he got older, however, people thought it was a "problem". Sylvester remained the way he was up until he died. He's great.

On his live album, he remade "Lover Man (Where Can You Be)" and kept the lyrics the same without changing the gender. He also dedicated the very next song "Sharing Something Perfect Between Ourselves" to his lover in the audience. Later in his career, he had a song called "Menergy". He flaunted his sexuality and didn't give a damn who liked it or not. It wasn't until his last album when he started using "girl" in the lyrics in "Someone Like You" that he kinda sold out lyricwise about who he was singing about but I think that's because he was on a major label (Warner Bros.) on that last album.

vainandy said:

And he left the label shortly afterwards... he felt forced.

lowkey said:

Um, no. I think you may need to watch it again. In case you chose not to...she left the industry because they wanted her to be more like Whitney and Janet. She was her own person. Plus, Motown cheated her out of some money. Both reasons seem valid enough for me.

I guess some expected her to be on drugs or in the gutter penniless

How disappointed they are


A success story..wow

funkpill said:

Yeah

That's the ULTIMATE reason to leave. I sure as hell can't blame her for that.

vainandy said:

vainandy said:

at the Slingshot album cover
I'll have to give the Sylvester episode another try. I already knew
about his last album and tragic ending.

Timmy84 said:

To be brought up with good values..

That's not right