Transvestigation: Sandra Bullock and Trannywood - Really?
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Ah, I see what you mean. I ran a reverse image search on the second one and found this quote from her about drag queens:
From what I can tell, she didn't start using drag queen-inspired fashion or openly praising the LGBT movement until she was older. I saw some online comments from people saying she might have started doing it in order to pander to the Powers that Be when she was making her comeback post-Lyme disease (which had put her out of commission, career-wise, for 15 years).
In 2018, she made a comment in a Guardian interview that if she was American rather than Canadian, she would have voted for Trump:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/22/shania-twain-unexpected-return-freak-illness-country-pop-star
But after she received backlash for the comment, she backtracked and apologized.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/23/shania-twain-sorry-for-saying-she-would-have-voted-for-trump
One interesting thing I noticed in that second article is that she was apparently sexually abused by her stepfather when she was growing up.
By the way, if you're interested in some fairly recent country music that's authentic and classic, I'd recommend checking out the Millwinders (a "rockabilly" band that played 1950-1960s-style rock and roll, country, and rhythm and blues music - they worked in a variety of styles). Sadly, the band split up around 2017 or 2018, but they have two great albums on Bandcamp.
Here's the music video for one of their country songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lcuCGASaoo
Here's the Bandcamp page (which includes the ability to listen to the track for free) of my favorite country song by them:
https://millwinders.bandcamp.com/track/in-time-she-will
And here's the lead singer on most of their songs, Sarah Butler, performing a Patsy Cline cover with another band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27R7HI4S54M
Here's another example of real country music from recent years from a band called The Delorean Sisters (the band are somewhat modern-looking, but their musical style is classic):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXCLV0G_j_o
That would make sense, about making a deal. I saw the abuse bit, too.
Will take a look at the others. Check this guy out. Not really a “country” singer per se, but he has some country styled songs as a Russian living in the NE US.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DhXpK1d8Usg&list=PL1NMQ1lHuiRU4mN8wtiNr5lZqlSV2H5aW&index=11&pp=iAQB8AUB
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cOFSk-AdRrI
If you like 1950s-1960s rock and roll or rockabilly, I'd especially recommend checking out all of the Millwinders' songs on Bandcamp (they're all available to sample for free). Several are country, some are rock and roll, etc. They used a variety of styles, but all classic ones.
He's good, although I like the second song a lot less than the first. The sound of that first song (with the harmonies) reminds me a bit of the Seekers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sKCSoYx9iI
Wow, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an audience listening to a performance like that at any concert in my lifetime (The Seekers). A completely different vibe, carriage, and appearance to anything I can recall having seen. It’s as if everyone was my grandfather’s father.
That Patsy Cline comment got me thinking, and I checked, and sure enough…
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Buddy Holly:
Jay then died in 2013 at age 54.
Running label traces through the people involved, both crashes had tied to Starday Records. Big Bopper seems to have had his holdings transferred to C3, which was founded by Moe “Horowitz” Howard of the Three Stooges. Patsy Cline was with Decca. Just wondering if maybe someone wasn’t playing ball with the right ownership in both these crashes…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_Dance_Party_Tour_Poster.jpg
As someone noted a few days ago, 13 and 17 are just common numbers so that clearly doesn’t prove anything. Odd, though. Business ownership and management indications and disputes would certainly add to the picture, though.
It's also sort of uncanny to watch them here (in the early years of their career, performing the song that was their first big hit):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZf41UudAbI
...and then here (in their 2013 farewell tour):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrLTe1_9zso
It's the same people, but nearly a half-century apart in time, and it's possible to watch and listen to them in one period of their lives right after the other in the span of a few minutes. And one of them (Judith Durham - no relation to John Durham) is dead now, as of two years ago.
I've been reading a science fiction story recently that made an interesting point that recordings (records, movies, etc) of people from years ago are sort of like ghosts. They live on long past the physical life of the actual person. We take it all for granted these days, but the phonograph wasn't invented until 137 years ago. Before that, if you didn't hear someone's voice live and in person, you never heard it at all.
I'm inclined to believe that those crashes were probably accidental. It would have been extremely hard to plan a crash for assassination purposes, since in each case, the musicians who wound up dead made a quick last-minute decision to fly rather than ride in a car or bus. As that bit about Patsy Cline that you quoted notes, she could have driven with her husband but decided to fly instead. It would have been really hard to make arrangements to crash the plane in order to kill her on such short notice.
It was a similar situation on "the day the music died." No one knew in advance which musicians would be on the plane, since there wasn't room for all of them and they had to decide which ones would fly and which ones would go on the bus. Two of them even flipped a coin to decide which one of them would go on the plane. The way the whole thing went down would have been extremely difficult to plan, especially for the purposes of taking out any particular person.
Ricky Nelson was a big star in his day. He started out on his parents' television show "Ozzie and Harriet" in the 1950s, and became an actor and singer. He was one of the biggest "teenage heartthrob" singers, probably second only to Elvis Presley. He was in various movies, including the John Wayne classic "Rio Bravo".
The crash that he died in was a rather weird one, apparently caused by a faulty heater that caused a fire in the cabin, which in turn caused the passengers to run to the front of the plane to flee the fire. It's somewhat more suspicious than the other two crashes, since there could have been time to plan a sabotage of the heater (because the flight was much less "spur of the moment" than the other two doomed flights), and both pilots survived and had conflicting stories of what happened. There's no real "smoking gun" to prove that it was intentional, though.
When it comes to crashes that I would be downright surprised if they weren't deliberate assassinations, the JFK, Jr. crash is the first one that comes to mind.