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Post by Bokiluis on May 27, 2017 14:28:22 GMT
To me, a lifelong fan, Diana's 90s releases, easily rivals her domestic 70s peak. Critically, from 1991's "The Force Behind the Power", personally tied with "The Boss" to 1997's "Everyday is a New Day"....it was a most exciting decade. 3 holiday albums and encompassing Greatest Hits and 2 excellent remix albums...as a fan I could have asked for nothing more. As the second class Motown of the 90s kept dropping the ball commercially, EMI ran with the ball and made the decade commercially potent internationally. Simply put, she became even a bigger Superstar Diva internationally. Timing was perfect that international sales now outpaced domestic sales 60/40%! Stated another way, she made multi-millions for EMI.
Somewhere in all this critical and commercial success was "Take Me Higher", a simply flawless album.
The debut single remains one of her very best dance songs. "If You're Not Gonna Love Me" has the hot pop soul of "diana". Like "Upside Down" the closing instrumental groove was like the encore of one of her best concert performances. The pop ballads "Voice of the Heart" and "Only Love Conquers All" boldly reminds American radio how she really is in her own pop stratosphere.
Then she even find room to salute her movie debut with the fragile heartbreak of "I Thought We Were Still in Love". At the Universal Ampitheater date, she held the audience in a silent awe as Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson proudly stood in honor of the Queen of Motown thankful of their role in understanding she had long proven them that she became the global phenomenon, they knew early on.
Then she transformed another anthem into a hit again and made me not resist the song so......saluting her gay fans who had indeed survived the Big "A", the iconic video into the Super Bowl stunner as none other than a helicopter took her higher becoming one of the Top 10'Super Bowl half-time shows still a quarter of a century later. Motown once again fumbled the bowl while EMI brought it to the edges of the international Top 10!
Were that enough, as the main reviewer, fans marveled in 3-5 b-sides/bonus cuts my favorite being "Too Many Nights" proving to her fans there is no such thing when you under the wonders of Ross!
The international stadium tour with The Two Tenors, another entry into the Guinness World of Records, a 2nd declaration by Billboard as Entertainer of the Century (1976/1994), the plethora of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the World Music Awards to the Grammys to the Kennedy Center Honors......the Lady indeed meant it when she sang "Take Me Higher" into the millennium years!!!!
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Post by mpn1jco on May 27, 2017 14:42:22 GMT
I thought Take Me Higher was a great album and one of the best albums of her solo career when it was released. I was still a hardcore fan at that point. When I listen to the album now I am not impressed. It is one of her best albums, but that is not saying very much considering the plethora of mediocre product she has flooded the market with. When I recently listened to the album, and b-sides in particular the deterioration in her voice is so prominent. Tracks such as I'm So Happy To See You Aain, Soul Kiss, Swing It, and Too Many Nights are unlistenable. The album is poorly engineered and considerable work was needed on her vocals, both on her behalf and by the engineers/producers.
I remember I played a track for my sister because I thought it was really great. She asked me, completely unimpressed by what she had just heard and asked , "What is all this whispering about?"
I fully understand her point now. I didn't at the time. This album was doomed to fail particularly at a time when the country was in melisma fever over Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and Celine Dion and many other singers with considerable vocal ability.
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Post by hector on Jun 1, 2017 4:02:26 GMT
I thought Take Me Higher was a great album and one of the best albums of her solo career when it was released. I was still a hardcore fan at that point. When I listen to the album now I am not impressed. It is one of her best albums, but that is not saying very much considering the plethora of mediocre product she has flooded the market with. When I recently listened to the album, and b-sides in particular the deterioration in her voice is so prominent. Tracks such as I'm So Happy To See You Aain, Soul Kiss, Swing It, and Too Many Nights are unlistenable. The album is poorly engineered and considerable work was needed on her vocals, both on her behalf and by the engineers/producers.
I remember I played a track for my sister because I thought it was really great. She asked me, completely unimpressed by what she had just heard and asked , "What is all this whispering about?"
I fully understand her point now. I didn't at the time. This album was doomed to fail particularly at a time when the country was in melisma fever over Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and Celine Dion and many other singers with considerable vocal ability.
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Post by Sammy7819 on Jun 3, 2017 23:33:31 GMT
Now SisterWoman, Marv-Hector/DetroitDIES313, the only person that sucks around here is you BITCH. You suck old The old gray haired man that runs the Soulful Detroit for Sissies Forum. You suck up to aunty mary Wilkins who can't stand your creepy, faggy fat ass. Now isn't it time to go and suck that old nasty sissy from Cuba dry again before he enters your whoreish old hole. You showing signs of dementia you filthy diseased troll, backing a nobody loser like crackhead Moisty Watkins proves you are definitely insane. You and that old loose assed Cuban Ho of a boyfriend TWTR4EVAH are her only supporters. All everyone else can see is a broke, forgotten, drunken, backstabbing, hanclapping, money grabbing old HO with meagre talent. That's EXACTLY who aunty mary really is and you are a piece of shit on the shoe of life. FYI, Me, Glen Jones, Martha Marvelette, Ron Rossmore, Miss Brown and thewizboy all still laughing our asses off at them photos of you sucking up to the moderater at Soulful Detroit at that book signing in Detroit. BigfatGURL, you got no fucking shame or self respect, you butt ugleeeeee and you as big as aunt mary's heifer of a daughter Turdkissa Ferrer. Damn you must weigh 450lbs LMAO soulfuldetroit.com/showthread.php?17537-Men-Of-Motown-event&highlight=Book+signing+Detroit |
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Post by ranran on Jun 6, 2017 5:44:06 GMT
I thought Take Me Higher was a great album and one of the best albums of her solo career when it was released. I was still a hardcore fan at that point. When I listen to the album now I am not impressed. It is one of her best albums, but that is not saying very much considering the plethora of mediocre product she has flooded the market with. When I recently listened to the album, and b-sides in particular the deterioration in her voice is so prominent. Tracks such as I'm So Happy To See You Aain, Soul Kiss, Swing It, and Too Many Nights are unlistenable. The album is poorly engineered and considerable work was needed on her vocals, both on her behalf and by the engineers/producers.
I remember I played a track for my sister because I thought it was really great. She asked me, completely unimpressed by what she had just heard and asked , "What is all this whispering about?"
I fully understand her point now. I didn't at the time. This album was doomed to fail particularly at a time when the country was in melisma fever over Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and Celine Dion and many other singers with considerable vocal ability.
I think Too Many Nights would have made an excellent A side. Don't know if it would have been a number one, but definitely top 10. Everyone seems to like it. |
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Post by You Are My Heroin on Jun 6, 2017 14:20:45 GMT
I thought Take Me Higher was a great album and one of the best albums of her solo career when it was released. I was still a hardcore fan at that point. When I listen to the album now I am not impressed. It is one of her best albums, but that is not saying very much considering the plethora of mediocre product she has flooded the market with. When I recently listened to the album, and b-sides in particular the deterioration in her voice is so prominent. Tracks such as I'm So Happy To See You Aain, Soul Kiss, Swing It, and Too Many Nights are unlistenable. The album is poorly engineered and considerable work was needed on her vocals, both on her behalf and by the engineers/producers.
I remember I played a track for my sister because I thought it was really great. She asked me, completely unimpressed by what she had just heard and asked , "What is all this whispering about?"
I fully understand her point now. I didn't at the time. This album was doomed to fail particularly at a time when the country was in melisma fever over Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey and Celine Dion and many other singers with considerable vocal ability.
I think Too Many Nights would have made an excellent A side. Don't know if it would have been a number one, but definitely top 10. Everyone seems to like it. Bullshit. Her career went down the drain in the 90's when she started doing all that adult contemporary shit that all sounded the same. If she had been smart, she would have went down the Cher route of doing full-out dance albums since gays were pretty much her only audience left. Instead she just released a few dance singles: "Take Me Higher", that awful "I Will Survive" remake, and a remix of "Not Over You Yet". |
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Post by LA Drummer on Jun 6, 2017 21:17:26 GMT
I think Too Many Nights would have made an excellent A side. Don't know if it would have been a number one, but definitely top 10. Everyone seems to like it. Bullshit. Her career went down the drain in the 90's when she started doing all that adult contemporary shit that all sounded the same. If she had been smart, she would have went down the Cher route of doing full-out dance albums since gays were pretty much her only audience left. Instead she just released a few dance singles: "Take Me Higher", that awful "I Will Survive" remake, and a remix of "Not Over You Yet". I have to laugh at Ross singing I Will Survive after her comments of Mary Wilson singing Supremes songs. A horrible rendition, weak. |
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Post by hector on Jun 7, 2017 2:52:59 GMT
Bullshit. Her career went down the drain in the 90's when she started doing all that adult contemporary shit that all sounded the same. If she had been smart, she would have went down the Cher route of doing full-out dance albums since gays were pretty much her only audience left. Instead she just released a few dance singles: "Take Me Higher", that awful "I Will Survive" remake, and a remix of "Not Over You Yet". I have to laugh at Ross singing I Will Survive after her comments of Mary Wilson singing Supremes songs. A horrible rendition, weak. |
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Post by mpn1jco on Jun 10, 2017 11:48:18 GMT
I have to laugh at Ross singing I Will Survive after her comments of Mary Wilson singing Supremes songs. A horrible rendition, weak.  Susan Boyle has sold more record than Ross has. Ross has moved approximately 20 million records worldwide in her solo career. Susan Boyle has sold 25 million with only 6 studio albums compared to the 37 albums of original material released by Ross.
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Post by roberta75 on Jun 13, 2017 8:13:04 GMT
I have to laugh at Ross singing I Will Survive after her comments of Mary Wilson singing Supremes songs. A horrible rendition, weak.
Fondly Yours,
Roberta |
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Post by chainreaction on Jun 13, 2017 8:59:21 GMT
Diana Ross cannot really sing.
Fondly Yours,
Roberta |
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Post by hector on Jun 13, 2017 22:35:57 GMT
You live in a fantasy world. You are in my prayers.
Fondly Yours,
Roberta |
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Post by Anonymous on Jun 16, 2017 0:22:21 GMT
Robert darling, if this forum wanted to hear from an asshole we could just fart honeybunch. He gets on my last nerve at SD. I never believed he was a woman. |
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Post by roberta75 on Jun 18, 2017 15:54:18 GMT
Robert darling, if this forum wanted to hear from an asshole we could just fart honeybunch. You have never seen my mouth dear, and if you do it will be in court for either threatening me or slandering my name. You have a blessed Sunday. Fondly Yours, Roberta |
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Post by chainreaction on Jun 18, 2017 16:31:08 GMT
and they would smell like roses compare to the filth coming out of Roberta's mouth! You have never seen my mouth dear, and if you do it will be in court for either threatening me or slandering my name. You have a blessed Sunday. Fondly Yours, Roberta |
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