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Hi Moralman, thanks for the link. Looks interesting. I'll look it over after I get home.
Speaking of Disney..........................I was going to mention that those big name celebs who got their starts working for Disney all seem to have something weird going on with them. Britney, Christina, Justin, etc. If they're not mindcontrolled, then it's something weird.
I mentioned on the old "Anagram" thread that Britney's name anagrams to "Trap by Eisners." Eisner, as in, Michael Eisner, head of Disney. What a co-ink-ee-dink on that one, eh? Too weird is all I can say.
I do hesitate to start pointing fingers and naming names and making accusations and guesses about who's mindcontrolled out there, that's why I backed away from this thread. Didn't feel entirely right. But at the same time, I think it's still important to bring up the concept of Illuminati controlled celebs, and those whose music, movies, etc. serve their agenda. Media and entertainment has become an insane overexposed circus fiasco. Everybody's nearly naked, and they've got kids flaunting their bodies now. This isn't normal. These people are puppets. We're supposed to believe that these kids do this because of the allure of fame and money, but I believe there's something else going on. Most parents wouldn't allow their kids to carry on this way, so, the fact that these celeb kids' parents do says it all. We all eat up entertainment to some extent, whether it be music, movies, t.v., magazines, or whatever. So for that reason I think it's important for everybody to be clued in that all is not what it seems to be. That many of these celebs aren't even themselves, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, Elvis was a biggie in the mind controlled puppet department, from what I hear. I wrote a write-up on the movie "Bubba Ho-Tep" over in the "Movies" thread, showing how that movie parallels what the real situation with Elvis was. Maybe I'll cut and paste and move it over to here, since it's relevant. Marilyn Monroe as well. Fritz wrote about her. I'll find that one too and post it.
Thing is, after looking closer and noticing the Illuminati / Brotherhood symbolims going on with these celebs, and analyzing their oddball behavior, it really does take the fun out of entertainment. Kind of ruined it for me, anyway. I have a harder time watching movies. But that's a good thing I guess. Better to be informed than to be ignorant.
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Back with Her First Studio Album in 17 Years, the Disco Diva Opens Up About Overcoming Depression Thanks to Her Family and Faith
When Donna Summer hit the American Idol stage for its May 21 finale, the Queen of Disco did what she does best: got the audience up on its feet to dance. For a few minutes, it was like time-traveling to the '70s, when Summer's fans hustled and boogied under glittery spinning balls to smashes like "I Feel Love," "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff." Returning to the stage on Idol night was "fantastic," says Summer.
The Idol performance helped kick off a comeback for the 59-year-old diva. She also has a new album, Crayons (her first studio album in 17 years), with the groove-worthy single "Stamp Your Feet." And in July, she'll step out on a 29-city tour.
But the siren who once gave bell-bottomed clubgoers reason to get down almost didn't make it back: After 9/11, Summer suffered a crippling case of depression.
"I was really freaked out by the horrific experiences of that day," says Summer, who was at her Manhattan apartment during the attacks. "I couldn't go out, I didn't want to talk to anybody. I had to keep the blinds down and stay in my bedroom." Summer didn't seek help until her best friend, author Alice Harris, intervened. "She says, 'I've called a shrink for you who's on the end of your street,'" Summer recalls. "Walking there felt like 90 miles. I was so burdened, I was panting. I went, 'I can make it to the end of the street. I know I can.'" Though therapy helped, Summer chose not to take antidepressants. "I had taken [medication] before and realized it could do physical things to my psyche," says Summer, who wrote in her 2003 autobiography, Ordinary Girl: The Journey, that she attempted suicide at the height of her career in 1976. "But emotionally, I had to stop focusing on negativism."
A born-again Christian, Summer (real name: LaDonna Gaines) also turned to her faith. "I went to church, and light came back into my soul," says the singer. "That heaviness was gone." Now, when she feels down, she prays—and doesn't sweat the small stuff. "When I attack myself on little, nonsense issues, I start thanking God for my life. I look at people in Afghanistan and Darfur, and I'm like, 'Hello? Wake up, Miss Summer!'"
Summer also got support from her husband of 28 years, singer-song-writer Bruce Sudano, 59, and their daughters Brooklyn, 27, and Amanda, 25, as well as Mimi, 35, her daughter with ex-husband Helmuth Sommer. "She's gotten through it with the support of a man who adores her," says Alice Harris. Says Sudano: "I call her the Empress. We understand each other now better than ever."
Their low-key life in Nashville, where they've lived since 1995, makes it easier to stay serene. "There's a sense of real life here," says Summer, happy to be away from the pressures of eternal youth in Hollywood. "I have hips, and I like to eat," she says, staying healthy by walking and doing Pilates. "I'm too chicken to go under the knife." Instead, she keeps young by pampering her daughter Mimi's kids, Vienna, 10, and Savanna, 8. "I make them a bubble bath and bring them cider in champagne glasses," says Summer. "They boss me around and get a total kick out of it."
But Summer, who counts Rihanna among her favorite new singers, couldn't keep the dance-tastic side of herself down. "I was on my couch eating potato chips, thinking, 'I gotta get out of this house, or I'll wind up a desperate, old housewife,'" says Summer, who then recorded the eclectic "Crayons". Along with uptempo tunes cowritten with a songwriter for Fergie, Summer sings about Darfur ("Bring Down the Reign," which references Angelina Jolie as an "angel of light") and even explores reggae, folk and Latin sounds.
Now, with a North American tour on the horizon, Summer couldn't be more thrilled—and she's worked hard for it, honey. "Life always serves you challenges," says Summer. "I'm looking to the future, and life is good. I'm weathering the storms of life."
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20204169,00.html
Geffen Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by David Geffen in 1980, founder of Warner's Asylum records. Fired from his position at Warner Brothers Pictures in 1978, and locked in a 5-year contract with them, he convinced Warner to let him start the label. Geffen's first signee was Donna Summer, with her album The Wanderer become Geffen's first release. Later John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy sold millions after Lennon's murder, giving Geffen their first number one album and single.
Geffen would build their reputation throughout the 80's as a major pop label by signing the likes of Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Sonic Youth and Neil Young (who ultimately went back to Reprise Records). By the end of the decade the label became most famous for being a rock label by signing acts such as Guns N' Roses, Whitesnake and Aerosmith's comeback era. This lead to Geffen founding DGC Records to hold their more experimental rock groups (just in time for Alternative Rock to emerge).
Geffen's contract with Warner ended in 1990, with the label being sold to Universal (called MCA Records at the time). David Geffen, made a billionaire from stock and Panasonic's brief acquisition of Universal, decided to step down from his position in 1995 to focus on DreamWorks. During this time Geffen was one of the strongest independently managed labels of the time.
With Universal's acquisition of PolyGram in 1999, which lead them to pull in and reorganize their labels (independently operated included), Geffen was merged with A&M Records to form Interscope Records (interestingly, Interscope would later acquire Dream Works records who had been handling Geffen's distribution as a subsidiary up to that point). Geffen still operates as a separate entity, though much smaller to suit Interscope's needs. Since Geffen still had steady business, the Universal Music Group decided to fold MCA Records' artists into Geffen, diversifying their roster (Mary J. Blige, Blink-182, Common, etc.). Around the same time Dream Works Records also folded, with the majority of its signees being moved to Geffen. Needless to say, the roster had moved from pop-rock to everything. Geffen decided to go with this, signing the likes of Ashlee Simpson and Snoop Dogg.
With all this new-found diversity, Geffen found themselves standing on the same level as Interscope. Many industry insiders thought Geffen would go back to independence within UMG. Yet by 2007 Interscope had absorbed Geffen even more.
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Geffen
Don Henley spent many years in legal entanglements with record company Geffen Records. Following years of tension between Henley and the label, the dispute went public and the record company filed a $30-million breach-of-contract suit in Superior Court after receiving a notice from Henley saying he was terminating his contract even though he reportedly owed the company two more studio albums and a greatest-hits collection. Henley wanted to sign a publishing deal with EMI that would have been worth a few million dollars. Geffen Records stopped this from happening, which in turn upset Henley.
Geffen Records claimed that Henley was in breach of contract and Henley attempted to get out of his contract in 1993 based on an old statute. Under the statute, a California law enacted over 50 years ago to free actors from long-term studio deals, entertainers cannot be forced to work for any company for more than seven years. Geffen Records did not want Henley signing with any other label, and had an agreement from Sony and EMI that they would not sign Henley. Henley counter-sued Geffen Records claiming he was "blackballed" by David Geffen, who made agreements with other record labels not to sign him. Henley eventually became an outspoken advocate for musicians' rights, taking a stand against music labels whom he feels refuse to pay bands their due royalties. Henley came to terms with Geffen Records when the Eagles reunion took off and the company eventually took a large chunk of the profit from the reunion album. Glenn Frey was also in legal entanglements with his label, MCA Records (whose parent company had also acquired Geffen). Before the Eagles reunion tour could begin, the band had to file suit against Elektra Records, who had planned to release a new Eagles Greatest Hits album. The band won that battle.
Don Henley and Courtney Love testified at a California Senate hearing on that state's contractual laws in Sacramento on September 5, 2001. In 2002 Henley became the head of the Recording Artist's Coalition. The coalition's primary aim was to raise money to mount a legal and political battle against the major record labels. Henley says the group seeks to change the fundamental rules that govern most recording contracts, including copyright ownership, long-term control of intellectual property and unfair accounting practices. This group filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Napster case, urging District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel not to accept the industry's broad claims of works made for hire authorship.
A long period without a new recording followed, as Henley waited out a dispute with his record company while also participating in a 1994 Eagles reunion tour and live album. During the hiatus, Henley recorded a cover of "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" for the film Leap of Faith, provided background vocals for country star Trisha Yearwood's hit single "Walkaway Joe", and duetted with Patty Smyth on "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" and Roger Waters on "Watching TV" on Waters' Amused to Death album, in 1992. Henley provided the voice of Henry Faust in Randy Newman's Faust, a 1993 musical which was released on compact disc that year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Henley
Sony BMG's Burgundy Records Signs Legendary Singer Songwriter Donna Summer
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sony-bmgs-burgundy-records-signs-legendary-singer-songwriter-donna-summer-55984627.html
See a pattern, here?
A F SONY BMG BURGUNDY RECORDS LOGO SONY BMG BURGUNDY RECORDS LOGO Burgundy Records (SONY BMG) logo. (PRNewsFoto/SONY BMG)[AL] NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 06/08/2007
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- BURGUNDY RECORDS, SONY BMG's new
record label, announced today the signing of legendary singer songwriter
DONNA SUMMER.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060502/NYTU191LOGO-b )
"Donna Summer is a perfect fit for Burgundy and we couldn't be happier
to be working with her. She is an absolute legend -- a classic and timeless
vocalist who still has a great deal of demand and viability within the
marketplace," says Joe DiMuro, EVP/General Manager of Burgundy Records.
"I'm excited and very eager to get started. Let the games begin. It's
great to have Burgundy Records as my new musical family, "says Donna
Summer.
Donna is scheduled to go into the studio this Fall to record her new
album, which is currently in its initial planning stages.
About Donna Summer:
As one of the most important female artists of the 21st century, Donna
Summer has an extensive list of accomplishments including setting multiple
'firsts' within the music industry.
* Donna has won 5 Grammys and 6 American Music Awards
* Donna was the first female singer to have a #1 album and #1 single on
the Billboard charts simultaneously -- a feat she accomplished again
just a few months later, breaking her own record.
* Donna was the first artist to have three #1 double albums on the
Billboard charts consecutively (she still remains the only female artist
and solo act with this accomplishment).
* Donna was the first female solo artist with three #1 hits in a one year
period, topping the charts with the singles 'MacArthur Park,' 'Hot
Stuff,' and 'Bad Girls.'
* Her single 'No More Tears' (Enough Is Enough) was the first 12 inch
single to achieve gold status.
* For years, Donna held the record for having the most #1 "Dance (or
Disco) Songs of The Year" on the Billboard Year-End Charts only to be
tied by Madonna in 2002.
* Donna set another 'first' when NARAS recognized her ability in the rock
genre, awarding her the first Grammy ever given for the category of Best
Rock Female Vocal Performance for her platinum single 'Hot Stuff.'
* Donna has earned 14 Top 10 Singles on the Billboard Hot 100, four
reaching #1 as well as 12 Gold singles.
* Donna has earned the following RIAA certifications: , 2 double platinum
albums, 1 platinum album and 8 Gold albums
* 8 of Donna's songs have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, R&B, and
Dance charts
Donna Summer is in good company on Burgundy Records, joining legendary
artists Aaron Neville, America and Chaka Khan, all of whom have new records
on the way.
About Burgundy Records:
Burgundy Records, an imprint under SONY BMG's Strategic Marketing
Group, signs legendary multi-platinum artists and releases new titles in
conjunction with innovative marketing campaigns that promote their artists
through traditional and non-traditional channels. Their roster includes
Aaron Neville, America, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer and The New Orleans Social
Club.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment is a global recorded music joint venture
with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of local
artists and international superstars, as well as a vast catalog that
comprises some of the most important recordings in history. Sony BMG Music
Entertainment is 50% owned by Bertelsmann A.G. and 50% owned by Sony
Corporation of America.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sony-bmgs-burgundy-records-signs-legendary-singer-songwriter-donna-summer-55984627.html
Others working on the album included American record producer, Jim Jonsin who described the Rowland's new sound as Donna Summer-esque,[74]
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February 15, 2007 20:18
Toni Braxton settles lawsuit against manager
R&B star is now a free agent
http://www.nme.com/news/toni-braxton/26483
TLC’s T-Boz files for bankruptcy protection again
5:05 pm November 28, 2011, by Rodney Ho
http://blogs.ajc.com/the-buzz/2011/11/28/tlcs-t-boz-files-for-bankruptcy-protection/
Last week's Throwback Thursday got me thinking of something. This is actually a topic people have asked me about in the past, because clearly if any brain is going to contain this info, it's mine.
It involves the lip synching scandal of the early 90s. No not that one. There was another one, which people vaguely recall, so when they want all the facts, it's "Hey Jason, you know this... wasn't there another lip synching scandal?" Yes. Yes there was. It involved two groups, actually, C+C Music Factory and Black Box. Both featured the vocal stylings of one Martha Wash.
Solo career
Later, when the Weather Girls disbanded, Wash continued to lend her vocals to various dance and house music tracks. Several of them became massive pop, R&B and dance hits. She sang lead vocals on all three of Black Box's U.S. top-forty hits, including the top-ten smashes "Everybody Everybody" and "Strike It Up," as well as "I Don't Know Anybody Else," which charted at #23 in the United States. All three of these hit singles continued to receive regular club-play and mainstream radio airplay as of late April 2010. In addition, Wash sang lead vocals on the lesser-known Black Box tracks, "Fantasy," which charted at #5 in Great Britain, "Open Your Eyes," and "Hold On." All six of these songs appear on the Black Box album Dreamland. Also, she performed uncredited lead vocals on Seduction's "You're My One and Only (True Love)," and lead vocals on C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991.
Her post-Milli Vanilli litigation
But with the Milli Vanilli scandal still fresh in the minds of the music industry, Wash was also perturbed by the fact that her image had been labeled "unmarketable" because of her size. She was, in fact, so perturbed that she successfully sued to receive proper credit, and appropriate royalties, as the vocalist on all of these songs. Wash's courtroom efforts spurred legislation making vocal credits mandatory on Compact Discs and music videos. It also awarded her a recording contract with RCA Records, which led to her eponymous debut solo album in 1993. The album scored three top ten club/dance hits including "Carry On", "Give It to You" and "Runaround". The first two reached number one and featured a song written by Kenneth H. Williams, Sami McKinny and Denise Rich, "God Bless The Road", a stirring uplifting ballad noted in Billboard Magazine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Wash
It is reasonable to assume that most people reading this will, at some point, have gazed at a website like the one your correspondent has open before him as he types. It's one of those sites that seeks to inform that Things Are Not What They Seem or, at least, Not What They Would Have You Believe.
These websites adopt such uniformity of style and content that it's almost as if they're all being operated according to the diktats of some shadowy, but all-powerful steering committee, of the kind the sites are actually trying to warn you about. The sites flaunt gaudily apocalyptic graphics, bristle with audaciously punctuated headlines, and urge you towards reams of densely argued revelation, often published in eye-wateringly light text on a dark background. They are usually, for these reasons and more, utterly unreadable, but it doesn't really matter, because you know what they're going to say – 9/11 was an inside job, the world is secretly controlled by the Bilderberg group, global corporate dictatorship is imminent, and so on.
The website open before me now conforms to all of these tropes, but differs from all its seething peers in one key respect. It is not the work of some lonely, tinfoil-hatted denizen of his parents' basement, but of a multimillionaire rock star. It is jimcorr.com, the online presence of Jim Corr, guitarist with the Irish soft-rock band the Corrs. His Twitter feed – @jimcorrsays – keeps about 2,700 agog followers updated with such bulletins as "Newscaster alludes to Satanic government", "Severe child abuse goes to the top of the establishment", and "32 signs entire world being transformed into a futuristic big brother prison grid". If imagined as song titles, these certainly whet the appetite for a Jim Corr solo album.
Tragically, Corr declined to respond to requests for an interview, perhaps suspecting this newspaper to be an agent of the furtive, sinister elite that manipulates the lives of ordinary people to further its nefarious ends. A brisk YouTube trawl confirms, however, that Corr has not been shy about expanding on his views about Irish chatshows. Corr, to risk glibly reducing his panoramic thesis, is a "truther": that is, a person whose worldview is largely rooted in the belief that the terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 were a stunt contrived by the US government to excuse the subsequent Middle East wars.
Though the effort Corr invests in researching and propagating conspiracist dogma is unusual in the rock world, his possession of such views is not unique. Rock has always been fertile ground for the sowing and growing of such myths, and little wonder: the field is disproportionately populated by people who are overendowed with spare time, money, hallucinogenic drugs and delusions of grandeur, and/or correspondingly underequipped with common sense. Conspiracy theories flourish at all levels of the music industry, from the journeyman plodder whimpering that his decades of obscurity are due not to his manifest uselessness but to some backroom industry stitch-up, to the aggrieved music press reader accusing rock journalists of building a band up just to knock them down, to the successful, but dimwitted pseudo-sage megastar earnestly pronouncing on the vast range of subjects about which he knows nothing.
Corr has, or perhaps had, at least one ally in the "truther" cause, in the form of Matt Bellamy of Muse, who has used the phrase "inside job" in reference to 9/11 (a view he has since recanted, perhaps weary of being tittered at). Bellamy has also discussed various other conspiracy theories in a tone wilfully closer to that of the card-carrying adherent than the interested observer – up to and including David Icke's belief that many of our rulers are members of a breed of shape-shifting reptiles from a parallel dimension. (In fairness to Bellamy, he appears to have a sense of humour rare among subscribers to these ideas, once playing along gamely with a New Zealand television news show that, brilliantly, showed him portraits of various luminaries, and asked him to pick out the lizards.)
MIA last year outlined to the Observer her earnest beliefs that Facebook and Google were creations of the CIA, and that during her adolescence, the London borough of Tower Hamlets had been flooded with heroin on the instructions of its local MP, with a view to pacifying the local Bengali population. This is a common conspirazoid trope: the powers that claim to protect us are actually seeking to destroy us. Chuck D of Public Enemy has claimed both in song (Race Against Time) and on stage (more than once) that the World Health Organisation is, in fact, engaged in the propagation of racially targeted biological warfare. This was, granted, a while ago now, and Chuck's sporadic blog on Public Enemy's website is generally more sensible, but just as excitable conspiracy-mongers in days of yore used to send journalists interminable letters in green ink, so Chuck's website adheres to the equivalent contemporary trope of publishing in white writing on a black background for maximum eye-strain.
Possibly as a consequence of Public Enemy's incalculable influence, hip-hop has appeared all but determined to corner the market in conspiracy theorising. One Public Enemy old boy is especially prolific in this regard. Professor Griff, who departed the band under something of a cloud a couple of decades back, after making disobliging remarks about Jews – "Is it a coincidence that Jews run the jewellery business, and it's named jewellery?" he said to the Washington Times – can still be found on YouTube reading from William Cooper's absurd conspiracist tract Behold a Pale Horse, and claiming that Jay-Z and his business partner Damon Dash are agents of the Illuminati (Jay-Z has disputed this, not unreasonably, archly observing: "I can't even get into a golf club in Palm Springs.")
Wu-Tang Clan have been proponents of Griff's teachings on the New World Order, the unified field theory of conspiracies, which posits that the world is controlled by a clique of omnipotent puppetmasters who amuse themselves by planting obtuse clues to their doings on American currency. The Grammy-winning rapper Prodigy, of Mobb Deep, recently released from prison, is another sworn enemy of the Illuminati, and another who believes Jay-Z is among their number. Canibus once upped the ante still further, setting out his stall on his 1998 debut Can-I-Bus with the track Channel Zero, which appeared to suggest that almost all the conspiracies along the wilder shores of popular culture – alien abductions, Freemasonry, cattle mutilations, DNA testing, Bible codes – are themselves united in some sort of overarching superconspiracy.
There are few beliefs so daft that a musician won't espouse them, even the people old enough to know better. Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, according to Andrew Smith's book Moondust, is a Moon landings sceptic ("I never really believed they went, to be honest with you"). Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac has expressed approval of the witterings of David Icke ("I find that sort of stuff really interesting," he told Word magazine in 2004, before speculating perplexingly on the number of US presidents who may have been Freemasons). Megadeth's Dave Mustaine told conspirazoid American radio host Alex Jones in 2009 of his apprehension vis-a-vis the imminent one world government, and his plans to escape it by moving to Canada.
All of which is a necessarily incomplete survey, and all of which also neglects the rich heritage of conspiracy theories that flourish about rock, pop and hip-hop, as opposed to within it. Many of these are as much staples of conspiracy thought as the assassination of John F Kennedy – the notions that Elvis Presley faked his death, that Kurt Cobain was murdered, that John Lennon was whacked by the FBI/CIA/Freemasons, that Paul McCartney was disposed of and replaced with an impostor by the rest of the Beatles, who then – for unexplored reasons – embedded their album covers with clues to their crime, that the iconography flaunted by Kiss contained hints of allegiance to Satan and/or Adolf Hitler (the latter accusation, especially, must have bemused Kiss's substantially Jewish lineup). Hip-hop has also contributed in this regard: various baroque theories circulate the deaths of Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E and Biggie Smalls.
Above and beyond even these state of rarefied paranoia, there are those who have insisted that pretty much all modern popular culture is itself a conspiracy theory, intended to (depending on your predisposition) subvert public morality. The urtext of this viewpoint is Rhythm, Riots and Revolution, the 1966 philippic by American evangelist David A Noebel, which held that rock'n'roll was a Soviet psy-ops weapon – or, as he put it, "an elaborate, calculated, scientific technique aimed at rendering a generation of American youth neurotic through nerve-jamming, mental deterioration and retardation".
Of course, given that Jim Corr and all the abovementioned have been raised in the rock'n'roll-dominated period since the publication of Noebel's tract, perhaps he was on to something.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/21/popandrock-hip-hop
MIA last year outlined to the Observer her earnest beliefs that Facebook and Google were creations of the CIA, and that during her adolescence, the London borough of Tower Hamlets had been flooded with heroin on the instructions of its local MP, with a view to pacifying the local Bengali population.
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And, I get to communicate with many species here and elsewhere. It is all telepathy. It's like a by-product or quirky little spiritual conduit/side effect from the chemical imbalances in my brain. Another cool part: I can multi-task: i.e. I can have both a telepathic conversation in the astral realm, and a conversation with a person here in 3D, at the same time.
I do not know why yet, but for some reason this "gift" is really disturbing to horses. I scare them, which hurts my feelings, of course. I suppose I would not mind so much if they were not so dramatic about it. I do not need a hoof to the face. They could simply walk away, if they chose.
See link above for the post as it appeared in its entirety. It was a great process, but much better suited, elsewhere.
A third and final album was again helmed by David Kahne, which Allmusic writer Stewart Mason speculated was a "reaction against the more commercial sound of Benefactor.[10] By this time, Carter had been replaced by Aaron Smith.[7] Instincts was released in October 1984, debuted at No. 68 on the Billboard 200,[9] and proved to be the band's best-selling album.[10] It also launched their most successful single, "A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)," which broke the Billboard Top 40 and peaked at No. 35.[9] Critical reactions were positive.[11] Despite being the band's most successful effort to date, Columbia pulled the band's promotional support while on a nationwide tour. "The very next town we got to after they made that decision, there wasn't an A&R person there," said Iyall. "[There] was no local person there, there were no interviews and in-stores arranged as they had been. All that just ground to a halt." The band returned to San Francisco and soon broke up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_Void
"Umbrella" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna, featuring a rap verse by Jay-Z. The song was written by The-Dream, Christopher Stewart, Kuk Harrell and Jay-Z, and was produced by Stewart for Rihanna's third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). The song was originally written for recording artist Britney Spears, who rejected it. "Umbrella" is a contemporary R&B, hip hop, and dance-pop song and lyrically it refers to a romantic and platonic relationship and the strength of that relationship. It is generally considered Rihanna's signature song.
"Umbrella" was well received by music critics, many of whom appreciated the "ella, ella" hook and also Rihanna's convincing vocals with which she delivers the chorus. Entertainment Weekly ranked the song number one on the 10 Best Singles of 2007, while Rolling Stone and Time listed the song at number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007. The song has earned Rihanna several awards and nominations. In 2007, the song won two awards at the MTV Video Music Awards, when it was nominated for four. At the 50th Grammy Awards, "Umbrella" also earned Rihanna and Jay-Z a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in addition to receiving nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
The song serves as the lead single to the album, and was released worldwide on March 29, 2007 through Def Jam Recordings. "Umbrella" was a commercial success, topping the charts in Australia, Canada, Germany, France, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In the United Kingdom, where the song's chart performance generated controversy when the country was experiencing excessive flooding and large amounts of rain at the time, it is deemed an iconic song and was one of the most played songs on radio in the 2000s. It managed to stay at number one on the UK Singles Chart for ten consecutive weeks, the longest run at number one for any single of that decade. The single was one of the highest digital debuts in the United States and remained at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks.
The single's accompanying music video was directed by Chris Applebaum and features Rihanna's nude body covered in silver paint. The video earned Rihanna a Video of the Year at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards and Most Watched Video on MuchMusic.com at MuchMusic Video Awards. Along with countless amateurs, "Umbrella" has been covered by several notable performers from a variety of musical genres, including Taylor Swift, OneRepublic, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, Vanilla Sky and The Baseballs. Rihanna performed the song at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, 2008 BRIT Awards and was the closing song of the Good Girl Gone Bad, Last Girl on Earth, and Loud Tours.
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