Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like an odd way to phrase your title OP. Her music carries on.

I think OP’s title is fine…I don’t get what the problem is. She is no more. She has died. Of course her music carries on.

+1. "Is no more" is a euphemism, just like "passed away," "has left us," "is gone," etc.

OP here. I am trying to understand why my title caused so much consternation to certain posters. Someone actually called me a pig yesterday over the thread title.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like an odd way to phrase your title OP. Her music carries on.

I think OP’s title is fine…I don’t get what the problem is. She is no more. She has died. Of course her music carries on.

+1. "Is no more" is a euphemism, just like "passed away," "has left us," "is gone," etc.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like an odd way to phrase your title OP. Her music carries on.

I think OP’s title is fine…I don’t get what the problem is. She is no more. She has died. Of course her music carries on.

Seems like an odd way to phrase your title OP. Her music carries on.

Anonymous wrote:I was telling my 8 year old daughter that Tina Turner died, and that she was an inspiration to a lot of people. We listened to some of her songs and I tried to explain that she reportedly had her legs insured for millions of dollars.

"Her legs? Why her legs? What's so great about her legs? Why would you insure your legs? What about the rest of her body?"

*shows DD a picture of Tina Turner*

"Oh. She does have really great legs."

So true!

I remember the back of the Private Dancer album

I was telling my 8 year old daughter that Tina Turner died, and that she was an inspiration to a lot of people. We listened to some of her songs and I tried to explain that she reportedly had her legs insured for millions of dollars.

"Her legs? Why her legs? What's so great about her legs? Why would you insure your legs? What about the rest of her body?"

*shows DD a picture of Tina Turner*

"Oh. She does have really great legs."

Anonymous wrote:I have never seen the "What's Love Got to Do with It" movie. I plan on watching it this weekend.

Her second husband was 16 years younger, which today isn't that shocking.

She was so intelligent, not to walk straight into another abusive marriage to another abusive man. She just did a complete 180. She found someone completely different, who was the right man for her.

She was the OG divested diamond, who decided she was going to marry the man she loved, not who the world thought she should be with. Many women can learn a lot from her.

And he somehow looked older than her? His kidney donation to her apparently stopped her from considered assisted suicide because of her illness.

I was a kid in the 80s when What's Love Got to Do With It came out and I hated that song. HATED it! I appreciate her and the song more more now. What a powerhouse performer and an inspiration to women everywhere. I read something the other day that she apparently said about her divorce which was just so powerful-- "You take everything I've made in the last 16 years. I'll take my future."

I’m glad she found happiness with her second husband.

I’m an older white man and for whatever reason I find myself tearing up thinking about Tina Turner’s passing in a way that hasn’t been true with her contemporaries.

Social media and web sites are cruel, so I won’t over-analyze it to spare myself from the abuse, but the combination of her music and her persona was uniquely powerful. She made a connection with an audience that very few performers have made.

RIP.

Anonymous wrote:

From the other thread

Aussies and CNN honor Tina with Nutbush City Limits dance (grew up Ian Australia and that song did play at nearly every club/ dance/ event when I was young …

RIP Tina and thanks for all the great music !


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In the biopic movie about her, Ike brutally raped and assaulted her and hit her head so hard she got a traumatic brain injury while she was recording the song. That's when she became a practicing Buddhist with saying her mantra.

From the other thread

Aussies and CNN honor Tina with Nutbush City Limits dance (grew up Ian Australia and that song did play at nearly every club/ dance/ event when I was young …

RIP Tina and thanks for all the great music !


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I have never seen the "What's Love Got to Do with It" movie. I plan on watching it this weekend.

Her second husband was 16 years younger, which today isn't that shocking.

She was so intelligent, not to walk straight into another abusive marriage to another abusive man. She just did a complete 180. She found someone completely different, who was the right man for her.

She was the OG divested diamond, who decided she was going to marry the man she loved, not who the world thought she should be with. Many women can learn a lot from her.

Anonymous wrote:What was the long illness?

She reportedly had kidney problems and had been on dialysis.

What was the long illness?