You know, I’m not sure where I came across Ruthie
Foster, but she’s got one of those go-to voices, warm and sweet as honey on a
sore throat. I’ve been hitting her rather heavily, lately, because—well, a girl’s
gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.
And one of my favorites is her take on Maya
Angelou’s “Phenomenal
Woman”. When Angelou has recited it, she’s been high-energy and very close
to attitudinal.
(As an aside, one of my colleagues at the Monolithic
Enterprise Software Company once remarked to me, “We gotta get you some attitude.” I replied, “I’d have thought
that attitude was the one thing with which I was singularly well supplied.” She
shot back, “We gonna get you some sistah-attitude.”
That’s what Angelou expresses.)
In Foster’s hands, though, it’s languid and inviting. She absolutely knocks it out of the park.
Damn.
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