La Principessa

Aquarius Sun, Virgo Moon, Gemini Rising

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Call it ‘Dopamine Deficiency Disorder’ and see how seriously they take it

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men’s tits

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Targeted audience

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At the 1998 Grammy Awards, Pavarotti was too ill to sing Nessun Dorma. Aretha Franklin filled in on 20 minutes notice.  This is the result.

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Not only was the performance done on 20 minutes notice, she had no rehearsal and simply heard Pavarotti’s rehearsal once on a goddamn tape player and just listened, nodded and said she could do it. the most famous opera song in the world, on one of the biggest nights for music in the world, no rehearsal, and she just went out and did it.

that’s talent

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WHERE IS THE REST I NEED IT.

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More backstory: she’d performed Nessun Dorma at another event two days before, but got asked to take Pavarotti’s slot and basically instantly accepted— WHICH HAPPENED AFTER THE SHOW HAD ALREADY STARTED. (The producer didn’t hear he wasn’t coming until about 1:50 before he was supposed to be onstage.) She got a recording of Pavarotti practicing, and got to sit with his conductor and rehearse until it was time for her performance (the originally scheduled one) and for a bit of time afterwards. She didn’t know that there was a 30-strong backing choir or 50-piece orchestra till she saw it on her way down. What a queen.

Link: An interview with the producer of the show.

And the rest of the performance: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aArVxjh_s7I

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AND HER VERSION HAS SO MUCH SOUL IN IT. C’MON ARETHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Many people did not realize that Aretha Franklin sang Opera. She practiced singing everyday for several hours and she loved opera. She was known to visit Jesse Norman and enjoyed all of the great operas when they came to Detroit . The queen had wonderful musical taste and talent.

[renthebarbarian]

HOMEBOY IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO FUCKING AROUND

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Ocean’s 8 (2018) dir. Gary Ross

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hey kids if ur parents are abusive, dont be surprised if they suddenly change all their behaviors when u finally move out, if they start acting very nice and never even allude to all those times Before when they were treating u bad. this is a form of gaslighting and if u plan to keep distant from them as an adult, this may well be the defining characteristics of ur interaction w/ them. it’s tough to navigate this, because u will almost definitely wonder: was i abused? listen… when u sit in ur own home someday, maybe w/ a loved one, and things feel good, and the past feels far away, ur abuse was not made up. ur parents really did those things, and whether or not u want to keep them out of ur life or form a new dynamic w/ them, that’s up to u. but never let them make u believe they were always good to u.

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this is 100% true

[youlovetoseeit]

I can’t with this

[ulibeanzz]

imagine having money wow i just got chills

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my grandma embroidered little flowers on her clothes like i do and she taught me how to cook asparagus so it actually tasted good and she wrote about grief so simply that i could make sense of it when i was a child that had just lost a grandfather and sometimes i wonder how much of me is made of her and how much of me is my uncle and how much is my best friend and how much is my little sister. i wonder how much of them is me.

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If you become a ghost when you die, you can just possess your dead body and act like nothing ever happened.

[probsjosh]

Danny Phantom