beat my baby

by: hhex65

Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 23:50:21 PM MST

I guess I immediately jumped to an outlying approach in order to say Ronnie Spector's situation was worse because although Tina Turner's was an inhuman and terrible situation I felt the fear could have even been compounded in Ronnie Spector's case since she had in a sense been shown the Ace, the prophecy that Diana Ross was meant to fulfill so to speak; she was shown a possibility that was constantly under threat of being snatched away.

Whereas, Tina Turner would have had no expectations that she should have been treated fairly in any way, or celebrated for her genius in the United States during the time she was coming up. That is, I said, I highly doubt that Ed Sullivan would have given a second thought if he'd seen a make-up padded black eye on Tina Turner-- whereas if Mama Cass had a sad look on her face he'd be all concerned etc.

Today I was thinking about it some more and then I thought I was totally wrong, just talking smoke-- and why were we sitting around comparing misery like that, anyway? Gee whiz, what gave us the detachment to utter such things? In my defense, I get a real endorphin high from work; that plus the pizza probably helped.

This is why I don't read music biographies.