Who are you??

We are not old per se here at Phashion Phish, but who are all these new singers; some with talent and some without! We’ll take Lionel Richie singing all day, before we have to be subjected to all this yelling, smoke machines to cover up the fact you can’t dance, and the tacky clothes. Can we get a choreographed performance, a well dressed performer, who CAN sing, and whose make-up is beat for the gods??? Is that too much to ask? Where is a Janet Jackson choreographed performance, by Tina Landon when you need one???

90’s R& B needs to make a comeback!

Who got up to slow dance by themselves AS SOON as Troop stepped on the stage??? Because, WE DID! By many accounts, 90’s R & B is a golden era, that won’t likely make a return any time soon. But for a moment last night we were reminded what real singers and performers look and sound like. Silk, Troop, and Color Me Badd set a tone in R & B, which set the stage for a good run of the use of sexual innuendo in music, not seen since. Because well, the music now-a-days has no innuendo and definitely cuts to the chase, but that’s another post for another day. We’re just glad to see a performance that we could sing along with, because we knew all the words!

Nicki Minaj is our hero!

Say what you want, but there was a little bit of truth to what Miss Minaj said during her acceptance speech. No shade indeed, but on the surface we think Hip-Hop heads are fed up with the gimmicks and lack of authenticity, as she put it. And well, will Jay Z one day be touting his historical relevance to Hip-Hop, the way Little Richard does with Rock n’ Roll, because the people who created the genre will be so far removed from it that they won’t matter. We don’t want to live in a world where Tupac, Biggie, and Jay Z are not considered the best. NO! NO! NO! And for all the people who said Nicki’s a hater? Tuuuhh! Hip-Hop is all about the braggadocio and if you don’t know that much about the genre, you are not allowed to comment. No one wants to hear what you have to say. With all this kumbaya, hand holding, and friendliness as of late, people have forgotten that one of the cornerstones of Hip-Hop is the beef! They have made for some great songs; just ask Kool Moe Dee and LL Cool J.

We still LOVE Bey and Jay!

So, they weren’t REALLY there! We’ll take a taped performance from the Queen and her accompanying King, than some of that mess we had to endure last night. And for all the people that won’t be able to attend the On the Run Tour, a look inside one of the most highly anticipated tours of the summer, is not a bad thing. Besides, it gave us another chance to check out Beyonce’s moves on that chair during “Partition”. Do they sell that chair somewhere? We’re asking for a friend.

Myrlie Evers and Phylicia Rashad are THE BOMB!

These two titans, better yet icons of all that is AWESOME were a refreshing break from all the shucking and jiving of the night. But a little part of us wished they would have done some “hood shaming”. As Myrlie Evers mentioned there was a time when a black person came on TV and the screen would go black, but not only that, other people would SING THEIR SONGS!! There are actual covers of quartets busting out Little Richard's, “Tutti Frutti”, because they wouldn’t play his version on the radio! Yes, black musicians have come a long way, but considering what they came from; you would think they’d fall back from all the tomfoolery, gyrating, ignorant lyrics, and other mess they promote to the masses and do something crazy, like use their influence for good. For every “These Hoes Ain’t Loyal”, an updated version of “Self-Destruction” wouldn’t hurt.