scribegrrrl.com » Vanessa Williams http://www.scribegrrrl.com Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:52:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 supreme beings of mode magazine http://www.scribegrrrl.com/2008/07/supreme-beings-of-mode-magazine/ http://www.scribegrrrl.com/2008/07/supreme-beings-of-mode-magazine/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:44:00 +0000 scribegrrrl http://www.scribegrrrl.com/?p=4 I love the Supreme Beings of Leisure. I have been listening to their latest album, 11i, all week. I’d forgotten how awesome they are (and yes, they still sound like an episode of Alias, but is that a bad thing?).


But today my ears have been pricked by something startling: I have realized that lead Supreme Being singer Geri Soriano sounds like Vanessa Williams. Now all I can think about is that “Flying” train wreck from this year’s TV Land Awards (which, btw, what are those awards about, exactly, other than a rather morbid brand of nostalgia?).

Get off my groove, Wilhelmina!

Supreme Being Geri even sorta looks like Willie, doesn’t she? A teensy bit.

Geri. Great, now I’m thinking of Cousin Geri from The Facts of Life. Save me from this pop-culture-association spiral.

At least nothing can sully that phenomenal bass line on SBL’s “This World.” Or the general brilliance of “Strangelove Addiction,” from their eponymous debut album:

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