Pure Legend

I was pretty into the whole greatest hits collection this month.
Just got my hand on some of the greatest artist that I’ve admire for ages and no chance to really get my hand on their CD.
The one that I’m really into right now is Bonnie Raitt, Tim McGraw, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer and the true survivor of the music industry. Ms Madonna.

I’ve only known Bonnie Raitt after she is half retired and when I’m started to get into the whole music thing. And the first time I saw Ms Bonnie perform in the Grammy’s with some other guest performers. The collaboration is simply perfect. And throughout the years and decades past whenever once a year or so the performance is topped with another even better duet or collaboration. I’m just amaze and really admire this woman on the guitar. She is just the legend and the best musician out there. To have seen all her works on songs that’s not even hers. So I decided to get her songs and see what a great musician she is before I learned of her. And the experience is somewhat ecstatic. Because in a greatest hits collection you’ll get the best of every year the person is in the business and you get the really young version of some of the pretty well-known songs and you go like, OH that’s how she started and now.... it’s a really big gap sometimes. Still it remains a great experience to see how such legend came to be.

Mr. Tim McGraw, came along when I was really into another legend, Garth Brooks. I can’t talk about Tim without mentioning Garth. At the time I thought they are rivalry. As I learn later there’s no such thing in an life experience that’s gonna have such Drama that could last for a long time. and even if there’s one ever. 2 of the greatest country singer in the world today surprisingly, I only have their wives CD on my collection all this while. HAHA! (Garth has too many great songs to begin with so I give up on getting one and decided I’ll get the 5 disc collection when I have the chance. And for Tim now only I got my hand on a released collection.) I’m never a big fan of hits collection, I’m more of an album and evolution interested guy. Anyway, Tim, Oh! How we talk about Tim. The Sexiest Man Alive? The Singer Turn Actor Turn Singer that really turns head? In reality, in the midst of my confusion in the old days. I’ve listened to more of Tim’s songs than Garth. Because by the time I really sink my teeth into the who art, Garth is already a legend and before I really get on him, he’s already moving on to leaving the scene. Yet Tim just start to make it and I was on the same plain with him then. So I was very very into this person who have that great country sound and embrace and iconize the whole country music stream for me. So he is the one, my first country male singer. (Sorry ZZ Top and Brooks and Dunn, you guys are still my first country group.)

On the side note strangely enough my first country female singer isn’t even one, Bette Midler. Well, who can ever resist the ultimate muse of the industry. Not because she’s into it all, not because she’s in movie more than music. My heart is taken then and there the first day I heard Bette Midler and that personality. Her voice is majestic and yet her humor and demeanour is totally down to earth and very approachable, even for a young kids living on the other side of the earth. She is the wind beneath my wings.

Anyway, talk about goddess and royalty, who could ever compare to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. Each growl, each notes, each shout, each sweet rendition is so full of soul that you simply lifted up to the sky. And with every sound of her voice, she does demands respect and you’d not dare to defies it. It is simply a joy and exciting experience to see such legend working the natural God given cords. Every sound that comes out of the Queen’s voice are just Angel trumpet sounding on top of Mount of Olympus.

The first disco sound I’ve ever heard even before I got my own CD is this person’s. Back when I was just 5 and my dad still have a cassette stereo and the huge Cassette player in our old car. My dad use to let us dance to the songs in the house. Donna Summer, the first ever dancing Queen, My ultimate Disco Diva, my first music that got my feet moving to a real beat. Miss Donna Summer, I don’t care whatever other people said. Even if it meant just one songs, you are my first ever Goddess that have guide me the way to move my feet with my heart. I salute you.

Well, Madonna. The one person that can actually get my mom talking about something remotely related to music and the entertainment industry. HAHA! Since the start of Material girl, my mom was like this is a plague. HAHA! Funny enough back then when fashion is about shoulder pad and totally big, huge design and only this glamorous is on the runway and never translate to the street but the high shoulder. It’s really funny to see woman then to imitate her yet fear that people will know that they are. Anyway, it’s been a great experience to go through life seeing one person going for rag to riches to rag and back into riches and then something else. Something that’s totally out of any category and became her own. She is the ultimate survivor and most notorious trendsetter the world ever has and most likely will ever see. She is the first ever girl power.