While determining who is an actor who sings and who is a singer who acts is a subjective act, Billboard looked at the entirety of an artist’s career. Which field came first was not a deciding factor – for example, Mark Wahlberg was recording artist Marky Mark before pursuing an acting...
Lead single "From a Woman" not only answers boyfriend Young Thug's "From a Man," but it explores relationship-centric vulnerability and surrender through the lens of empowerment. "I close my eyes and trust your plan / Won't let no one force my hand," she...
As an actress, she's also earned acclaim for her roles in films like Lady Sings the Blues and The Wiz. Dig Deeper The Best Diana Ross Albums of All Time Also ranks #7 on The Greatest Artists Who Have Never Won a Grammy Also ranks #8 on The 200+ Best Female Singer...
As Janis Joplin sings in Me and Bobby McGee, for them “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” In that sense, sociopaths are free. Normal people, however, have everything to lose in becoming involved with sociopaths. For us, time is very precious and life is not ...
Tom Petty means it when he sings that he'll stand his ground in 1989's "I Won't Back Down," a single used in the younger Bush's campaign before Petty sent a cease and desist letter. That evidently didn't scare Michelle Bachmann, because she played Petty's "American Girl" when she...
This time around, Iké ratchets up the intimacy as she sings about cooking up the beloved Jamaican staple on a lazy Sunday morning with her lover. And Bada$$ adds his own unique flavor to the recipe for domestic bliss with a lusty Johnny Appleseed metaphor that's hard to forget before in...
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) is perhaps one of the most famous of all U.S authors. Known widely for her poems and autobiographies, she was also an accomplished actor and screenplay writer, appearing in popular films such asHow to...
In the song, Mitchell sings about a one-night stand between the narrator (presumably herself, based on clues in the song) and a farmhand she dubs “Coyote.” Executive assistant to the stars Chris O'Dell alleged in her 2009 autobiography that the subject of the song is none other than ...
The other main entertainment at the Kinoscope orgy is Lady Fay Zhu, who sings a racy cabaret song called “My Girl’s Pussy” while clad in an androgynous tuxedo, an homage to both Marlene Dietrich’s homosexually suggestive performance in the 1930 film “Morocco” and a 1932 portrait of ...