Just giving Grace Jones some love and appreciation. Hey is it me or was Annie Lennox channeling Grace Jones all those years, she had her look and sounded just like her check it out. Grace turned Lady Gaga down on a collaboration I wish she did`nt it would have been historic, Lady Gaga is obviously inspired and influenced by her. Grace has a small Prince connection(correction Grace Jones has a connection with everybody!), Wendy and Lisa worked on or helped write her song Williams Blood on her new CD. We love you Grace. SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM

Put some Grace in your face. Ha Ha Ha

purplefingers said:

Just giving Grace Jones some love and appreciation. Hey is it me or was Annie Lennox channeling Grace Jones all those years, she had her look and sounded just like her check it out. Grace turned Lady Gaga down on a collaboration I wish she did`nt it would have been historic, Lady Gaga is obviously inspired and influenced by her. Grace has a small Prince connection(correction Grace Jones has a connection with everybody!), Wendy and Lisa worked on or helped write her song Williams Blood on her new CD. We love you Grace. SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM

always

She is a true icon, why the heck don't people respond to more of these threads. This woman was an image maker, and I love watching her classic videos on You Tube. Anyway heres some Grace Jones for beginners.

One of the most interesting, is her singing "Do or Die" on an old Italian show called Stryx which had her and Amanda Lear amongst other outre disco singers. She was called Rumstryx and sang the song to a bizarre set of camp semi vampiric props. of course wearing a lot of bizarre lingere and a strippers mac. Apparently the show was cancelled after 6 episodes as it was seen as being too dark and Satanic for Catholic Italy, in reality it was just a very camp show that had a lot of low level sexuality and camp disco songs.

Another great early video is "Love is the Drug" from 1980's Warm Leatherette (Probably her greatest album along with 1981's Nightclubbing) features Warholian like imagery along with the obsession over her mannish looks and rather full lips.

Then theres Vamp from 1986 where she played a vampire called Katrina who wears whiteface and does spme very bizarre dancing.

Other essential videos "I 've seen that face before", "Living my life". "La Vie En rose" and "Slave to the rhythm to name a few.

In my eyes this woman is legend

Grace Jones is a force of nature. I saw her live last year, and she was killing it at age 60! She's severely overlooked, unfortunately.

Loving Grace Jones, Nightclubbing is a firm fave album.

I'm sooooooo glad that i've had the chance to experience Grace Jones Live

Caramelpfe said:

In my eyes this woman is legend

Most agreed

I think part of the reason her following was not larger in States was because of the general chart reaction to her music. A lot of acts that are either aimed at the gay and dance/club community or acts that feature openly homosexual people have always done poorly in the more Conservative United States compared to Europe. There are exceptions to this rule, especially amongst singers Like Lady Gaga and Madonna, who appeal openly to gay men but also to hordes of teenage and heterosexual females and even a few straight men. Whereas Grace Jones has definite gay and dance club appeal shes hardly mainstream. Reasons include Ultra Protestantism and machochistic lyrocs prevalent in Hip Hop/Rock and Country and Western Music.

Examples of this homophobia include

1. Elton John, Between 1971 and 1976, all his songs hit the Top 5 and many were Number Ones regardless of the quality of the songs. After 1976 when he revealed he was a bisexual his popularity plummeted (His songs were lucky to go Top 20), there were a few hits like Little Jeannie and I guess thats why they call it the blues (Both Top 5) but even today his success has not recovered.

2. Scissor Sisters, this pop rock group made up of 3 gay men, a transexual and a straight man have had top 5 smashes with both of their first two albums in the UK and Europe, yet they barely charted in USA only reaching the Hot 100 with "take your mother out" - Number 2 in the UK

3. Wham/George Michael, were quite successful in the states (Although bigger in Britain) after 1998 Michaels songs have stiffedin the states, whereas they have at least charted in the UK.

4. Abba/Boney M/ Kylie Minogue All huge in Australia and the UK and Europe, yet they barely chart in the states. Minogue has had 2 hits, Abba 1 and Boney M got to #30 with Rivers of Babylon #1 hit for 10 weeks in the UK. All have significant gay followings

5. Grace Jones, had several Top 20 hits in UK, even Top 5s in ultra liberal Italy and Germany, yet Pull up to the bumper got to #62 in USA, I'm not perfect at #90 and the biggest hit "Slave to the Rhythm" got to #45. Big deal Hurricane and its singles failed to chart. Yet its a great album.

Pretty obvious a lot of US record buyers don't like gay themed or ultra dancy musical acts.

She's amazing!

She may have been someone whose looks attracted me based on how she dressed, but I could never get into her voice.

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Classic.