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Post by bat1990 on May 11, 2015 21:03:19 GMT -5
"I'll Cry Later" is HAWT in HQ!!!!! I may buy it from iTunes!
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Post by divasummer on May 12, 2015 16:16:40 GMT -5
I kind of like these songs.
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Post by Wave. on May 13, 2015 18:22:28 GMT -5
That's so crazy..Molly is from Pittsburgh!!
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Post by George on Dec 22, 2015 14:02:41 GMT -5
En Vogue holding on despite dramaR&B group En Vogue featuring(Left to right): Terry Ellis, Cindy Braggs and Rhona. (DAndre Michael) By Allison Stewart/Chicago Tribune En Vogue like the Supremes, for good and bad En Vogue met in the '80s, fronted the pack of superstar R&B girl groups in the '90s (thanks to a string of crossover hits like "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" and "Free Your Mind") and fell apart in spectacular fashion before the turn of the century. In the years since, there have been public feuds, a splashy televised reunion, multiple lawsuits, unfinished albums, rotating members and a Lifetime original TV movie. Original members Dawn Robinson and Maxine Jones left and returned several times each, and are currently not involved with the group. Jones briefly fronted a rival concern, En Vogue to the Max, and recently called remaining original members Terry Ellis and Cindy Herron "evil skanks." In a phone interview in advance of En Vogue's Saturday appearance at Northalsted Market Days, Ellis talked about life in En Vogue and reminisced about the contentious 1993 tour with Luther Vandross, an event so staggering in its awfulness, it has passed into R&B legend. Edited excerpts from that conversation follow: On whether years of infighting and lawsuits have tempered her memories of the group's heyday.I can look back (on good memories), and I do that quite often. I can't speak for everybody else, but that's how it was, and that's how it is for me. All of that, that happened in the past, is why I'm still able to continue. We're working consistently, and we haven't missed a beat as far as I'm concerned. On their 2008 reunion at the BET Awards.Alicia Keys wanted to perform (En Vogue hit) "Hold On" with the original members, and Dawn came back to the group. Actually, Dawn had come back a little before that. Now, it's myself, Cindy and a young lady named Rhona Bennett, who has been performing with us for some time. For me, I always have to go back to what we're doing and how I'm feeling. The glass is always half full for me. As long as I'm still walking onstage and performing songs, and I'm creating great music, it always feels right for me. Always. On life inside the group during its peak.It's funny to say this, because people wouldn't think it, but we didn't fight. Honestly, I can say we laughed 95 percent of the time. Five percent, we might have been in disagreement with each other, but we never fought. Ever. On what really happened on tour with Luther Vandross.The stage was situated close to the dressing room doors, and our hallway was the way to get to the stage. We were on the same hallway (as Vandross), and he told us if we walked down that hallway, he was going to call the police. Cindy was six months pregnant. We were told to get in a car and drive to the other side of the stadium to get to the stage, and it made no sense. We were like, "Well, I guess we're going to jail tonight." When the police got there, they saw how ridiculous it was, and they escorted us to the stage. Within all the drama, we still loved Luther. We would still stand at the side of the stage every night and watch him perform. We ended up leaving the tour early. There were too many stipulations: We couldn't wear certain colors, we had to eat at a certain place, we couldn't eat with everybody else; too many petty things. We thought, let's relieve him of any ill feelings toward us, and we don't want to develop any. We still loved him. On whether the original lineup might one day reunite.Cindy and I say, "Never say never." But I will tell you that the lineup we have right now, this is what it is until something changes, and we're happy and satisfied with where we are. The main focus for us is creating great music and doing what we love to do. Until something else changes, this is what it is, and we're good with it. On her departed group mates.Cindy and I love Max and Dawn; that will never change. We started this business with those girls, we co-created this with our producers. It took a village. It is what it is because of them, and we love them no matter what. I mean that. Yeah, they (remarks) were mean. They both (made them), but it's OK, because whatever they're feeling, that's their truth, and I can't argue with that. But I can tell you that no matter what, we still love them. They have to work that out for themselves.
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Post by Zinc. on Dec 30, 2015 12:47:48 GMT -5
It's nice to see Terry being mature about the whole situation. I wish they stop feuding with one another and call it a truce.
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Post by Zinc. on Apr 13, 2016 14:51:20 GMT -5
https%3A//soundcloud.com/envoguemusic/deja-vu-mp3
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Post by George on Apr 14, 2016 15:23:20 GMT -5
New promotional photos:
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Post by Zinc. on Apr 14, 2016 20:05:32 GMT -5
They look nice.
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Post by George on Aug 12, 2016 17:15:51 GMT -5
En Vogue: ’90s ExplosionBy Shane Lueck August 5, 2016 Categories: Clubs & Music, Featured - Home Page, Our Scene Beauty, class, transcendence…the award-winning, multi-platinum female group, En Vogue, embodies the very definition of each word. After countless accolades, 20 million albums sold, and multiple Grammy nominations, the ultimate girl group of the ’90s has now evolved into legendary R&B icons affectionately known as the “Real Funky Divas.” Today, En Vogue is redefining the idea of beauty, music, and style with original members, Cindy Heron-Braggs, Terry Ellis, and long-standing member Rhona Bennett. Taking the stage at Mystic Lake with Naughty by Nature and Tone Loc with a show appropriately called ’90s Explosion, Terry Ellis says fans are going to get exactly what they expect. “They’re going to get the old sound. Definitely, we haven’t missed a beat with that,” she says. “We will be doing all of our hits. Physically you will see a different lineup, but definitely, the music, it lives on and we’ll be there giving it to them.” With ’90s musical acts like Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and NSYNC performing together in recent years, there is a resurgence of music from that era to meet fan demand. Ellis believes it’s a bit of nostalgia, saying “I think the industry is missing that music from the ’90s, the true, classic R&B music that we all love so much and I think people are just ready for that again.” People hoping for that sound again will not be disappointed in En Vogue. The group released “Deja Vu,” the first single from their new album and the first new music from the songstresses in five years. Musically, “Deja Vu” evokes memories and pays homage to the sounds of 1960s R&B made famous by groups like The Supremes, with the visceral and precise harmonies that are synonymous with En Vogue. Imagery for the song recreates images that capture the timeless and stunning beauty of old Hollywood. “We get in the studio and with such a vast difference in our musical backgrounds, it just sort of comes together and creates this thing that lives, breathes through our music,” Ellis says. “We usually just let the music dictate where we are and what the song is going to be and what we’re going to write about.” As a thank you to their fans for patiently awaiting new music, the group is sharing the new single from their forthcoming album, Electric Café, that can be streamed via SoundCloud, Pandora, and Spotify. Originally slated for an August release, Ellis says the group is still working and hopes to release the album before the year is out.
“We’re working on the last couple of songs, so we’re almost done,” she says. “We don’t know where those are going to take us yet, but really it is sort of a hodge-podge of different sounds and influences and melodies and vibes and feelings. So it’s like a little gumbo mix. You have some blues, some R&B, a little bit of EDM influence, a little bit of world music influence.”For a group that has never disbanded and been performing and creating music for 25 years, En Vogue continuously shows their support for the GLBT community. In fact, Ellis cites Pride performances as her favorite because of the connection with the crowd. “When I tell you those gigs are the most festive and most celebratory, we feel so good and so happy,” she beams. “We party so hard, I can’t even tell you. And I think it’s because we are all there celebrating together. Celebrating being free, celebrating owning who we are. And I say ‘we’ because as a black woman, I’ve encountered prejudice, which is why we wrote the song ‘Free Your Mind.’ So we as black women, we understand what it feels like to be segregated and to experience prejudice and experience people not appreciating you or honoring who you are. So that’s why I say ‘we,’ so we are all celebrating together that freedom. And that’s what we stand for. For everybody. No judgement.” That stand-out single, “Free Your Mind,” has become an anthem, both within the GLBT community and beyond, and Ellis couldn’t be more proud of that fact. “I feel like that, and even more so now given everything that’s going on in the world today,” she shares. “The message is even more prevalent based on what we’re seeing on the news and what the conversations are and just all the tragedy going on all over the world. The message is very, very powerful.”
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Post by George on Aug 17, 2016 17:30:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 9:42:50 GMT -5
I really like them. Hope the album will come out as planned.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 6:53:25 GMT -5
I really wish the rest of the original members would return to the group.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 7:03:26 GMT -5
that would be great but if it didn't happen so far ... no way it will
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 7:17:02 GMT -5
that would be great but if it didn't happen so far ... no way it will That stinks.
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Post by bat1990 on Aug 23, 2016 7:32:52 GMT -5
Dawn is crazy as fuq, so there's no way she's come back without demanding unreasonable stuff. She thinks she's deserving of Beyoncé-level cheques when her vocals haven't been on a hit since Lucy Pearl in the 90s.
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Post by SHOOTER on Aug 23, 2016 12:42:16 GMT -5
Between Dawn's delusional demands and Cindy/Terry blocking Max from the rights to EV's name, I highly doubt a reunion will occur. I'm just glad I got to experience the original four live in this lifetime.
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Post by George on Aug 23, 2016 13:22:41 GMT -5
Between Dawn's delusional demands and Cindy/Terry blocking Max from the rights to EV's name, I highly doubt a reunion will occur. I'm just glad I got to experience the original four live in this lifetime. Me too. I'm debating whether to see them tonight in San Diego, as it'll be my third time (and my second time with this trio lineup). Hope their new album is done well. Glad they finally got a great stylist/photographer for this era.
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Post by Jay D83 on Aug 23, 2016 19:25:18 GMT -5
Maybe they need to call Amanda Cole to come back. I just need 4 girls in En Vogue.
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Post by George on Aug 24, 2016 2:52:34 GMT -5
Two recent interviews:
They mentioned they wrote a lot on the new album, it's produced by Thomas McElroy & Denzil Foster, it'll be a mixture of classic En Vogue harmonies with some EDM influences, and that they had already completed the album but went back to add more songs.
Also, their "My Lovin"/"Giving Him Something He Can Feel" dresses will be inducted into the Smithsonian in September. I wonder if Dawn and Maxine were invited.
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Post by George on Aug 24, 2016 3:30:14 GMT -5
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Post by Nick on Aug 27, 2016 19:53:30 GMT -5
Classic where all 4 shine.
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Post by Nick on Oct 16, 2016 18:25:24 GMT -5
New pic on Twitter:
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Post by George on Dec 5, 2016 15:40:35 GMT -5
Performing tonight on the revived Showtime at the Apollo series on FOX:
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Post by Zinc. on Dec 5, 2016 16:13:40 GMT -5
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Post by B****BetterGetNOSL333P on Dec 5, 2016 18:25:27 GMT -5
TBH, the only person walking on the streets and I can recognize is Max. I've been holding on to my hope for Max to comeback in the group.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2016 8:23:15 GMT -5
Last couple of evenings I've been listening to En Vogue's Soul Flower album
and it is great !!! I really like the whole album
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Post by Nick on Dec 13, 2016 20:45:37 GMT -5
This was from last week's Apollo special. Cindy and Terry were rocking those weaves. Let's not forget these chicks are in their 50's. Wow.
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Post by bat1990 on Dec 14, 2016 14:04:41 GMT -5
#MelaninFountainOfYouth
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Post by josh on Jan 28, 2017 1:45:30 GMT -5
If Dawn hadn't left the group, would 'Whatever' have become a huge hit like 'Don't Let Go?' Or was it just too far out for radio in 1997 no matter who was in the line up?
IMO, it still sounds great today.
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Post by stunnedout on Jan 29, 2017 19:17:43 GMT -5
"Whatever" went Gold and make it to #16 on the Hot 100 and #8 on R&B. I think it did fine and it fit what was happening a radio at that time. I definitely think Dawns vocal styling gave any song she did a more youthful appeal than the other ladies, it could've possibly helped and made it a top 10 on the Hot 100, but the ladies were older and took too long between albums.
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