Celebrity, Entertainment, Music
17 May 2012

Someone has left my cake out in the rain, because Donna Summer is no longer with us. She worked hard for that money! So hard for it, honey. Sorry – I’m typing these as fast as I can before everyone else gets as cheesy. Donna passed away at age 63 in Florida while battling cancer.
Summers (along with her famous producer Giorgio Moroder) crafted some of the most influential music of the 1970s. Momma was a PIONEER when it came to dance music and R&B. I am not a Rolling Stone music critic, so I can not describe her range or anything boring like that. I can tell you that I am not old enough to have been around when she was dropping “Bad Girls”, “Hot Stuff”, “I Feel Love” and the like, but I know these are mainstays for a reason. Oh shit – “Last Dance”!
Her accomplishments (via Wikipedia) include being “a five-time Grammy Award winner. Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a thirteen-month period.” DAMN!
Obviously, dance music and gays in the 70s were strongly identified with each other, so Donna was queen. Until she took some guff in the 80s when some stories dropped that quoted her saying some negative things about gays in relation to AIDS. Which was ridic because that’s about 3/4 of her damn audience! Donna later issued an apology via ACT UP saying it was a “terrible misunderstanding”. Make of that what you will. Everybody makes mistakes. She paid, because you didn’t see her on the charts much after that. However – she did sue The New York Times successfully for slander and donated to a bunch of AIDS charities so make of it what you will!
Nevertheless, she was one of the greats and it is with great sadness that we say goodbye to her.
Check out some of Donna’s songs and videos after the break. If you were into her, let us know what your favorite Donna Summer song is!
- J. Harvey
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