Which Disco Star???

[Leatherman]

Seems there has been a lot of deaths in the disco/soul fraternity of late.

Which disco star would you like see pop their clogs next?

Patti, Donna, Theo, France, or some obsure nobody that only proper heads have heard of?

[markydefad]

Leatherman, that reaches a new low...Even for YOU!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

[K-Bee]

Agree totally Marky!!
This is highly Inaproppiate!! :x

[Studio74]

I see Leatherman has a very dark sense of humour...

[DJ Jimmy M]

how bout..what degenerate rapper would ya like to see go? id have a whole list of those.

[K-Bee]

LOL now ya talkin' Jimmy! :lol:
Unfortunately there are way to many to list. the server would surely crash! :lol:

[Studio74]

Now Dj Jimmy M...that´s a real topic... :lol: .Although i still like some Hip-Hop,most Hip-Hop is really bad theses days...

[judydoggie]

Upon learning of the death of diva Joan Crawford, Bette Davis was asked by the press for comment. Without skipping a beat, Ms. Davis replied, "My mother always told me to speak good of the dead. She's dead. That's good."

But really, folks; guys, I'm a Buddhist. In our sect, at least, we believe in reincarnation, and we either move up or down in the scheme of enlightenment depending upon how we've either transgressed upon or made life better for our fellow creatures.

When Ray Charles passed recently, I wept openly for nearly a day. Yesterday I read in "Advertising Age" that Starbuck's Coffee has a co-op deal with Concord Records to sell his last album. I find it absolutely disgusting that a genius who came from such abject poverty and lifted himself up by the bootstraps (and inspired so many of the artists that we pay homage to right here on this site) is having his image and his work being exploited so recently posthumously by a symbol of elitist conspicuous consumption as Starbucks. Shame on them.

Let's re-think death and celebrate life.

[Pizzazz]

While i wouldn't get a a kick from the demise of even the most degenerate of rappers i do sometimes wish some of them could be outted from the closet. The hip hop culture's tolerance of homophobia drives me crazy !

Judydoggie, we laughed out loud at that Bette Davis quote !

[efunk_adelic]

Originally Posted by K-Bee

Agree totally Marky!!
This is highly Inaproppiate!! :x

yeah that....

[judydoggie]

1. I'll re-iterate what I said before about abhoring death.
2. I do, however, like the way the topic's been turned around by some of our post-ers vis-a-vis hip-hop and rap.

Years ago, Frank Sinatra allowed some stuff to get published on his Reprise label that nobody else would touch. And it sold! Before that, Capitol was issuing Sinatra, and his hip gyrations caused just as many fathers to prohibit their daughters to attend his concerts as did Elvis' stage machinations cause concern among the "moral majority." I've always been extremely liberal about allowing the music industry to publish whatever they want to. I started having second thoughts, however, in the late '70s when punk was enjoying its heyday.

Nowadays, you've got rappers discussing killing police officers, raping "bitches" and "ho's" (never do we hear them referred to as ladies or women). And just when I thought that somebody was doing something about the incitement to violence on these records -- I listened to Eminem's grammy-winning album in its entirety after watching his performance with Elton John -- I was exhausted by the gratuitous violence and, above all that, the patent lack of talent. Shame on Elton John to appear on stage with a young man who's the poster-boy for homophobia in record lyrics and who sings (speaks) about raping his own mother and killing her and myriad other individuals on his record. The publicists really pulled one off on that (or maybe Sir Elton had Eminem do a little pulling -- who knows).

A few tricky rhymes does not a super-star make. However, this stuff has crossed over from the neighborhoods where it provided comfort to fatherless teen males in similar situations, filled with fear but even more terrified to admit that they were afraid -- because that would somehow tarnish their precious manhood. That goes to the psychology behind the gratuitous homophobia in the rap and hip-hop genres. Grow up without a father figure or with one who is completely dysfunctional and funky things happen to your need to demonstrate that you have a penis.

What, I guess, really disappoints me the most, is that the people who're producing these hip-hoppers and rappers could, in fact, become amazingly effective father-figures to these kids. Problem is, they're simply passing the baton of dysfunction and keeping it up glamorizing the guns, the jewelry, the abuse of women, the drinking and drug use, etc. How can these new kids on the block keep out of trouble when the major players in that niche of the business are getting shot up all the time?

I'm so disgusted by it all that I think, fine. You can take the boy outta the ghetto but you can't take the ghetto outta the boy. If they want to shoot it out in nightclubs -- I invite them to do so. The police call it assault with a deadly weapon. I call it thinning the herd.

[Forrrce]

Originally Posted by judydoggie

The police call it assault with a deadly weapon. I call it thinning the herd.

When innocent people die, too?

[Leatherman]

My post was made when I slightly worse for wear, so apolgoies if it offended some sensitive types. I was not wishing death on anyone (though it's waiting for all of us at some point in the not too distant future), just commenting on the amount of stars from the 70's/80's who seem to be passing away at an alarming rate in a rather dark way.

judydoggie wrote:
The police call it assault with a deadly weapon. I call it thinning the herd.

This sounds like the sort of thing George Bush would come out with!?
:-?