Song of the Day 7/5: James Ingram, “I Believe I Can Fly”
Great news for fans of “The Jetsons” — you can sign up now, for a small deposit, for your flying car.
Well, not exactly a car. As the article at the link notes, “To avoid automobile crash-test laws and other regulations, it will have a 25mph limit, and drive more like a golf cart than a car.” All yours for a mere $300,000, if it wins FAA approval as an aircraft. Hmmm…to avoid regulations. Where else have I heard that lately?
This song was written by R. Kelly, but there’s no way I’m linking to anything by that sick fuck. James Ingram is ten times the singer Kelly is anyway, and as a bonus isn’t serving a 30-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.
Speaking of sick fuck musicians, the news journal is already hard at work rehabilitating Jimmie Allen. You gotta be glad you got out when you did.
I couldn’t believe that either. Nothing but aiding and abetting the rehab of his rep:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/05/jimmie-allen-kash-doll-lil-meech-young-dylan-celebrity-basketball-game-delaware/70382768007/
Including this excellent line: “He subsequentally dropped from his record label.”
I know they fired all the copy editors but geez, peeps.
Has there been anything other than the article about the charity basketball game? I agree the soft-sell on the lawsuits — “he has not been charged with any crimes” indeed — smacks of cover-up, but remember the story is supposedly actually about a charity event, so the charitable reading might be that they didn’t want to besmudge a good cause.
Back in the days when reporters could aspire to moving up in the world of newspapering, a reporter might have called up Allen’s management and pressed on whether he’ll show up, or for any other comment, rather than quoting a video. Sadly, quoting Twitter and other such sources seems to constitute journalism these days.
I wonder if he’ll actually show for the event. The first lawsuit he might have defended as he said-she said, but once the second one hit — and there’s word of more where that came from — he should pucker up and kiss his career goodbye.
True. But the story was about Jimmie Allen, not the other celeb participants who, while not at his level, aren’t at his level when it comes to charges proffered against…
That thing looks like a cut-and-paste from Allen’s publicist.
FWIW, I’ve never heard of any of the other participants. Jimmie Allen is magnitudes better known, in part because TNJ has crowed about his Delaware roots.
A real newspaper would have asked the organizers why they hadn’t cancelled Allen — in other words, would have treated this as the career crisis it so obviously is for Allen. A newspaper afraid of offending people isn’t really a newspaper, is it?
Seems you didn’t see the Andre Lamar piece about Allen — with his wife and two kids — showing up in their boat at a Long Neck bar, describing how he got a “full celebrity” reception and played a couple of tunes for appreciative fans.
I read it in the dead tree edition this morning but can’t find it online.
I did not, but that answers my question. Thanks.
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/entertainment/2023/07/05/jimmie-allen-kash-doll-lil-meech-young-dylan-celebrity-basketball-game-delaware/70382768007/
It’s here.