Blind Items Revealed #16 - Anniversary Month
September 30, 2013
This mogul is A list. It seems like sometimes you can't escape his name in this town. He built his name by destroying others who got in his way and those people he just didn't like. He's still that way but this is about the woman who he destroyed because of his own personal vendetta that was wholly imagined. The problem he has to this day is he never admits when he is wrong. It's pretty tough to have any one like you or be your friend if you are unwilling to admit you are wrong.
This all started a few years ago. At the time this celebrity/singer was A+ list. She was on the top of the charts and the top of the world and was selling millions of records. At her peak she abruptly decided to switch record labels. The label she switched to was owned by our jerk mogul who fired the singer's producer and told her all of her new songs she was recording were awful. They weren't.
Shortly after he signed her to his label the two got into an argument because he didn't believe she was tolerant of other people. Time and again she had proven otherwise but now the mogul had it in his mind that she wasn't and leaked false stories to newspapers and magazines that the singer was using slurs against a group of people. Our singer started to sue the mogul but he paid her off and she went away barely to be heard from ever again. Meanwhile, those songs that were so awful? He gave them to the singer who always covered for him and it relaunched her career and gave her a string of number one songs.
David Geffen/Donna Summer/Cher
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The early/ mid 1980's were 'a few years ago'? Plus Donna's time was pretty much up...disco was passé by this point.
I knew it!!! It totally explains her whole "AIDS is God's curse to the gays" blowout that destroyed her career shortly after she joined Geffen records. Of course Cher being David's hag would revel in the rewards. Poor Donna I hopekarma bites DG in the ass
And now she is dead and he is as powerful as ever. Karma, I guess,
Happy african american (n word) friday to the other commenters, anyway.
The great thing about KARMA is that it may not be today, tomorrow or even a year, it may be 30 years from now when your douchery turns into your comeuppance
I always thought that was bullshit because her disco fan base was largely gay.
Is Cher aware of how she got the songs/career boost?
Wow. What a story.
He's only lucky bcuz he has money.
He's always been fecal covered faggot. Remember his shock when the Eagles decided they weren't going to let him rip them off? How nasty he was to Don Henley? Scumbag
I'm just getting into these reveals and this one (first one I read) devastates me. How could he? Anyway I'm working my way through these reveals backwards and I see MV is coming up. I'm gonna need a cocktail or three!
@Whatever, to Enty,back in the day means five years, a few years is twenty +years. Chers comeback was in the eighties, much of it due to MtV and the Ritchie Sambora connection.
But sometimes back in the day is <12 months. Tryring to figure out how Enty measures time is as pointless as his personal opinion ratings.
So the reveals are over?
Poor Donna. Lot of talent. She could have done more than disco. RIP
He always seems to lure artists (probably the ones he has a vendetta against) to his label then bury them. They take the bait every time.
Is there any record executive/mogul who isn't a complete POS?
I personally think Donna Summer's hits far outweigh Cher's in many ways if not in volumes sold.
Donna Summer died a legend as will Cher.
Donna Summer was the Queen of Disco. Period.
This guy is a p.o.s
What a baby he is, ruining someone's career
1) Geffen has to be A+. An asshole, but he started 2 huge labels from scratch, then co-founded Dreamworks.
2) Summer left Casablanca on bad terms, alleging that Neil Bogart had stolen millions from her.
3) she did leave Giorgio Moroder for Quincy Jones (producer switch) at Geffen.
4) She had a big hit after leaving Geffen (This Time I Know Its For Real).
Karma is that, for better or worse, you have to live with yourself.
Doesn't matter. She had an amazing voice. She could have sung anything.
I had to check and make sure, but she also had one of the biggest hits of her career - "She Works Hard For The Money"- -after leaving Geffen.
And the song Cher ended up recording - If I Could Turn Back Time?
So Donna Summer allegedly made her anti- gay remarks in 1083. Cher's next significant hit was 'I found someone' in 1987...a song previously recorded by Laura Branigan. I cannot see Summer being remotely interested in the song, nor 'If I could turn back time' in 1989.
Sorry but don't believe this blind.
Summer made her remarks in
1983 lol.
Some of this is true some is hyperboil. Donna Summer is a disco legend.
Geffen is literally a self made man who also brought in new talent to both music movies and business.
Currently he does not support certain charities. But he saved many lives by his support for the Aids Relief Charities.
So for the shit headed bigots that post these crap blinds ask yourself what have you achieved?
Except the duet with Streisand. Girl was out of her element trying to keep up with Mrs. Brolin.
Well that's disappointing. I thought the reveals were supposed to continue for 6-7 hours.
This reveal day was seriously underwhelming. Happy anniversary anyway, enty.
Maybe the reason the blinds ended early is all the doubting and complaining about the content. JFC, if you don't like them, stay away. I thought they were great. Thanks Enty!
+1
Thank you Enty for posting 7 days a week and entertaining me everyday. This site has been my brain candy relief now for some time. And thanks for the MV reveal...i had a feeling it was the A list everything in her mind! Your real life stories are the best...i see memoirs in your future. Love and Bacon martinis to you! (Tips hat in thanks)
@bitch/moan. Where did all the whiners come from? The all day reveals are on New years day. I think. Good job Enty
It's SO GOOD. OMGZ.
@MysticChic +1000 I agree completely! Thanks Enty for the fab reveals
+2 on the @mistic chick remarks,
Thank Enty for the reviles!
Love and bacon ice cream
I enjoyed the reveals. They were great. But on Thursday, he promised 6-7 hours of it, which he didn't follow through on. If it's complaining, so be it, but it's also the truth
Cher had another huge comeback in the nineties with "Believe" in 1998, followed by "Strong Enough" and "We All Sleep Alone," all of which were dance-oriented and all of which could EASILY have given Donna Summer the comeback she wanted.
This fits them.
Remember Cher's dance album/single, "Believe," in the late nineties? I think that's what he's referring to.
Me either, except I don't believe it because both Cher and Donna were too talented and popular to have their careers hanging on Geffen's whim.
Not to mention, Cher has never been anybody's "second pick".
I call B.S. x 2
But is David Geffen as big an asshole as Dr. Luke?
@Zilla , those songs do work for Donna, maybe they were written earlier. I wonder if any recordings of Donna doing them
No, it wasn't Cher's "Believe" era. That came later in yet another musical resurgence. I'm not sure I totally buy what Enty's saying, because Cher's Geffen years saw her transition from a pop artist to a rock artist. Would Donna Summer's voice have succeeded in that genre like Cher's did? Hard to say, but maybe Geffen honestly didn't think the songs that eventually went to Cher would work for Donna Summer.
From Wikipedia: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher)
1987–1992: Film stardom, third musical comeback
In 1987, Cher signed with Geffen Records and revived her musical career with what music critics Johnny Danza and Dean Ferguson describe as "her most impressive string of hits to date", establishing her as a "serious rock and roller ... a crown that she'd worked long and hard to capture".
...her first Geffen album, Cher, was certified platinum by the RIAA.It features the rock ballad "I Found Someone", her first U.S. top-ten single in more than eight years.
Cher's 19th studio album Heart of Stone (1989) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The music video for its second single, "If I Could Turn Back Time".
Further songs from Heart of Stone to reach the U.S. top ten were "After All", a duet with Peter Cetera, and "Just Like Jesse James".
Cher's final studio album for Geffen Records, Love Hurts (1991), stayed at number one in the UK for six weeks and produced the UK top-ten single "Love and Understanding".
Cher's last album for Geffen Record, Love Hurts, was released in 1991. Not sure I buy what Enty says about Cher's Geffen era because all her Geffen projects were classified rock music, a departure from her previous pop and disco releases, and not something I can easily imagine would have showcased Summer's superior vocal talent.
+1 This. I think Enty is either mistaken, or fudging the 'facts' again.
The rock music Cher recorded for Geffen wouldn't have done much to showcase Donna Summer's wonderful vocal talent. Two entirely different singers and styles.
Donna summer >>> cher. Better singer better songs. 'I feel love' one of the greatest and most influential songs ever.
Those songs were recorded from 1998 and beyond.
Cher's final Geffen album was released in 1991.
None of the rock songs Cher recorded for Geffen would have highlighted Summer's amazing vocal talent.
I have to agree with you there. None of the rock songs Cher recorded for Geffen would have highlighted Summer’s amazing vocal talent imo.
Thank you for the great reveals! Appreciate all the hard work and good gossip you provide us with everyday. Happy Holidays to you!
It wasn't Kitty Karma who bit him in the ass. It was one of his many butt boys who infected him with every STD in the book. He is just another Reptilian from the Synagogue of Satan!
You're a piece of sh!t. But I'm sure you already know that and your racial slurs are supposed to make you feel good about yourself. It's always those who can't measure that put down other races in the mistaken idea it somehow makes them look better.
Your words mean nothing to me because I am what you would give up your fortune to be--a WASP. You still have one foot in the Polish ghetto. No class. No manners. Full of hatred toward anyone who isn't Jewish. Your media hold has already started to disappear. Now all America knows what I have known for years---you are the people of the lie. Every word out of your mouth is an untruth. Call me any name you want, in the end, we will triumph. There are a billion of us. How many millions are there from your tribe? Burn Israel burn.
Recorded in 1998. Meaning she could have held on to them for years until then. All it says is that he gave them to her. And the songs on Believe, three of which hit #1 on various charts, were very dancey and would have worked for Donna Summer.
"Meanwhile, those songs that were so awful? He gave them to the singer who always covered for him and it relaunched her career and gave her a string of number one songs."
All that means is that he gave them to Cher. Doesn't mean she immediately recorded them. The songs on Believe were very much in line with Donna's genre. Believe went to #1, Strong Enough also was a #1, on the dance charts, and All Or Nothing was ALSO a #1 dance song for her.
And Cher went back to dance music (Donna's field) with Believe. She very well could have held on to songs that did not fit into the rock album she recorded under Geffen, but saved them for that 1998 album. All he did was give her the songs. And there were three #1 songs off that album. Not out of the realm of possibility.
Cher didn't write or own the songs she recorded, so they weren't hers to take with her or hold on to for nearly a decade. I understand your logic regarding this, but it's not how the music industry operates. I only researched Believe specifically. It wasn't written until well after Cher left Geffen records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song)
Just to be clear, when Enty says Geffen 'gave' Cher songs, he means that figuratively - 'provided' might be a better word, but either way the songs Cher had access to record via Geffen does not infer that ownership of those songs transferred to her. Particularly in the case of unrecorded songs, the people who write/own them want to make money off them, and are not going to just allow them to collect dust for years hoping one particular singer someday decides to record them.
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