And acting it

domainator2010 said:

As luck would have it, I was just randomly surfing Youtube and I came across THIS:

https://www.youtube.com/w...Y0SMqLLEUc

Man, she could Sing!, back in the day! ...Just feels good to hear it

I could never get into her. Too many runs. Probably why I've always been a bigger fan of Barbra and Whitney and not singers like Mariah and Xtina. I like singers with powerful voices who didn't go crazy with runs all over the place.

woogiebear said:

MickyDolenz said:

So was Tina Turner desperate too? This is from her final tour in 2009 when she was around 70

"...................Anna MAE!!!!"- The Ghost of Ike Turner

ICONIC! If someone chooses 2 wear what they wear, it's THEIR personal choice. If u.r. not the one wearin' it, the u should have nuthin' 2 say about it. Simple. Tina looks aMAZING! <3

TrivialPursuit said:

purplepolitician said:

This thread made me revisit The Roof n Breakdown vids, lawd 🤤. Who kerrs what she got on, at least she still doing her thing 😀. Side note: My Dad says she can still get it, goes cuckoo (well for him) any time she's mentioned, her n Britney Spears 😄.

Those two songs are some of her very best, well Breakdown to me is her best song.

Dalia11 said:

Tina looks amazing. She is a Sagittarius. The fire signs: Aries, Leo and Sagittarians take care of themselves, age slowly, are sexy and passionate. Mariah -Aries, Madonna -Leo, Diana Ross -Aries, J Lo -Leo, to name a few fire sign female singers.

OMG, enough with the signs already, this isn't the 70's! Besides, who cares!

Dalia11 said:

Tina looks amazing. She is a Sagittarius. The fire signs: Aries, Leo and Sagittarians take care of themselves, age slowly, are sexy and passionate. Mariah -Aries, Madonna -Leo, Diana Ross -Aries, J Lo -Leo, to name a few fire sign female singers.

I love learning this

slyjackson said:

Dalia11 said:

😃 OK, for this thread I will stop talking about the signs!

Keep talking about the signs. It makes this thread, that should have died a long time ago, a little more interesting. It is true about the fire signs, especially when it comes to Aries women and probably men.

alphastreet said:

slyjackson said:

Those two songs are some of her very best, well Breakdown to me is her best song.

Butterfly is definitely one of her best albums

Her best album.

kitbradley said:

Dalia11 said:

😃 OK, for this thread I will stop talking about the signs!

Keep talking about the signs. It makes this thread, that should have died a long time ago, a little more interesting. It is true about the fire signs, especially when it comes to Aries women and probably men.

Perhaps "keep talking about the signs" will kill this thread "that should have died a long time ago".

rogifan said:

domainator2010 said:

As luck would have it, I was just randomly surfing Youtube and I came across THIS:

https://www.youtube.com/w...Y0SMqLLEUc

Man, she could Sing!, back in the day! ...Just feels good to hear it

I could never get into her. Too many runs. Probably why I've always been a bigger fan of Barbra and Whitney and not singers like Mariah and Xtina. I like singers with powerful voices who didn't go crazy with runs all over the place.

Hey, talking of which, I came across THIS the other day (it was pretty surprising, and quite awesome!):

https://www.masterclass.c...es-singing

I have half a mind to sign up!

luv4u said:

alphastreet said:

It suits the Vegas attitude and she looks darn good for almost 50

Damn straight!

She has had kids and issues with her weight etc. Not everyone is able to retain their 20 or 30 something frames.

Men need to realized that if they want something better in their fantasy world then go look at some porn


Society puts a LOT of expectation on women and their bodies. If folks are happy with the way they are then let them be.

umm....JLo has kids and is even older than Mariah..she pulls off the look that Mariah is trying to "steal"! #epicfail

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macaylasdad said:

Sorry...this look to me screams "desperate"! Her music isn't selling anymore, her concerts don't drawn large crowds, her fan base is now in their 40s and 50s and isn't really following her career. So why not throw on a skimpy outfit (actually, that's JLo's outfit) and show off my sagging breast implants and lip sync to a backing vocal track?

Mariah need to reinvent herself, change up EVERYTHING, get back to what she is known for...her voice. Forget the caberet stage shows, 1000 back up dancers, rappers. Start with her and a pianist or a guitarist and go back to the basics. Strip down her catalogue and add some new songs into that format and see where it goes.

I think she was/is a very talented songwriter and her ego became larger than her career and her blunders on live tv have done her no favors.

Clearly she is hanging on to the past and trying to recreate magic of music to an audience than doen't have the time of day for her. Her weight and how she dresses is her business, we all have an opinion.

rogifan said:

domainator2010 said:

As luck would have it, I was just randomly surfing Youtube and I came across THIS:

https://www.youtube.com/w...Y0SMqLLEUc

Man, she could Sing!, back in the day! ...Just feels good to hear it

I could never get into her. Too many runs. Probably why I've always been a bigger fan of Barbra and Whitney and not singers like Mariah and Xtina. I like singers with powerful voices who didn't go crazy with runs all over the place.

I feel like all those other singers can't do her subdued breathy restrained falsetto thing she does in a lot of her R&B records, though. I like that more than straight bombast... but she runs the gamut.

macaylasdad said:

Sorry...this look to me screams "desperate"! Her music isn't selling anymore, her concerts don't drawn large crowds, her fan base is now in their 40s and 50s and isn't really following her career. So why not throw on a skimpy outfit (actually, that's JLo's outfit) and show off my sagging breast implants and lip sync to a backing vocal track?

Mariah need to reinvent herself, change up EVERYTHING, get back to what she is known for...her voice. Forget the caberet stage shows, 1000 back up dancers, rappers. Start with her and a pianist or a guitarist and go back to the basics. Strip down her catalogue and add some new songs into that format and see where it goes.

I think she was/is a very talented songwriter and her ego became larger than her career and her blunders on live tv have done her no favors.

Clearly she is hanging on to the past and trying to recreate magic of music to an audience than doen't have the time of day for her. Her weight and how she dresses is her business, we all have an opinion.

Agree with most of this.

I saw one of her videos of BET Soul a few days ago I Can't Let Go and it brought back

memories. She was a true songbird back then and incredibly beautiful. I don't care how she

dresses but this photo is not very flattering. What I want to know is how the fuck this thread

turned from offering critique on her dress game to a borderline man bashing thread.

Don't get how this is perceived as a sexist thread. This thread just seems to be a replay of

the Lizzo thread.

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macaylasdad said:

her fan base is now in their 40s and 50s

Still in my 30s here. She has a lot of active fans that skew a little younger than 40s because of her Emancipation Of Mimi album.

Cinny said:

macaylasdad said:

her fan base is now in their 40s and 50s

Still in my 30s here. She has a lot of active fans that skew a little younger than 40s because of her Emancipation Of Mimi album.

the album was like 15 years ago?

macaylasdad said:

macaylasdad said:

Cinny said:

Still in my 30s here. She has a lot of active fans that skew a little younger than 40s because of her Emancipation Of Mimi album.

the album was like 15 years ago?

Right, so people who were in their mid-teens when that dropped (and it was huge, it was everywhere) would be in their early 30s...

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Cinny said:

macaylasdad said:

her fan base is now in their 40s and 50s

Still in my 30s here. She has a lot of active fans that skew a little younger than 40s because of her Emancipation Of Mimi album.

Me too, I'm in my early 30s as well. I fell in love with Emancipation but it was just at the end of 2018 when I started to dig into her music.

WhisperingDandelions said:

macaylasdad said:

the album was like 15 years ago?

Right, so people who were in their mid-teens when that dropped (and it was huge, it was everywhere) would be in their early 30s...

[Edited 4/17/20 14:57pm]

ummm... sure.... Go back 30 years when her 1st (best album) dropped and you were shitting your diapers...that group is in the late 40s to early to mid 50s... the 90s she was untouchable...

IfItAintToy said:

macaylasdad said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Right, so people who were in their mid-teens when that dropped (and it was huge, it was everywhere) would be in their early 30s...

[Edited 4/17/20 14:57pm]

ummm... sure.... Go back 30 years when her 1st (best album) dropped and you were shitting your diapers...that group is in the late 40s to early to mid 50s... the 90s she was untouchable...

uuhmmmm okay? You seemed perplexed as to the veracity or possibility of her fanbase hitting early 30s so I provided the mathematical justification. I don't seem how this retort of yours reacts or relates to anything... Truthfully her fanbase skews to all ages, initial reasons or first albums why are pretty irrelevant, fans dig into the entire catalogue, we're just talking entry-points.... the 90s were great, yes, I experienced them as well...