{"id":93169,"date":"2024-10-27T22:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T05:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93169"},"modified":"2024-10-27T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T05:48:50","slug":"rocking-around-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/10\/27\/rocking-around-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking Around the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m a good singer, you know.  I\u2019m a good singer. 
\nI\u2019m not a great singer, right.  But, you know what?  I\u2019ll take good.\u201d <\/em> <\/em><\/span> <\/em><\/span>
\n\u2013 <\/em>Cher<\/strong> during her induction speech to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>
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While I was cavorting with the glitterati in SoBe, Taylor Swift <\/strong>was at nearby Hard Rock Stadium <\/em>regaling the masses \u2013 well, the masses who could afford tickets!  This would normally not be column-worthy, but spotted in the crowd were Ivanka Trump <\/strong>(Kushner<\/strong>) and her 13-year-old daughter, Arabella<\/strong>.  While nary a female Trump can ever be found at any of Donald\u2019s rallies, the one he wants to sleep with went to see someone he loathes.  Although, to be fair, he\u2019s also said nice things about Taylor.  Once he said, \u201cI think she\u2019s beautiful \u2013 very beautiful.  I find her very beautiful.\u201d  Then he said, \u201cI was not a Taylor Swift fan…She\u2019s a very liberal person, she seems to always endorse a Democrat and she\u2019ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.\u201d  Actually, I think Ivanka is the one who did the paying \u2013 and from her seat location, it was a pretty penny, to be sure.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, a legendary lady was treated rather poorly at another glittering affair.  Darlene Love<\/strong>, a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame <\/em><\/strong>class of 2011, was invited to this year\u2019s Induction Ceremony <\/em>\u2013 specifically because they were honoring her friends and collaborators Dionne Warwick <\/strong>and Cher<\/strong> (who she recorded with last year).  All seemed fine at first.  She and her husband were flown out, put up, etc.  While it seemed they had rolled out the red carpet for her, Darlene was not actually allowed on the red carpet. And that was just the beginning.  She was seated way back in the hall, she couldn\u2019t visit her friends backstage, and she was kept from the press.  When she got home, Darlene went public with the snub saying, \u201cIt\u2019s disheartening to see how much the event has strayed from its roots.  The music industry is about our contributions, not just the fanfare.  Do better next time, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame<\/em>.\u201d  Within moments of her post going public, she got a call from the president of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame<\/em>, Greg Harris<\/strong>.  He \u201cpersonally apologized to me and all the other inductees who felt mistreated at Saturday\u2019s event…We ended the call with love, understanding, and no hard feelings.\u201d  So, I guess I\u2019m the only one who\u2019s still pissed off!  To quote Bette Midler<\/strong>, who inducted Darlene into the Rock Hall of Fame<\/em>, \u201cWe hold a grudge\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m a good singer, you know.  I\u2019m a good singer.  I\u2019m not a great singer, right.  But, you know what?  I\u2019ll take good.\u201d    \u2013 Cher during her induction speech to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. While I was cavorting with the glitterati in SoBe, Taylor Swift was at nearby Hard Rock Stadium<\/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-93169","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\/93169","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=93169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93170,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93169\/revisions\/93170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}