BETTY DAVIS-"SHUT OFF THE LIGHT" (1975)

NASTY GAL Remastered CD: Oct. 6, 2009!
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Lights out with Queen of Funk!

Betty goes at it full-throttle in this scorcher. She leaves it to interpretation but here's a few sketches of possibilities.

If the 60's was the Empowerment decade -from King to X to Che to Chavez to the Counterculture- then the 70's was the Liberation decade. There were so many issues to address that what we know of as the 60's really stretches roughly from 1964 to 1975. The rise of Feminism and the lateral expression of sensuality were later, crucial extensions in that period.

Sexism is evil; but Sensuality is essential. The word "sex" can mean either gender or the sensual act. Folks who blur the two without distinction speak to neither well. Gender inequities are wrongs that should be righted. Sexuality is a spiritual and physical pleasure everyone has a right to. The best lights of Feminism understood this from the beginning, and do now with examples like Riot Grrl and Bust and Bitch magazines. Betty Davis was a progessive sensualist who was misunderstood and suppressed in her time by repressives and some confused progressives. Time has borne out the quality of her work and the merit of her stance.

"Liberation for all, Everything must be rethought." -funknroll

See also:
BETTY DAVIS- "F.U.N.K." (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsSIo...

BETTY DAVIS- "F.U.N.K." (2.0) (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNcohP...

BETTY DAVIS- "NASTY GAL" (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvvQq...

BETTY DAVIS- "HE WAS A BIG FREAK" (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgWYe...

BETTY DAVIS -"They Say I'm Different" (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTt1b...


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[smortonlcfl]

i'm sitting hear and love this. i have to get all her albums tomorrow.

[funknroll]

The first two albums have been just re-issued on CD, with remastered sound, extra songs, and great booklets with photos and interviews with Betty. Go to lightinthe attic(dot)com to check them out! The great third album, where this is from, called "Nasty Gal", is available in 'unofficial' form as a CD from Europe right now.

[funknroll]

Check out the new sequel video to "Betty Davis- F.U.N.K. (Part 2)" with more of the history of Funk: "YVONNE FAIR -FUNKY MUSIC SHO' NUFF TURNS ME ON (1975)"! Just click my name...

[ladykier]

I LOVE this nasty girl. I'd let her whip me with her turqoise leash and I'm not even into props.

[funknroll]

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[KaltundKlar]

She wipes the floor with Beyonce & co!

[die4uyes]

Beyonce is incapable of getting anywhere near this. This takes real life and soul, not imitation and millions of dollars. Betty Davis can do no wrong.

[Marcio Ramos]

sexy lovely sound you understand me baby.... yeahhhhhhhhhhhh

[blacksultan85]

love her sexy aggressive voice!!!!!!!!!!

[chea943]

Betty got great pleasure introducing new words to music. This alblum was going to be down right nasty, so that's what she called it NASTY GAL. On THEY SAY I'M DIFFERENT the word that kicked her off was freak, as in HE WAS A BIG FREAK, and the word tramp, as in DON'T CALL HER NO TRAMP. On LOVE OR DESIRE the word was whore, as in WHOREY ANGEL. Betty never cursed nor spoke of any body parts, but she'd throw one of those words at you in a minute. Nothing about Betty was like anyone then, or now!

[Anthony burbank]

You are right on  She isspecial and the best

[chea943]

BETTY DAVIS'S OWN WORDS..."This song is about a nice girl who has been dating a guy for weeks, and the two of them are hot for each other. One night he has his house all to himself, and the girl comes over, she's invisioned a romantic evening. but when she gets there, he's got every light on in the house, he's answering the phone, he's answering the front door...This is what the girl would like to do, and what she'd like to say." A lovely scene, simple, innocent, then Betty would FUNK IT UP!

[chea943]

When Betty Performed the stars came out..Our first show at the ROXY on Sunset... the first few rows were nothing but stars...GEORGE DUKE&STANLEY CLARK...CHAKA...MARTHA REEVES...JACK NICKLESON&WARREN BEATTY...LEON RUSSELL&MARY MACREARY..I could not see any further from where was positioned...After the show Betty saw WARREN( she had dated him few times)..and she saw a few members of EWF...and a girlfriend of her who sang backup for BobDylan and Chuck Berry..on our way out she met Mary Macreary!!

[chea943]

BETTY DAVIS LIVE FROM PARIS...Betty Davis Live@The Castellet 1976....Tell all your friends about BD, and tell them to tell all their friends...The world should know her and her music...Buy her music at LIGHT IN THE ATTIC... Theseare the people who are making this possible.

[nasa ginx]

Suddenly i feel like shakin a tail feather...oooh!

[bongoloid77]

No Black female artist could come close to this... Betty lived in a time where you couls hang out with JB, Sly and Hendrix to name but a few... Black artists today like Puffy, Jay Z, Beyonce know how to make money and product... back then they made money from seriously raw talent...different times

[TheNubianHippie]

What does Beyonce have to do with this song? They do two entirely different things. Can you just let these two women be great?