[HN Gopher] Betty Davis has died ___________________________________________________________________ Betty Davis has died Author : neonate Score : 118 points Date : 2022-02-10 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.rollingstone.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.rollingstone.com) | 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 | | The 2017 documentary about her (54 mins) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4HYfDDd_lA ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-10 23:00 UTC)