It was prime time for the second album, and Jody was rearing. Fresh off her Grammy WIN for Best New Artist (hyhy won a Grammy before Janet AND Madonna! The Jody reign wouldn't let up), Jody was not taking prisoners. She had scores to settle.
First were deadbeat lovers. Using (now auteur) David Fincher BEFORE Madonna, Real Love broke the record for most nominations for a female video at the 1989 VMAs. It was also Jody's next top ten hit.
V3$$3L, you've got to give it up! Latinazza's coming for you.
Next was a friend and former member of Shalamar, noted homosexual Jeffrey Daniel (whom she met on Soul Train!). He had burned her, as most homosexuals usually do to their closest female friends, and she had to get back. IN SONG. How Swiftian of her.
Friends will go down as being the FIRST (or one of the first #kenyamoore) song by a female artist to include a rap break from a respected hip-hopper. Can't get more respected than Eric B. & Rakim!
Next was the ballad, and Jody served her best Michael for her vocal on Everything.
Her fourth, and last, top ten. We miss you Jojo!
Looking for a New Love
Don't You Want Me
Real Love
Friends
Everything
I'll glad y'all are appreciating this. Better be good to me!
OMG PLEASE TELL ME THAT SONG'S GONNA BE ON THIS!!!
LOVE seeing Queen Pat on this, too. Would've liked it if "The Ooh Ooh Song", "Invincible", "Sex as a Weapon", or even "Shadows of the Night" had been included in this rate, too. But I'm soooo happy that "All Fired Up" is getting that appreciation. Totally giving it a 10
Back with another quality and informative rate... and with the quickness, Ace sis!
I'm gonna have to catch up with this when I get back home later. I've always wanted to delve more into the 80s pop girls since I don't have much from them and it was a little before my time.
I hope Paula is in to slay with ha flawless 80s bops. I need her to get recognition for something other than being the messy AI judge
OMG PLEASE TELL ME THAT SONG'S GONNA BE ON THIS!!!
LOVE seeing Queen Pat on this, too. Would've liked it if "The Ooh Ooh Song", "Invincible", "Sex as a Weapon", or even "Shadows of the Night" had been included in this rate, too. But I'm soooo happy that "All Fired Up" is getting that appreciation. Totally giving it a 10
Of course! But first ...
... I hope you all are somewhat familiar with the legend of Anna Mae Bullock. Or, you know, Tina Turner.
By the 80s, Tina was years out from her marriage to creative genius/serial abuser Ike Turner. She was trying the solo thing, but it wasn't connecting. She got a top forty hit with a cover of Al Green's Let's Stay Together, but that was about it ...
... until, well the music industry is a funny thing. One song gets offered to one artist, who rejects it (Cliff Richard), then is wanted by another artist who is refused by label heads (Phyllis Hyman), than a group records it! (Bucks Fizz)
Somehow it's decided that the song would work best with female vocals. It lands with Tina her team. The rest, as they say ...
... is What's Love Got to Do With It. Whoever A&Red this was a genius, as it was the PERFECT song for Tina. Somewhere between a waltz and a boogie, a rock number and a new R&B track, it painted Tina not as a victim - but as a survivor.
It won three Grammys, became a worldwide smash, and sent her, for the first time in her career, to number one.
Fun Fact: For fifteen years, Tina Turner was the oldest woman to gain a number one single. Guess who broke that record?
