{"id":91432,"date":"2023-05-14T20:31:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T03:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91432"},"modified":"2023-05-14T20:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T03:31:35","slug":"anita-loses-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/05\/14\/anita-loses-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Loses Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anita Baker <\/strong>is in the midst of a farewell tour.&nbsp; Where is she going?&nbsp; And why?&nbsp; No one knows.&nbsp; Her opening act is <strong><em>Babyface <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 who is actually the co-headliner since he\u2019s probably a bigger name than her.&nbsp; The twosome were due to appear at the <em>Prudential Center <\/em>in Newark, NJ last week.&nbsp; The show was delayed two hours due to \u201ctechnical difficulties\u201d \u2013 which I hear stem from a malfunctioning video wall at the back of Baker\u2019s set.&nbsp; Because of this snafu, Baker asked Babyface not to perform \u2013 because the show had to end at the scheduled time or it would result in enormous overtime (once again, a union thing).&nbsp; Babyface let people know this was not his choice.&nbsp; \u201cI was asked not to perform in order to give Ms. Baker her space and time to perform her show in its entirety.&nbsp; My band and I are extremely saddened we didn\u2019t get to perform for y\u2019all tonight.\u201d&nbsp; His fans were pissed and, let\u2019s face it \u2013 most of the audience was there to see him, anyway.&nbsp; Someone pointed out that the diva has done this before.&nbsp; \u201cAnita Baker needs to stop having Co-headliners if she going to continue to act this way.&nbsp; She did this a while back with <strong>Maxwell<\/strong>.\u201d&nbsp; I say Maxwell and Babyface should do their own tour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Baker is in the midst of a farewell tour.&nbsp; Where is she going?&nbsp; And why?&nbsp; No one knows.&nbsp; Her opening act is Babyface \u2013 who is actually the co-headliner since he\u2019s probably a bigger name than her.&nbsp; The twosome were due to appear at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ last week.&nbsp; The show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91441,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91432\/revisions\/91441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}