{"id":786,"date":"2012-04-19T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/?p=786"},"modified":"2012-04-19T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:12:07","slug":"lionel-richie-what-are-you-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2012\/04\/lionel-richie-what-are-you-doing.html","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie&#8230; What Are You Doing??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop and R&amp;B legend Lionel Richie has suddenly popped on the charts again. \u00a0I love me some Lionel, and have since his glory days in the &#8217;80s, so I was excited to see what he had going on.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I hadn&#8217;t. \u00a0Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Lionel Richie - Endless Love ft. Shania Twain\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bAqz0AwLRjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That is a video of Lionel performing his famous Diana Ross duet with&#8230; Shania Twain?? \u00a0Huh? \u00a0What are you doing Lionel?? \u00a0Why are you destroying one of your own hit songs by &#8220;updating&#8221; it and performing it with a far lesser singer than Diana Ross? \u00a0I don&#8217;t understand!!! \u00a0YOU&#8217;RE TEARING ME APART LIONEL!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/files\/2012\/04\/the-room3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-787 aligncenter\" title=\"the-room3\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/117\/2012\/04\/the-room3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really wish I had more in-depth commentary on this, but I am just confused. \u00a0People destroy other people&#8217;s songs all the time (see below), but to destroy your own song?? \u00a0Augh!! \u00a0It makes no sense!!!! \u00a0Maybe this is a Terminator-esque thing. \u00a0Maybe &#8220;Endless Love&#8221; takes over the world in the future so they sent Shania Twain back in time to put a stop to it. \u00a0Right, right?!?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, people are enjoying it??<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t take it, blog post over. \u00a0I would rather go watch this:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AZH4dRLZ20A\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AZH4dRLZ20A<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop and R&amp;B legend Lionel Richie has suddenly popped on the charts again. \u00a0I love me some Lionel, and have since his glory days in the &#8217;80s, so I was excited to see what he had going on. 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