Sharon, I’m so sorry for your loss.

I’m praying to my petty gods that JT’s falsetto will go astray after — in what can only be described as pure hubris — he decided to perform live without a backing track. In other words, JT will sound like the guy who sang bass and never soloed in N-Sync. Amen.

Bingo.

Bingo.

UTILIZING CAPS BECAUSE EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE THEIR BALLS AND GO HOME AFTER THIS COMMENT:

Please don’t consider buying NBC. You know what happens to GOOD black men they consider it. /s

Let’s get there first, Todd.

“I don’t trust us either. Hell, I ain’t trust Obama until I heard Michelle vouch for him. I knew Obama was good people because I knew Michelle wasn’t about to marry a scrub.”

I’m sad every time I have to explain this to a brother in my life. I literally have to be like, “you know how you hate when white people do XYZ to you? Yeah, that’s how we women feel about ABC.” Only then do they get it — sometimes. :-(

*sigh* Once more...

Those ‘86 effects looked like ‘86 effects. They were amazimg at the time.

Kee wasn’t Asian?! I just assumed she was mixed.

...but what about his Afro?!

Betty, I think there’s a reason Phoebe went quiet about those results! She found some of us in that lineage!

Excuse me?! Keith Jarret ain’t black?!?!

No. Wham always just sounded like some soulful white boys.

Excuse me?! Phoebe Snow ain’t Black?!?!?

I love the Joe Cocker stories in “20 Feet from Stardom.” Merry Clayton talks about some weird white boy who was standing in the front row of a Ray Charles show imitating his moves. It was a young Joe Cocker practicing for his invitation to the musical cookout. He stayed emulating black folks.

*dead*

You right. *twerk*