Jody Watley: Classic or Dud?

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No one's asked! Shocking! The authoress of "Friends," "Looking For a New Love," and the house classic "I'm the One You Need." Where is the Grammy winner these days?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

biggest earrings evah

gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

I was nuts about "Still A Thrill" when it came out.

Bimble, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

she sang on a 4Hero track last year...

henry s, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

Classic for me. She was one of my first pop crushes as a young teen (see also: Cathy Dennis, Debbie Gibson), and her early hits are part of a personal canon of records that got me interested in pop songwriting & production.

I'd love to hear a current R&B diva do something like "Looking For A New Love" or "Most Of All" - not necessarily a cover, but something in that
110 BPM, Jam & Lewis-meets-Paisley Park style...

Tantrum The Cat, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

"Don't You Want Me" was always my fave...doesn't she have a porn-star sister who used to date Kid Rock, or did I just dream that up?...

henry s, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

"Friends" is classic – first time I ever heard Eric B and Rakim.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

her work w/shalamar = deathless classic.

m coleman, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

doesn't she have a porn-star sister who used to date Kid Rock, or did I just dream that up?...

the google seems to think its true - although this would be an amazing thing to just make up

jhøshea, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

biggest earrings evah

This is also the first thing I think of when I hear her name -- "jody watley hoops"

city worker, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

there's also this thread: Classic or Dud " Real Love" by Jody Watley

elan, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Still more goth than you.

With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 4 January 2009 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

"I Love To Love" is a nice performance.

Eric H., Sunday, 4 January 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

I'm gonna post on the gay thread I can't help it

With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 4 January 2009 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

biggest earrings forehead evah

xhuxk, Sunday, 4 January 2009 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

highest cheekbones evah

henry s, Sunday, 4 January 2009 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

Do it again.

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 08:02 (sixteen years ago)

goddamnit come on, she is the shit

Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

i loved/fancied* her in the 80s. i even liked a few songs off the flower album in the 90s where she tried to go neo soul-ish but most of it sent me to sleep. last i heard from her she was trying to do dancey stuff on giant step.

*eg:
http://rickyday.net/blog/Jody%20Watley%20-%20Larger%20Than%20Life.jpg

Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:16 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

"Looking For a New Love" is truly a classic of its era. She pwned Club MTV w/ that shit.

in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

Jody Watley = classic.

Exhibit A: Shalamar went to shit when she left.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:21 (fifteen years ago)

The 80s were a good decade for exceptionally tall black women.

in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:23 (fifteen years ago)

Agree with henry s from way up, "Don't You Want Me" is my jam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=fL7Za5waqls&a=Uq9NfU6uIwc&playnext_from=ML

matt2, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:35 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

jody fucking watley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58tuEuRNmdQ

THONG duck SONG (Pillbox), Monday, 16 January 2012 10:31 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX27KqbpI5A

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 02:40 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://jodywatley.net/2016/09/09/jody-watley-speaks-out-an-open-letter-to-those-it-may-concern/

Jody Watley goes LONG on all kinds of topics, but chiefly about Shalamar and being a black woman in the industry. It's like she's been bottling all this up for 20+ years and just decided to let it all out. Fucking amazing.

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 10 September 2016 03:27 (nine years ago)


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