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Post by sayne on Oct 23, 2008 21:31:02 GMT -5
I just read that Beyonce is taking a "new" personality named "Sasha Fierce" for her new album in order to be able to use the alias to allow her to go places musically that she could not as Beyonce. Garth Brooks did it a while back. I"m sure there are others, but here's my question. Were the Beatles the first ones to do it with Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? Paul said he thought of the idea of thinking as though they were another band so they could do "non-Beatley" things. Anyone know if anybody in pop/rock did it first?
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Oct 23, 2008 23:02:27 GMT -5
I just read that Beyonce is taking a "new" personality named "Sasha Fierce" for her new album in order to be able to use the alias to allow her to go places musically that she could not as Beyonce. Garth Brooks did it a while back. I"m sure there are others, but here's my question. Were the Beatles the first ones to do it with Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? Paul said he thought of the idea of thinking as though they were another band so they could do "non-Beatley" things. Anyone know if anybody in pop/rock did it first? The Pepper personas don't compare to Brooks and Beyonce. The Beatles were never serious with Pepper. It was all a character device for the album and that was it. Brooks was deadly serious, as I assume Beyonce is.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 23, 2008 23:14:18 GMT -5
LOL! Let's hope that this ill-advised move won't be a career ender for Ms. Knowles if Garth Brooks' experience as Chris Gaines taught us anything. The Beatles' alternate persona came crashing down after WALHFMF as John Lennon once noted with a sigh of relief. Good question though, sayne, that may require a review of the earliest days of rock and roll when perhaps racial discrimination forced black artists to downplay their racial identity for record sales. I am speculating on that but that could have been a cause of musicians assuming a different persona. Beatles may have been first again though.
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Post by sayne on Oct 23, 2008 23:22:24 GMT -5
The Pepper personas don't compare to Brooks and Beyonce. The Beatles were never serious with Pepper. It was all a character device for the album and that was it. Brooks was deadly serious, as I assume Beyonce is. Just because it was a only "device" for an album (and fizzled at that) does not make it incomparable. A device is a device and I still want to know if anyone knows if anyone in pop/rock thought of the device first.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 24, 2008 16:15:29 GMT -5
Beyonce is a piece of ass.
That's all I've got to say.
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Post by alltouttt on Oct 25, 2008 7:34:26 GMT -5
A very large but nonetheless nice piece of ass I might add ...
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Post by scousette on Oct 25, 2008 14:18:47 GMT -5
It's always a treat to read such gentlemanly posts.
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Post by alltouttt on Oct 25, 2008 14:47:04 GMT -5
HÉ! I said it was nice... Not like she tries to hide it either ...
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 28, 2008 5:19:12 GMT -5
Sorry - I'd bury my face right inside it.
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Post by scousette on Oct 28, 2008 13:47:15 GMT -5
You should be so lucky.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 29, 2008 8:43:55 GMT -5
Yep, I should. And then she'd be even luckier!
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