Oh Brother, Where art thou 'cause we want to give you a great big hug!!!!!

[Botafogo]

It was you: she is bright, educated, talented and very eloquent at most times. What you saw was a normal reaction in a (barely!) 20 year old girl who had just gotten MASSIVE vindication after she fought tooth and nail against a music business that wanted to turn her into just another disposable Destiny's Child clone instead of letting her prove she may be the Stevie Wonder of our era. Her complete re-arrangement of her original R&B (with Hip Hop flourishes) hit "Fallin" into a tango with strings is a small sliver of this future superstar's abilities. Was Sally Field's heartfelt plea of "You like me, you really like me" a sign of a small intelect?

Ditto (on the fight the power vibe) for Mary K Blige who THREW DOWN 'Retha style and had the whole house at my crib screaming and crying.

But the real story has got to be the coronation of Hillbilly Chic (dig those Soggy Mountain Boys in their New York black)and the total ignoring of such bogus "Country" hacks as Garth Brooks and his ilk. Bill Monroe and Hank Williams surely drank a toast from Heaven and Hell respectively...

Funky Roberto, still groovin'...slight return...


[This message has been edited by Botafogo (edited 02-28-2002).]