Little Richard has died

Post by smueller1234 » Sat, May 09, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #24

seizethecheese wrote: post #23

I’m struggling to figure out how this is news that a hacker would find interesting. I certainly don’t. Celebrity death news is banal. If there has never been a front page article about someone’s lived actions, we should not have one upon their death.

> I’m struggling to figure out how this is news that a hacker would find interesting. I certainly don’t. I'm struggling to find how this type of comment is considered interesting. HN is a social voting site for startup guys and hacker types. If enough users upvote a story within some time frame (and nothing more involved happens with the moderation), it goes to the front page. Simple as that, and has been discussed a…

Post by ethbro » Sat, May 09, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

bsanr2 wrote: post #17

papeda wrote: post #13

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Bonkers indeed. An interesting point of comparison is this "interview" with Prince, written over the course of months by the writer tapped to write his memoirs [1]. It seems that Prince and Little Richard both had an extravagant overflowing creative instinct that just...dazzled people. As someone whose personality tacks way more toward clear and consistent structured logic, it's interesting to see. [1] https://www.ne…

Having known people like this, I think it moves beyond instinct. They definitely have a more finely-tuned inborn sense of themselves and other people, for sure. But they also have developed a calculated and astute sense for what part of themselves to present to people provoke a particular emotional or behavioral response, and also the courage to present those parts (in Prince's case, occasionally quite literally and…

Post by tptacek » Sat, May 09, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

lisper wrote: post #14

pfarrell wrote: post #5

Little Richard’s induction of Otis Redding into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one of the best inductions ever. It’s a mess, in a good way. It’s unorganized. Richard talks more about himself, but it works and it’s pure Rock and Roll. RIP. He was a pioneer. Seriously, watch the first minute. It’s beautiful. https://youtu.be/YUvHBirr1PI

I never realized that Little Richard was gay until I saw that video. That led me to this: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7990551/richard-sexu... That piece also has some very interesting videos of LR performing in the 50s. The manifest racial segregation in those videos was the norm at the time but seems truly shocking today, at least to me.

Post by xoxoy » Sat, May 09, 2020, 10:40 PM UTC

Post by leoc » Sat, May 09, 2020, 11:21 PM UTC

seizethecheese wrote: post #23

I’m struggling to figure out how this is news that a hacker would find interesting. I certainly don’t. Celebrity death news is banal. If there has never been a front page article about someone’s lived actions, we should not have one upon their death.