much ado about ramblin'

What's so important about a crown or really a fancy little BOGUS title such as "queen of soul" - huh?

Beyonce's Grammy kerfuffle has been the subject of much debate - and quite frankly IT IS ALL SO SILLY! For Tina Turner is HER queen; she did say "hail the queen" - we never heard "of soul", did we? Tina is the queen of MANY things! She truly paved the way for Beyoncé; not Aretha! Tina is the queen of ROCK! She is the queen of RHYTHM! She also played the Acid queen in The Who's rock-opera turned cinematic feat, "Tommy" but that is another story...
Her dad weighed in and now it is set for a battle of the heavyweights, I suppose?!? (Aretha is HEAVY, you know; I'd rank her as nothing less than a superheavyweight, in fact! But that is not R-E-S-P-E-C-T, I suppose...!)

67% of surveyed peeps out there said that Aretha was the true queen of soul; while the remaining 33% went with Tina and therefore Beyoncé's bold call... Hey - this is all very subjective here! After all, even with true monarchy, the case could be made that someone else could or should be wearing the crown of the United Kingdom's royal heritage - and if that's the case for the most celebrated royal family, it is the case for all the other ones that remain out there!

We could go on about these fake queens too, indefinitely - bogus highnesses such as the "queen of vampires" for instance. Who is she really: Vampirella, Lilith or the pathetic Akasha... huh?!?
Who is the queen of the sea - Mera, Ariel or a surface-dweller such as Bélit, who was but a mere buccaneer but still... (Plus she had the title of "queen of the Black Coast" already - despite being caucasian and all... Oh well, she had dark hair, at least! A true and true sufferer of the Tarzan syndrome there! But that is another story again...)

Who is the true queen of mean now - since Leona Helmsley died, who can it be?!? Martha Stewart? No - she's so nice and tidy! Oprah Winfrey? She's so charitable! Barbara Walters? Everyone's lost interest a long time ago... Rosie O'Donnell? Ahh, NOW you may have a candidate there...!

BUT... all this is so POINTLESS!

Nobody cares who's the queen of what - or who's the king of whatever either!




For the record though, I spurn Aretha too - but in favor of Ella!

ELLA, ELLE L'A! As the lovely Frenchwoman France Gall sang so well! And, unlike others out there, I do not allow the mere fact that they "are no longer with us" to usurp the throne and give the crown to another...! With a real throne and crown, of course, we must find the next-of-kin and heir apparent; but since even real royalty is vastly FOR SHOW only nowadays, what do you think my stance is regarding bogus, vastly honorific only titles and crowns, eh?

No, my brethren, there is no death boundary here; or rather there shouldn't be! And so shall it be done - on the TLB PRIME NETWORK, anyhow!

The queen of the Fado is still Amalia
The queen of soul may be Aretha
But the queen of rock is Tina
The queen of BLACK MUSIC overall is Ella
and the queen of mean isn't Leona - cause I've found worse examples in a dozen other specimens! For their names and sad and sorry cases, check out the LAMBASTING BLOG! *LMBO*


You must admit that, with my system, it gives a whole new meaning to "the Queen is Dead - Long Live the Queen!"

It applies to the King version too... of course!