Natalie Cole – Pink Cadillac
When I listen to “Pink Cadillac”, I think that Natalie Cole’s life always met my sympathy and respect. Respect for a woman, who sadly passed away on the last day on 2015, because she could probably be safe with an easy life. She was Nat King Cole’s daughter, one of the greatest artists of soul, R&B, jazz, and also an important player in the game against racial segregation. Yet Natalie wanted to try her own chance. She had an encouraging start with R&B: she was very young when she won a prize that for the last 8 years had always been awarded to Aretha Franklin!
She wanted her try, but I think she was oppressed inside by her father’s myth. A mix between the feeling to thank him, and maybe an impossible wish to sing with him. She had a good start, but soon tough times arrived, and Natalie did not hold the pressure. Soon she found herself seriously addicted. She managed to get out, and had some other chance to start again, like this pop song.
Actually she was kind of a woman at the wrong moment. It was not her fault if we were at the end of the 80s. If you needed to do easy pop songs to have success! So here she was, in leather skirt almost at 40, in an easy video, surrounded by easy teenagers, in a cover of the B-side of Springsteen’s “Dancing in the dark” . I’d rather remember her in the virtual duet that, finally, she succeeded to so with her father. Maybe this helped her closing a circle that was opened since too long.
#quotefromthe80s
Well they tempt you man with silver
and they tempt you sir with gold
and they tempt you with the pleasures
that the flesh does surely hold
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Natalie Cole on Wikipedia
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