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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 2, 2021 18:40:56 GMT -5
Welcome to the 8th rankdown of the R&B Divas Series! We open 2021 honoring the legacy of Miss Donna Summer, whose birthday was December 31. The Queen of Disco had a career spanning over 4 decades up until her passing in 2012. She was a pioneer in her genre in the early 1970s, achieving massive international success, collecting hit after hit for 15 years straight and influencing numerous pop stars. SHOOTER is to thank as always for his graphics As always, PM me your submissions by January 24! The songs (rank 1-30):Love to Love You Baby Could It Be Magic Winter Melody I Feel Love I Love You Last Dance MacArthur Park Heaven Knows Hot Stuff Bad Girls Dim All the Lights Walk Away No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) On the Radio The Wanderer Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) The Woman in Me She Works Hard for the Money Unconditional Love There Goes My Baby Dinner with Gershwin This Time I Know It's for Real When Love Cries Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved) Carry On I'll Go with You (Con te partirò) I Got Your Love I’m a Fire Stamp Your Feet Fame (The Game) Spotify playlist:
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Jan 2, 2021 18:45:17 GMT -5
Count me in; definitely sending for this RD
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Post by SHOOTER on Jan 2, 2021 18:56:31 GMT -5
I'm excited for this one!
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Post by Ty on Jan 2, 2021 19:13:25 GMT -5
"Stamp Your Feet" better not be tanked!
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Jan 2, 2021 21:38:19 GMT -5
Now for Miss Donna I'm gonna have to try sneaking in a list!
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Post by Janhova's Witness on Jan 3, 2021 0:07:14 GMT -5
I’m in for the Queen
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Post by bat1990 on Jan 3, 2021 15:57:13 GMT -5
I am INNNNNNNNN
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Post by gonecountry on Jan 3, 2021 21:25:15 GMT -5
So in
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jan 4, 2021 5:22:41 GMT -5
I will do this! This is going to be such a tough one.
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Post by gonecountry on Jan 4, 2021 21:22:33 GMT -5
Just submitted. She really has a great catalogue.
Had she released the Bruce Springsteen-penned "Protection" in America, it would have easily made my Top 5.
Dinner with Gershwin, while not one of my favorite songs, is easily one of her better videos IMO.
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Post by bat1990 on Jan 5, 2021 9:48:54 GMT -5
Wait, why is her cover of Con te partiro not included?
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 5, 2021 19:20:55 GMT -5
Wait, why is her cover of Con te partiro not included? Bocelli is canceled.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jan 6, 2021 2:50:43 GMT -5
Wait, why is her cover of Con te partiro not included? Even though it didn't chart highly on the Hot 100 and stuff, it was a huge club hit in 1999 and is considered a major classic from her recording career. I was surprised to not see it here. I was surprised to not see her Grammy winning "Carry On" and her cover of "Could It Be Magic" but there are so many songs of hers that could have been here.
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Post by bat1990 on Jan 6, 2021 16:20:07 GMT -5
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 There's also this gem plus "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)" that could've rounded this out to 30 songs.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 6, 2021 18:09:51 GMT -5
I've already received some lists, but if there is enough interest to add those songs we can make it 30.
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Post by Juanca on Jan 7, 2021 16:26:18 GMT -5
I adore Donna!! I thought there had been a rank down some years ago but I may have dreamed it... In any case, I’d definitely participate. And all for having a list of 30 songs. She has a strong enough catalogue for expand the list to 30 :) Thinking of mid-size hits like I Will Go With You, Melody of Love, Could it be magic, Romeo, State of independence. Look forward to it!
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 7, 2021 18:14:20 GMT -5
ATTENTION PLEASE!We have decided to exapnd the list of songs to rank to take it to 30. Here's the new list: Love to Love You Baby Could It Be Magic Winter Melody I Feel Love I Love You Last Dance MacArthur Park Heaven Knows Hot Stuff Bad Girls Dim All the Lights Walk Away No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) On the Radio The Wanderer Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) The Woman in Me She Works Hard for the Money Unconditional Love There Goes My Baby Dinner with Gershwin This Time I Know It's for Real When Love Cries Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved) Carry On I'll Go with You (Con te partirò) I Got Your Love I’m a Fire Stamp Your Feet Fame (The Game) Spotify playlist has been updated! I hope gonecountry and ccarter1023 will be so kind to update their lists to include the new songs.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jan 8, 2021 1:46:10 GMT -5
Thank you for adding those songs!
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 10, 2021 17:58:01 GMT -5
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Post by Ty on Jan 10, 2021 21:08:41 GMT -5
Working on this now!
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Post by gonecountry on Jan 11, 2021 12:06:37 GMT -5
Just resubmitted. Surprised how high a couple of those added songs got in my resubmitted list.
Protection still would have been in my Top 5. God, she rocked when given the right material. If you've never heard the fan mix of her and Bruce Springsteen singing protection, it's such a missed hit duet.
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Post by bat1990 on Jan 11, 2021 12:40:05 GMT -5
It's so interesting to me how Geffen Records fucked up her chart success in the 1980s. They did right by other artists, but couldn't figure Donna out. Yet she still had hit potential as evidenced by the massive smash that was She Works Hard For The Money which was released to fulfill her legal obligations to Casablanca Records.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 11, 2021 15:46:10 GMT -5
Wasn't Bruce's "Cover Me" originally intended for Donna? She would've made it a smash.
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Post by gonecountry on Jan 11, 2021 16:29:55 GMT -5
Wasn't Bruce's "Cover Me" originally intended for Donna? She would've made it a smash. yeah, the story is he wrote it for Donna. His producer (?) said it was so good that he had to keep it for himself, but should write something just like "Cover Me" for Donna and that is how they wound up with "Protection"
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jan 11, 2021 23:25:01 GMT -5
Count on me for this. Gotta support my hometown Queen of Disco!
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jan 13, 2021 1:17:34 GMT -5
Sent. This was so difficult to rank because all of these songs are soooo good. I do not dislike or hate any of them. There were just a few I don't come back to as much.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 17, 2021 9:05:08 GMT -5
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jan 17, 2021 19:16:13 GMT -5
Oh...baby...it's been so long...I want you to cum...cum...Donna is sooo nasty OMG. I forgot that she was like this, but I love it. My spirit animal and plus, she is from the best city on Earth. Fun fact: I stan her daughter Amanda's project Johnnyswim - it's just Amanda and her husband, but they are such beautiful vocalists and there are definitely vocal traits of Donna in Amanda. I've seen them live too and...pure heaven.
Anyway, WTF is When Love Cries?! I have never heard this song before. It's like Justify My Love but 100000x better. Wow. That vocal reminds me of Mariah Carey - so feminine and seductive. Con Te Partiro was a discovery for me. Once the chorus dropped, I recognized the melody. What a beautiful song. It reminds me of I'll Fly With You by Gigi D'Agostino, one of my all-time favorite songs.
Also, one of her 80s songs is better than most of her catalog, but I am not going to rank it high because I have a feeling it will be tanked. It's one of her best songs, period. I also expect one of my childhood favorites to be tanked because it's...awkward. Also, I feel like Natasha Bedingfield would do a REALLY good job with it.
It's so weird but now that I am going through these songs again, I feel like I have underrated Donna Summer as a vocalist all these years. I grew up listening to her and got her greatest hits when I was in HS, but...I don't know, I still feel like I've slept on her. I've hearing very strong similarities between her and Mariah, especially her approach to songs like Melody of Love. That said, if her songs didn't make a greatest hits compilation, there's a good chance I would have never heard it (looking at you, Winter Melody!) While she is definitely an essential artist, her essential songs could be narrowed down to about 20, which still says a hell of a lot about her catalog altogether.
Her Top 10 is probably one of the most flawless top 10s in the history of music, so there's that. I am not really tied to any of those songs in particular. They are all amazing in their own way.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jan 17, 2021 23:56:14 GMT -5
Con Te Partiro was a discovery for me. Once the chorus dropped, I recognized the melody. What a beautiful song. It reminds me of I'll Fly With You by Gigi D'Agostino, one of my all-time favorite songs. Donna also did a full recording of the song in Italian.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 18, 2021 11:25:47 GMT -5
Con Te Partiro was a discovery for me. Once the chorus dropped, I recognized the melody. What a beautiful song. It reminds me of I'll Fly With You by Gigi D'Agostino, one of my all-time favorite songs. Donna also did a full recording of the song in Italian. The only version we use since Bocelli's been canceled.
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