Ended my last night at #TCA15 with Annie Lennox performing from her jazz songbook, Nostalgia. During the Q&A, I took an opportunity to ask her about a controversial Gawker article which vilified Lennox for not acknowledging on an appearance with Tavis Smiley that Strange Fruit, the 1939 Billie Holiday recording, was about the lynchings in the south. More ire erupted on Twitter. Lennox, who addressed the issue for the first time, said the posting was so painful for me. It was so painful. I can’t even begin to tell you. I’m the last person who would disrespect that history. And then one person who on a nasty blog...the whole thing blew out of context and I couldn’t come back because if I did that it would all get blown up again, so I had to just keep quiet. She did acknowledge that she didn’t reference the lynchings in her interview with Smiley, because I already assumed, obviously, that Tavis being an incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable man, especially of African, you know, origin would know know what I was talking about. She did, however, talk about it in her epk for the album. You can check it out, and listen to the tracks, at nostalgia.annielennox/#2
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:15:47 +0000
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