woman singing opera throughout
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here for the songs + jokes | extraordinarily regular, yet regularly extraordinary. | “if you think I’m not, I am. but if you think I am? I’m not.”
Joined April 2021
if you’ve never seen a Black girl singing Schumann with golds on her bottom row, here’s your chance.
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Simone Biles having zero humility about her ability is exactly my kinda carrying on.
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if more producers would go to music school, we would get so much more of this.
Dawg, Metro Boomin is on another planet w/this shit here. Whole symphony ROCKING
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“passenger princess” is an interspecies phenomenon.
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Kirk Franklin makes music for the secular saints who still got one foot and two titties in the streets.
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whatever they saying she did, she did it. and no, its not abt her eyes. its abt her mouth. don’t make me explain it.
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the fact that this could be about gun control, covid, food insecurity, homelessness, etc. .
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i was today years old when i found out that working through covid would prolong symptoms. even working from home. bc “powering through” apparently makes the brain fog worse. and prolonged symptoms leads to long covid, and we don’t know those long effects.
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@phlyist the way she has to force the smile after that was how i knew. like girl you k-lled all them people, i will not be bothering you!.
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@LoveMeDownPink the way you can see the shift when she was like “that’s your hypothesis.” miss gworl is a femme Snoop from the wire.
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this country hates Black people. full stop. i thought we all paid attention in US history to know that. Reconstruction ended bc there were too many Black senators in SC. college stopped being free after integration. gun laws didn’t exist before the BPP started openly carrying.
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@spaceghostcash i didn’t say go to college for it. i just said go to music school. take a lesson. sign up for band. just do something beyond garage band.
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@_AllEyezOnZee its the way her lips curl and unfurl at the corners. she saying so much saying NOTHING.
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@DrianneBelleza i’m abt to double down. that one with the “you told the girl’s mama her last words were…” and she only said “i never talked to her mama.” that’s the one that did it. bc babyyyy. ain’t no way you seeing what i’m seeing and not calling it a spade. she did that all that shit.
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Cardi's 3rd career as a civil rights and wrongful death attorney is going to be monumental.
Lauren Smith-Fields' family says Cardi B was instrumental in getting the police to investigate her death as a crime.
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covid persists bc we don’t rest and heal. like the disease really intends to stop people in their tracks, and the government, even the presently elderly, covid+ president, continues to just say “nope.”
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i’ll never talk to a white therapist again bc yesterday, when i said “if this is all life has to offer, i’m so good on it,” the counselor said “well that’s a positive attitude to have. you’re already looking at the bright side!”. cultural competency will always evade them.
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@Eli_Ana_Ma the singer cares about being Black. and since I am the singer in this video, I care that I am Black. so yes, I said what I said about being a BLACK woman singing Schumann with bottom row golds. but I truly do thank you for this compliment.
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i want them to put music back in schools bc why would you call this an orchestra? where do you see string instruments?. WHY IS THIS MAKING ME SO MAD???.
Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” being played by high school orchestras. 🎼
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“cause tonoight will be the noight that i will bark for yew!”.
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i’m so glad i really didn’t do anything but a bulletin that first week. my primary symptoms were fatigue and brain fog. my head was gone. not doing anything for 2 weeks might have been the best thing for me. big, big wow.
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seeing people lament over a lack of romantic companionship hurts me. it sucks bc there’s nothing anyone can do about it. all you can do is keep dating, honestly. maybe change the pool. other than that… its not up to you. and there’s little substitute for desiring romantic love.
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Beyoncè (ILYSM) bout to have y’all finally learning the difference between opera and classical. all opera is classical, but all classical is not opera. “Caro mio ben” is not an aria bc its not from an opera; its an italian art song. opera is a genre of theater… not the same.
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the president of Morris Brown College gas announced that they will accept Art Institute of Atlanta students and all of their credits. his exact words were “you will not have to start over.”. there is a silver lining here.
Wait a minute, did y’all hear about Art Institute abruptly closing all their campuses??? They told the students to go finish school somewhere else
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@iammelanin fun fact!. Nina Simone was classically trained, but they wouldn’t let her into Juilliard bc Black. i hate that fun fact, but i love what came out of it, and honestly, the Nina we love is the Nina they rejected. and I’ll be that too. 🤷🏽♀️🥰.
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a Keith Lee episode of Bob's Burgers would be fuckin iconic.
Someone said they wish “bobs burgers” was a real place so Keith lee could review and bring them business. And that’s so true cause my boy be struggling 😭.
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anything that happens between a man and a woman is heterosexual activity. anything. including that thing y’all never wanna talk about that i��ve been referring to as “Hank’s wife.”.
Unpopular opinions about Sex & Kinks that would get you in this position?
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if you were the friend that decided to decenter romance before the rest of your friend group, you’re the one isolated. you’re the only one not on accord with the group. this does not feel like being the last single friend. (that’s the part nobody really wants to discuss.).
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i’m in mother fucking Vogue. American Vogue. draped in Polo i can’t afford,.singing a Verdi aria i was told my voice should “never touch,”.IN MY BOTTOM ROW GRILL. man, look. i’m just a little Black girl from round Highland Park. i’m not even supposed to be here. (…but i am.).
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here’s a link to my YouTube channel. i’m still learning how to keep up with content trends so its not a lot there, but enjoy what is. also, i don’t read my comments so if you wanna spout bullshit or be a hater, there is not the place.
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@CRWNDKING_Brand @spaceghostcash i didn’t say they didn’t. i said “if more would go…”. for every 3 producers in an arranging class, there are 30 who won’t go or think its not needed. i want more than basic is all. and i want more than basic from every genre, especially hiphop and musical theater. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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@LaSaleGarce nope. this was a custom fit so they are on like a glove. but i will say: i can’t wear my top row when i’m singing in english or german. the romance languages are fine bc all the vowels are pure in the mouth, but mixed vowels take more upper lip tension, so its harder.
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platonic relationships are amazing. however, as i’ve said before: you can have amazing friends, the most supportive family, and an incredible career. but if you still crave romance and don’t have it, you will still pine for and lament -that- lack. bc romance is community too.
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today is the 3rd anniversary of when @tevincampbelll said i sound like an angel and i didn’t need voice lessons from him bc i sounded like that. Tevin Campbell is why i went and finished that damn degree, honestly. so yea, this is literally how it started v. how it’s going.
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i said to my friend “i fucked this audition up so bad that if i get this job? what’s for me is FOR me.”. i can’t sleep so i checked my email. SAINTS. i’m here to tell you. what’s for me is for me. 🥲.
i have never bombed an audition so bad. holy shit.
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@bbykayke pls go back and finish. I dropped out for 9 years. went back to finish my degree in 2019. i just graduated with my BM, with a minor in speech-language pathology. and i did it cum laude. its never too late to say “fuck them people.” go back to get your paper. do it for YOU.
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platonic love is not a substitute for romance. platonic community is not a substitute for romantic community. platonic community is not a substitute for people who actively desire to have a family. and being the cool aunt does not remove one’s desire to be a mother. full stop.
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@quietchaos1105 credit scores exist bc women and Black people (specifically Black women) were buying homes too easily. when Black women started getting too many degrees, the requirements for both pell grants and parent plus loans got more stringent. the evidence is literally all right there.
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i’m sorry, i don’t wanna seem like a know-it-all… but i really thought we all knew that retaliation is just as codified as racism into this country’s DNA. i really thought we all had come to accept it.
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yellow cake is not lemon cake. I REPEAT, yellow cake is NOT lemon cake. thank you for your time.
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watching "The Family That Preys" and I can confidently say this is absolutely Tyler Perry's best work. from the casting to the cinematography. Kathy Bates, Robin Givens, and Alfre Woddard slayed these mf roles. "the memory card is full." baby this is CINEMA.
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so when we talk about people who desire romance as though they’re lacking love and support from a platonic community, we miss the idea that maybe the community they seek is more intimate in number and emotion. platonic love is not what they need atp. i can empathize with that.
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i told my mama so i can tell y'all. i got the lead role. (🤭🥹🥲🤗). so those of you who were -not- pump faking should plan to be in DC for one of 2 weekends: February 23-25 and/or March 1-3, 2024. its a double cast, so i’ll keep y’all posted on which nights i’m on stage! 🥰.
so when i get cast in this opera that’s going up in the spring, are y’all gonna buy tickets and come like y’all said??. or we just pump faking?.
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i know no one cares but i haven’t had a suicidal ideation or attempt since 6 January 2015. 7 years of stable mental health feels worth tweeting about to me today. shoutout to the ones who know my truth. i love you. forever and for real.
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this is why you can’t settle. bc there will always be someone happy to meet your needs and fulfill your wants.
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i personally think it will always come back to people feeling prioritized, and when they don’t, they feel slighted. decentering romance in lieu of platonic community won’t feel like anything if the platonic community doesn’t prioritize you either.
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Obama was just the icing on the cake.
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my boss sent me a clip from the other day’s session. sharing bc i’m not supposed to keep these things to myself. also i looked really good and somebody needs to see my hair bc i did it myself.
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accepting that partnership in its most fundamental form is not in your control can be difficult. and also disheartening as you get older. bc if its out of your control, and no one’s choosing to partner with you, it can make you feel like -you- are deficient.
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i mean it so sincerely when i say my friendships are the most important relationships in my life bc loving them freely taught me how to romance. friendship matters more to me than every other kind of love. its the only one we’re actively choosing every day without obligation.
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really cannot believe that a pair of shoes that look like goat hooves are the ones tearing up the internet on a long weekend.
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BUT WHEN I SAID “chef” WAS NOT JUST A TITLE, BUT A CREDENTIAL MARKED BY EDUCATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCES, Y’ALL CALLED ME UPPITY!. this is exactly why its honey, hennessy, and parsley on every fuckin thing. we all need to be tired by now!.
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and that’s when i realized: unless i was surrounded by people who were moving through life the way i was, i wasn’t ever going to feel like i fit in anywhere. full stop.
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he graduated Mama Cum Laude after being outta school that long. man. you better just damn DO IT.
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YES BAWDY.
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i love when y’all wake this up. but also, if y’all know anybody looking for a singer or a voice teacher, reach out. i’m back on the job/contract hunt.
if you’ve never seen a Black girl singing Schumann with golds on her bottom row, here’s your chance.
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his wife in her room in her battle bonnet, praying he stop posting.
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…and for the number of “if its not working with anyone you’ve ever dated, YOU’RE THE PROBLEM!” tweets i’ve seen today?. we can’t expect people to not feel less than desirable for being single when the response is that they are the problem.
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if you’re monogamous, romance is the community between you and one other where a romantic love is shared. polyamoury is the practice of experiencing romantic love with multiple partners. romantic love is just as rooted in community as the others.
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i’m tired of y’all saying “lean into the other loves til romance comes.”. leaning into friendship or family or self does not negate or remove the desire for romantic love. it’ll gnaw at you until you have it. but also: accept that it may not come. and that sucks. i’m sorry.
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@TiricoHairline the second slide starting with “look at that cat” sent me. man if you don’t hurry up and get them folks that cat. 🥹🥲😂.
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i know nobody cares but. i just wrote my first film score. and it’s very, very good.
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i really posted this video that day bc i thought i needed to quit singing and find a “real” job. i probably still do need to find a real job, but nods like this are still nice. 🥹.
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it’s universal if your family had the money.
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after 15 months of thugging it out with multiple part time jobs and temp contracts, a full time job with benefits IN THE FIELD has been secured. Black Jesus really did his big one with this. all i can do is say thank you.
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claiming this stage with a sold out crowd next.
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tl sleep? bet. I'm drunk on a Tuesday bc I got into grad school. and I'm honestly proud of that.
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the way y’all think i hired this white lady is insane. red cross sent her to me bc i had a housefire. i sent her right on back. the end.
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anyway i adopted a child. we’ll be spending tomorrow cleaning her room. and figuring out what her name is. bc if “i do not give a single solitary fuck abt what you got going on, i am here now” had a body? it would be her.
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i turned 30 and was very single. i didn’t see partnership happening for me in that time, so i decentered men. then i decentered romance. and it was cool til i realized i was alone in my stance. my friends wanted relationships and they were having them. i wasn’t. i was on my own.
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I sing a lot of funerals of old people (80+ y.o.), and you know which ones are sparsely populated? married women with a bunch of kids. nobody shows up but the kids. but you know which ones be packed out though? unmarried, childless women. it's a reason for that.
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me saying “you should consider taking voice lessons” is absolutely not me calling you a bad singer. the best teachers won’t take on bad singers as students. if i said that to you, i’m blatantly saying “you have a really good instrument and lessons preserve it.”.
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my monogamous friends in relationships stopped hanging out with me as much bc they were partnered. my poly friends in relationships were absorbed into their polycules, so they had built in communities with their romances. and i got leftovers.
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What’s that one video of you ?.
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my friend died by su*c*de back in March on my birthday. all she kept talking about was how tired she was. at her funeral, her dad said “it was nothing anyone could do. look how much she was loved just in this room. she did her best. she simply ran outta gas.”. i… get it.
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not coincidentally, the first generation of students to go to legally integrated schools their entire K12 career in the US is millennials. they wholesale killed the American Dream to keep Black and Brown people from having it. never forget that.
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neither of them will pick you. let’s move on.
I speak for all men when I say we will pick the thick one over the slim.
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her ear is greater than her voice and this is the proof. a lot of these other singers’ voices are greater than their ears. therein also lies the proof.
Beyoncé songs are very deceptively difficult BECAUSE SHE IS SUCH AN AMAZING SINGER she makes it look easy, but it is NOT. That’s why you see a million videos of ppl we all know can SANG down struggling through her songs.
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Mentally Eel.Shaqueel.Bathtub.Crunchwrap Supreme . bwoy i’m fuckin hollering. 😂.
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while i’m here:. the recording she did of Schubert’s “Ave Maria” is also NOT opera bc its sacred. that’s a church song. its a Marian prayer. if she pulls that back out of the vault for a rerelease, its going on the gospel album. mark my words.
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this is the question that needs to be answered.
“It’s his target demogra—“ why is he targeting that demographic.
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as a woman who has worn a 24W at her largest and a 4 at her smallest, let me just say: this woman is very correct. it doesn��t matter that they’re both considered plus sizes; the weight-based privileges that exist when you’re a size 14 aren’t always/often available at a size 24.
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@VirgoJ24 nah her realizing what i was saying and then asking me for clarity later on really sent me up. i dead ass asked her did she have any Black friends.
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this one's my favorite.
What skills have you acquired?.
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i want lovey dovey shit. send me notes (on paper or in the app, idc). make sure its always flowers or something for me. maybe grab me a 3-5 of some dank. love me out loud. and with things.
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to whichever woman said “not the place, not the time”: GO TO HELL. the man being accused is a gyn; there was never a bad time for this. imagine how many other women he violated in those last 7 years.
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an elder lesbian once told me “spaghetti is straight til its wet,” and that phrase has informed the intentions of many. lmao.
Why do studs go after straight women? No disrespect. I see it A LOT. Lol.
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