Not me getting my wig tugged a biT by Jody and Sheila! If anything, The Glamorous Life and Real Love (or Looking For a New Love tbh) deserve top 15 placement AT LEAST!
Also, I never thought I would like Pebbles (especially after the TLC drama), but Girlfriend is some kind of sista empowerment anthem and I am HERE for it!
You've lied your last lie
And I've cried my last cry
I'm out the door, babe
There's other fish in the sea
GIRL-FRIEND!
How could you let him treat you so bad?
Not me getting my wig tugged a biT by Jody and Sheila! If anything, The Glamorous Life and Real Love (or Looking For a New Love tbh) deserve top 15 placement AT LEAST!
Also, I never thought I would like Pebbles (especially after the TLC drama), but Girlfriend is some kind of sista empowerment anthem and I am HERE for it!
You've lied your last lie
And I've cried my last cry
I'm out the door, babe
There's other fish in the sea
GIRL-FRIEND!
How could you let him treat you so bad?
YESSS GET YOUR LIFE. Queen of Religious Sass Pebbles TESTIFYING.
Let's get into Karyn White.
Born in 1965, singer in a church choir, backup vocalist before she got signed. She went on to marry Terry Lewis, so any similarities between her sound and Janet's at least make sense. (hyhy Pebbles/Vanessa/Jody/soon to be Paula)
Her first number one on the R&B Charts, and first top 20 on the Hot 100, was The Way I Feel About You.
But if you ask ANYONE of a certain age (wave at me!) what Karyn White song they remember the most, chances are their answer will be Superwoman.
Her second number one on the R&B Charts, and just missing the top ten on the Hot 100, Superwoman its impact could be felt globally. Faye Wong covered it in Cantonese! #aliciacouldnever
The biggest hit off of her debut album - and the second biggest of her career - came with the Babyface-assisted Secret Rendezvous, which finally gave her a top ten single on the Hot 100 - and made her the first woman to have her first three singles all top the R^B charts. Take that, Janet and Whitney!
The Way I Feel About You
Superwoman
Secret Rendezvous
May be shocking to you, but before 1985, she had no solo career to speak of.
It sounds like a castoff from Whitney's first album, and that's why it works. It went to number on BLACK RADIO, and became her FIRST solo hit on the pop charts.
But no one could have expected the barnstorming success of her duet with Michael McDonald, On My Own.
An unusually somber topic - life after divorce, co-written by LEGEND Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer-Sager (who were divorcing at the time! - and an unusually restrained vocal by Patti (she let Michael McD outsing her!) - proved to be the ticket, as On My Own became, in 1986, Patti's first and only number one hit. It also was the last hit that Bacharach would write.
OMO was the highlight of Patti's solo career, and one example of life after it is here. In - I wanna say 1989? - Patti got the chance to sing a song called If You Asked Me To. R&B radio ate it up, but pop and AC wouldn't touch it.
A few years later, a young chanteuse (literally since she's French-Canadian!) covered it. It went top ten.
As you can hear, Celine pulled a Rihanna when she head Ester Dean's demo of Rude Boy/Sia's demo of Diamonds and copied Patti's SINGLE note for note, inflection for inflection.
