No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.
Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?