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ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:
What I’m listening to today: "Diana Ross - Fool For Your Love."
It’s Diana Ross. Lead singer of The Supremes, a Motown band that broke through to the mainstream and paved the way for countless other Black musicians to do the same. Extraordinarily successful solo artist, for decades. An absolute icon.
Guessing you can name several songs of hers, from either or both of her solo career or her time in The Supremes, but you’ve probably never heard her like this before. This is "Fool For Your Love," off her 1982 "Silk Electric" album. This is a very eclectic album, much more than you might expect, and is a great showcase of her range. It touches on pop-R&B, as you might expect, but also doo-wop ("So Close"), ambient/experimental ("Turn Me Over," the last song on the A-side, which prompts the listener to flip the record), disco ("Who"), reggae ("I Am Me"), and this song, which is hard rock bordering on heavy metal. It’s so unexpected, and it rocks super hard.