Sometimes his British accent peeked through in the first season, but then it got soooo good. So soothing. I love it.

Not that much of a stretch. Big swaths of the southern US were settled by Britons and like most colonists their accent 'froze' somewhat more than its source's, or evolved in one direction while the accent back in the Empire evolved in another. (No links/references because I'm on deadline. Sorry.)

Are you kidding me?

I read a book about the history of Motown and one of my favorite takeaways from it was how Diana Ross fought for that role of Dorothy and Berry Gordy saying, "She ain't nobody's damn Dorothy." She was horrible in that part, too old and too angsty.

I didn't know that bit about Stephanie Mills. I love The Wiz *except* for Diana as Dorothy. I've always found her performance to be pretty annoying. Whenever I watch it I fast forward through her solo parts.

I can't even muster an opinion of the anything that happened last night. Like, maybe if the awards actually indicated something about an artist who has one, I would totally find it relevant. But instead I have this weird little voice that pops up mid-thought squealing "WHO CAREEESSSSS!!!!" The voice kinda sounds like…

Oh I'm an old too. :) Graduated high school in the mid 90s so around that time or shortly after I remember all the stuff started coming about Whitney.

There are so many underrated black female artists. Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Jazmine Sullivan, Ledisi, Elle Varner...I could go on forever.

I think the big takeaway from this is. It's ultimately our fault. Maybe if we took Beyonce off and just had her in the right amount of doses, we would be happier. Beyonce is not all things, she is only some of the things and that is ok. There are other black women in the world besides beyonce who also sing. And we…

Interesting observation. Although I think Whitney Houston it was 90s. She got really overexposed after The Bodyguard.

According to John Legend, Beyoncé approached them to perform—aka Beyoncé suggested that Beyoncé sing the song—which is a proposition you can't turn down. "She wanted to do an intro to our performance and introduce us," says Legend. "You don't really say no to Beyoncé if she asks to perform with you."

I have these two friends in the same industry as me, and both are successful on a national/international level.

When we're out in public with their peers, one of them makes sure to network and name-drop, and has literally climbed across me and interrupted conversations to make sure she establishes a personal…

D'angelo developed issues about his body after the objectification he experienced as a result of the "Untitled" video. It's what kept his confidence low and this album so long to release. His second album, Voodoo, was critically acclaimed with some comparing his depth and soulfulness to Marvin Gaye. He was poised to…

You have to direct her to the website for current and former NLF and NBA cheerleaders who are scientists. I tried to link it but I'm getting an error message. I'd like to think it's because so many people are visiting their website that it crashed. It's probably because I'm surfing the net in China.

I hope she keeps that interest! She's lucky to have a mom like you.

Jumping on the bandwagon to say I worked with a couple of female computer science engineers, one of whom was a former cheerleader and another of whom was a salsa dancer. They were both regarded as among the smartest people in our company and everyone thought it was awesome that they had these extracurricular interests…

I was in advanced math (2 years ahead and in AP) with a lot of my female friends. We all continued to do well, but not a single one of us went into an even math-tangental field. I know from at least my experience, part of it was influenced by, "oh, you're good at math, but not *really* good." Also, you know, we want…

Women, Nationwide is NOT on your side.

Math teachers who are scared of girls. I'm not joking, btw. The math teachers are heavily nerdy guys, and girls, to them, still represent trouble and rejection and confusion. They deal much more easily with other nerdy boys, and so the teachers sort of "stop seeing" the girls in the class. I've been that girl. You can…