Liking this at least for the Tarantino slam (I know way too little about dancing and choreography to have an opinion on the actual matter).
Popjustice Battle of the Legendary Divas - THE CHER SHOW!!!
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Liking this at least for the Tarantino slam (I know way too little about dancing and choreography to have an opinion on the actual matter).
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You must hàààte Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Robert Wilson if you don't like signature dances, ddddd
Now I regret not giving Big Spender the 10 it deserves!
I know absolutely nothing about Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker or Robert Wilson but I'm absolutely certain none of them could pull of a dance routine like Eleanor Powell.....
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I am living for all these dance scenes you're posting! Makes me wanna stay in all day and watch old movies.
No, it's really annoying, contrived and pretentious
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fixed!
Plane from New York got delayed by a day. Been up since 3am. When I got back had to go and collect keys from @mump boy the other side of London finally made it home at 10.30pm. Managed my whole 2 week trip with no hiccups at all. Managed to meet 2 Legendary Divas in NYC and packed in 30 films at TIFF. Somewhere between London Bridge and Dalston I lost my laptop!!!
Next elimination was all ready to go. I’m going to bed now.
Will post tomorrow and I’m not very happy (About the elimination not the laptop).
Next elimination was all ready to go. I’m going to bed now.
Will post tomorrow and I’m not very happy (About the elimination not the laptop).
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A lovely man emailed me to say he’d found my bag. Just been to pick it up in deepest Croydon.
A diva disaster heading your way very soon.
A diva disaster heading your way very soon.
#46
Stand By Your Man (1968)
High Score: 10 @mump boy @Filippa
Low Score: 4 @Reboot
Average Score: 7.600
Chart Positions: UK #1 US #19
Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man is officially The Greatest Country Song Of All Time, probably the most well known and certainly one of the most famous entrants in this competitions. So why has it flopped so horribly? Maybe you just all hate great country music maybe you've misunderstood the song because it's SO much more than is often assumed.
This isn't an instruction for women to stay with abusive husbands or forgive their adulterous ways it's a declaration of commitment. For better or for worse.
'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, giving all you love to just one man' Tammy laments from the very outset, suggesting that it's her that's considering cheating.
It's not the woman in this situation that's the weak one. The man is in trouble, the man needs help and support. Maybe he's depressed, maybe he has money troubles or ill health. Maybe he's a well meaning fuck up. Don't give up on him at the first sign of trouble cries Tammy - 'Give him to arms to cling to and something warm to come to, when night are cold and lonely'.
He needs her.
Even the songs most famous line - After all he's just a man - doesn't have to be read a gendered. She could just be saying he's human. We all make mistakes.
Tammy Wynette was marries 5 times.
Apart from anything else Tammy sings the shit out of this. Starting with her famous husky, tones that immediately connote heartbreak by the end she's belting her heart out with a few notes in there even she was nervous to hit- `God, if this is a hit, you know what?' She said, `I'm going to have to hit that God-awful high note the rest of my life.'
During the women's movement of the 70's it came in for a lot of criticism the sentiment being seen as unhelpful to the cause but Tammy always defended and then of course there was this debacle.
Another song co-written with Billy Sherrill it was reportedly written in 15 minutes and released at the end of 1968 becoming an immediate Country smash (Her 5th #1) and even crossing over into the Hot 100 at #19. Released 5 tims in the UK it finally became s huge hit in 1975 during the mid 70's Country craze that swept the nations. The song turned Tammy from an up and coming country favourite into a superstar a position she held for the next 30 years.
This record won her the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and she was awarded the CMA as Best Female Vocalist of the Year.
It's been covered by numerous artists including potential future Legendary Diva Candi Staton.
I expected this to do a lot better here simply because of it's iconic status. Easily the biggest song to leave so far. Not only that but The First Lady of Country is now officially out but she's got her pride and knows how to hide all the heartache and pain, she'll do her......
Tammy elimination write up coming tomorrow along with another absolute classic that you've kicked out WAY too early......
LEGENDARY DIVA COVER
I'm sure I have a proper Dolly cover of this somewhere but can't find it online so here she is some with some other legends...
And don't forget Tina's mid 70's Country period...
Stand By Your Man (1968)
High Score: 10 @mump boy @Filippa
Low Score: 4 @Reboot
Average Score: 7.600
Chart Positions: UK #1 US #19
Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man is officially The Greatest Country Song Of All Time, probably the most well known and certainly one of the most famous entrants in this competitions. So why has it flopped so horribly? Maybe you just all hate great country music maybe you've misunderstood the song because it's SO much more than is often assumed.
This isn't an instruction for women to stay with abusive husbands or forgive their adulterous ways it's a declaration of commitment. For better or for worse.
'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, giving all you love to just one man' Tammy laments from the very outset, suggesting that it's her that's considering cheating.
It's not the woman in this situation that's the weak one. The man is in trouble, the man needs help and support. Maybe he's depressed, maybe he has money troubles or ill health. Maybe he's a well meaning fuck up. Don't give up on him at the first sign of trouble cries Tammy - 'Give him to arms to cling to and something warm to come to, when night are cold and lonely'.
He needs her.
Even the songs most famous line - After all he's just a man - doesn't have to be read a gendered. She could just be saying he's human. We all make mistakes.
Tammy Wynette was marries 5 times.
Apart from anything else Tammy sings the shit out of this. Starting with her famous husky, tones that immediately connote heartbreak by the end she's belting her heart out with a few notes in there even she was nervous to hit- `God, if this is a hit, you know what?' She said, `I'm going to have to hit that God-awful high note the rest of my life.'
During the women's movement of the 70's it came in for a lot of criticism the sentiment being seen as unhelpful to the cause but Tammy always defended and then of course there was this debacle.
Another song co-written with Billy Sherrill it was reportedly written in 15 minutes and released at the end of 1968 becoming an immediate Country smash (Her 5th #1) and even crossing over into the Hot 100 at #19. Released 5 tims in the UK it finally became s huge hit in 1975 during the mid 70's Country craze that swept the nations. The song turned Tammy from an up and coming country favourite into a superstar a position she held for the next 30 years.
This record won her the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and she was awarded the CMA as Best Female Vocalist of the Year.
It's been covered by numerous artists including potential future Legendary Diva Candi Staton.
I expected this to do a lot better here simply because of it's iconic status. Easily the biggest song to leave so far. Not only that but The First Lady of Country is now officially out but she's got her pride and knows how to hide all the heartache and pain, she'll do her......
Tammy elimination write up coming tomorrow along with another absolute classic that you've kicked out WAY too early......
LEGENDARY DIVA COVER
I'm sure I have a proper Dolly cover of this somewhere but can't find it online so here she is some with some other legends...
And don't forget Tina's mid 70's Country period...
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Wouldn't that be absolutely amazing!! Make it happen PopJustice Gods!!
Calling @ladylloyd
Can you have a word with Shiv please. We can get them to record some Tanya Tucker covers at the same time.
Can you have a word with Shiv please. We can get them to record some Tanya Tucker covers at the same time.
This is SOOOOOOOOO AMAZING
How any record company could fuck this up is beyond me. Stick them on Jools Holland singing like this, get A listed on Radio 2, create a narrative around them being all grown up and (who new) AMAZING singers.
If Emilie Sandie and Sam Smith can sell millions there is no excuse for this going nowhere.
LEGENDARY DIVA ELIMINATIONS
#15 - Tammy Wynette
The One That Got Away
For any other diva this would have been their first record entered not The One That Got Away. Easily her 2nd most famous and song and again one of the most well know records in country history it couldn't be featured here because although it was from a different album this was the single immediately preceeding Stand By Your Man and thus disqualified.
It was of course a giant Country #1 in the US and reached #12 on the UK charts.
Baby Clyde's Favourite
My dear departed friend Miss Sheba Seymour was obsessed with Tammy. She used to sing her great songs like Kids Say The Darndest Things, I Don't Wanna Play House and the innuendo laden Cowboys Don't Shoot Straight Like They Used To all the time.
She asked me to go and see Tammy, Kenny Rogers and Glen Campbell in concert at Wembley 1996 and for some reason I can't remember, I didn't go. Regretted it ever since. WTF was I thinking???
Anyway this is my favourite Tammy song. What a tune.....
#15 - Tammy Wynette
The One That Got Away
For any other diva this would have been their first record entered not The One That Got Away. Easily her 2nd most famous and song and again one of the most well know records in country history it couldn't be featured here because although it was from a different album this was the single immediately preceeding Stand By Your Man and thus disqualified.
It was of course a giant Country #1 in the US and reached #12 on the UK charts.
Baby Clyde's Favourite
My dear departed friend Miss Sheba Seymour was obsessed with Tammy. She used to sing her great songs like Kids Say The Darndest Things, I Don't Wanna Play House and the innuendo laden Cowboys Don't Shoot Straight Like They Used To all the time.
She asked me to go and see Tammy, Kenny Rogers and Glen Campbell in concert at Wembley 1996 and for some reason I can't remember, I didn't go. Regretted it ever since. WTF was I thinking???
Anyway this is my favourite Tammy song. What a tune.....
Flatine is still the best record of the decade #FACT