Comments on: Anita Baker Returns

By: Joe McZakka

Joe McZakka — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:36:35 +0000

I like that thing about Regina Belle.
Sure, she is one of the most unique vocalists in the world. I like her consistency, her fantastic , soulful phrasing which put her much above the pack. I like her because she is so simple and understated; and most of all she always takes risks like on her latest release “Lazy Afternoon”. This album can be a little difficult at the first listen,but then, after a while, her music grows on you and haunts you.
She is the perfect match for Anita(I have to tell that I was not crazy about ‘My Everything’, too tight and a bland concept for her project), still I like it.
Yes, Anita, Regina and Sade…I love them with all my art…theirs is true artistry.

By: Mary Griffith

Mary Griffith — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:05:33 +0000

I am glad to see Anita back. I’m glad that she can take her children along on tour and work on a limited schedule. I pray that her wonderful gift will always make room for live and love too. Enjoyed the post. I’ll be back.

By: joy

joy — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:36:36 +0000

loved this. i’m unfortunately not familiar with her music, but plan to be more so by the end of this week! =)

By: firebird

firebird — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:49:22 +0000

Kudos for anita baker she put family before cereer and now is back now if only those spineless jellyfish in hollywood would put patriotism ahaead of their own poitical ideas and their socialist agenda

By: Richard Cook

Richard Cook — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:58:45 +0000

That’s because I deleted the offensive post, just as I did this one. – Admin

By: Jasmin

Jasmin — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:23:43 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s not going away any time soon.

By: Raymond C. Coleman

Raymond C. Coleman — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:04:42 +0000

AMEN Jasmin and Steven Kelso!

On point for sure. If only hip-hop would die, the economic and social conditions of black american and the country as a whole would increase a thousand fold.

By: Jasmin

Jasmin — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:45:34 +0000

I’m so sick of the blonde hair weave wearing (Beyonce, Ashanti, Ciara) booty shaking, talentless, overexposed (in every possible way) hip-hop “divas” of today.
I’ll take Anita Baker, Sade and Regina Belle over these new pop tarts any day (and I’m 24! ).

By: avery

avery — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 02:56:05 +0000

Steven, I hafta strongly disagree with you on the idea that hip-hop has no soul. Maybe not the hip-hop you know about, but you can’t judge an entire genre on one sub-genre, even if it’s the most prevalent. Put it like this: Anita and Aretha are both R & B singers, and are both soulful. They sound nothing alike. There’s no judgement I could make about Anita’s singing that would suffice for Aretha, even though I buy them in the same section at the record store.

Having said that, if you don’t like hip-hop, you don’t like it. And that’s fine. My favorite Parker on the saxophone is Maceo. I don’t like that dissonant jazz. But it would be entirely inaccurate of me to try to come off like all jazz is one way because of Bird or Trane.

But this is La Shawn’s spot. I’ll take this up some more down the block at Stereo. Hope to see you there.

By: Steven J. Kelso Sr.

Steven J. Kelso Sr. — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 01:41:13 +0000

Hip-Hop killed soul!!! There is absolutley NO redeeming value to Hip-Hop music or the culture that it spawned. A 100 hip-hoppers couldn’t raise up enough talent to touch the bottom of Anita’s shoes!

By: Miss O'Hara

Miss O'Hara — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 00:27:06 +0000

Oh, LaShawn, you have no idea how happy we Michiganders are to have Anita back, too! Singing, that is. She has, of course, been around town the entire time. But she is a sparkling gift to jazz, and I was SO excited when her new album came out. SHE is an example of the true talent that has come out of Detroit for ages. (Well…I am a cheerleader for Detroit…)

By: Phisch

Phisch — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 22:00:53 +0000

On SAHMs…from one: our kids make it easy to stay home. I say it’s much more fun than work! I was never one for the career track though.

By: Kiki B.

Kiki B. — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:42:25 +0000

That could be you in the picture, LaShawn. It looks like you.

By: red

red — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:18:27 +0000

I have always loved Anita Baker – there’s something so soothing, so wonderful about her voice – I had no idea what was up with her, and why she had “disappeared” – so thank you, La Shawn for letting me know – and also letting me know she is back! I’m very glad. A class act, that dame.

By: Raymond C. Coleman

Raymond C. Coleman — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:04:55 +0000

Regina Belle! Now THAT sistuh can sang! Love her. I will be purchasing Anita too. Someone lifted all but one of her other CDs I owned.