[HN Gopher] Betty Davis has died
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Betty Davis has died
Author : neonate
Score : 118 points
Date : 2022-02-10 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| irrational wrote:
| I read this as Betty White and was so confused. I guess I don't
| know of very many people named Betty.
| singlow wrote:
| More confusingly, I first thought of Bette Davis who died in
| 1989.
| mc32 wrote:
| Yeah, given the original and the cover of the song Bette
| Davis Eyes, it's not hard to confuse who's who.
| conductr wrote:
| Me too and I was confused why the news just made it here,
| thought this must be a great Rolling Stones article to be
| trending on HN 5-6 weeks after she passed. Then, oh, nope,
| that's not Betty white...
| ghaff wrote:
| It's (at least mostly) a diminutive for Elizabeth (or Elisabeth
| more recently) but Elizabeth has declined a lot in the past few
| decades. I'd also (very anecdotally) observe that diminutives
| like Liz have probably become more popular than Betty.
| jayzalowitz wrote:
| dang wrote:
| Please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
| neonate wrote:
| Someone has put up the 2017 documentary about her:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4HYfDDd_lA
| nabla9 wrote:
| When you listen Prince, you can always hear the influence of
| Betty Davis.
| worik wrote:
| Sad. Love her music. So under rated and so maligned
|
| She was too far ahead of her time. The Rock'n'Roll world was not
| ready for such an independent, sexual, and black woman in the
| 1970s
| oregano wrote:
| How so maligned? Because of her marriage to and influence on
| Miles Davis (similar to Yoko Ono and John Lennon)?
|
| Agree she was under rated.
| worik wrote:
| Are you kidding me? Are you comparing Betty's relationship
| with Miles to Yoko Ono and John Lennon?
|
| She was maligned in that the record company would not put her
| records into shops. Not in the 1970s
| neonate wrote:
| Probably the GP was just asking _if_ she was maligned for
| similar reasons as Yoko. (The answer is no.)
| yucky wrote:
| Chaka Khan, Mavis Staples, Bernadette Cooper etc would
| disagree.
| zeruch wrote:
| Betty predates Chaka and Bernadette (and Chaka admits to
| influence from Betty), and Mavis was considerably prudish
| compared to the stage antics of Betty.
|
| Betty's gravity on Miles alone would be enough to guarantee
| her iconic status, but her overall body of work is
| significant for its overall influence.
| whocares34y45y wrote:
| dang wrote:
| You may be under a misimpression of what's on topic here.
| Nothing has changed. HN has always been for posts that gratify
| intellectual curiosity, on literally any topic. Betty Davis is
| interesting because of her music, her story, and her historical
| significance.
|
| Of course, no post gratifies everyone's curiosity--the front
| page is an amalgam of a lot of people's different tastes. If
| this topic isn't to yours, there are plenty of others to look
| at. If you'd please do that instead and refrain from posting
| unsubstantive comments, we'd appreciate it.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| teddyh wrote:
| Since you link to the HN guidelines, I'll take the liberty to
| quote them:
|
| _If they 'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic._
| tasty_freeze wrote:
| teddyh, do realize the person you are responding to is the
| moderator of HN?
| teddyh wrote:
| As it happens, no. I almost never look at usernames, as
| the design of HN promotes, by making user names hard to
| read. And even if I had, is moderatorial infallibility a
| dogma? Put another way, does any conversation improve by
| "do you know who I am?"? What is the purpose of your
| comment? To make me retract my comment because I didn't
| know who I was disagreeing with?
| dang wrote:
| Note that word probably
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426). Betty Davis
| is hardly the epitome of a TV news story.
| teddyh wrote:
| Perhaps not. But my quote illustrates an exception to
| your statement that " _HN has always been for posts that
| gratify intellectual curiosity, on literally any topic._
| ". There has to be _some_ limitation on what is
| considered interesting, or else HN will simply always
| contain the top news headlines. I think that HN too often
| does not follow the quoted guideline, and instead appears
| to simply follow the rule that "people on HN are
| interested in this, therefore it belongs here", and I
| think that this reasoning, unchecked, will lead HN to be
| a simple general news commentary site, and not a site
| limited to specific topics. If this happens, I fear that
| HN will attract people who will want to comment on those
| general news issues, and then it'll be all over.
| Apocryphon wrote:
| That guideline probably should be revised, all manner of
| tech news is covered on television these days.
| dang wrote:
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false
| &qu...
| dinero_rojo wrote:
| Very sad to see her go.
|
| Mike Judge's (of King of the Hill and Idiocracy fame) Tales From
| the Tour Bus episode on her was excellent.
| listenallyall wrote:
| lotophage wrote:
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| Worth noting for those who don't click through to read the
| article that this is funk artist Betty Davis, not actress Bette
| Davis.
| tyingq wrote:
| neonate wrote:
| If you haven't heard her incredible music before:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuDoR_L0M0
|
| Edit: that link works for me but if not, maybe this one will
| work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IhCCtcEEFU
| yesenadam wrote:
| "video unavailable"
|
| Here's a URL of that song that works: _They Say I 'm Different_
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWPynScqgw
|
| _Nasty Gal_ album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5HthdWlMfw
|
| _If I 'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up_
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2B0FBdzGis
|
| 26 seconds live video of her & band doing that song live
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvRo1AUeAfM
|
| Her 4th album, _Is it Love or Desire?_ , recorded 1976,
| released 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfV9ZO_CFyA
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| The 2017 documentary about her (54 mins)
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4HYfDDd_lA
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