Jody Watley

The look is called Banji.

Is she a lezzy?

Jody Watley follows me on Instagram.

Had this Watley banger on 45" in 8th grade, bitches

Troll. No one gives a fuck about this one hit wonder/nobody from the 80s. Get stuffed, OP.

Such a great song, R4

OP It's like you've read my mind, I've been banging "Still a Thrill" non-stop for the past two weeks. It's a recent obsession as I remember being underwhelmed by it when it first came out. It's really something, though -- funky with pop hooks in just the right places. Do we know who the male dancer in the video is?

Jody deserved more time in the spotlight. Those first two albums still sound fantastic.

Wrong R5 troll... As I said, I can't remember any other female pop star from back then that was so greatly emulated like Jody was other than Madonna. Jody is exceptionally beautiful and natural, so I can understand why girls wanted to look like her.

She was also so great in Shalamar

I accidentally bought the dance remix from BMG music club ("8 albums for 1 penny!") and thought something was wrong with my cassette the first time I played it.

R9 it broke my babygay heart when I found out that Shalamar were not really friends, and broke up acrimoniously.

Check out the dancing!

Her vocals on this track are like delicious froth.

I used to play this album over and over when I was in junior high.

She was much better as a solo act.

R3 I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUU.

R5 You need serious help. Your post history screams "desperate for attention" - wow

She did one GREAT song that still holds up today which was on a fairly decent album (Jody Watley 1987) - but that was it. She was virtually unknown after that album. Seems like a nice lady and she looks fantastic too. Image at link from September 2022.

But nobody ever emulated her OP. What a very tall story you tell!

Sorry but it's the truth. Other than Madonna I can't think of any other pop singer that half the girls dressed like. Jody was absolutely stunning and girls wanted to look like her.

You're out of your mind R17.

Watley was stunning yes and still is stunning - but nobody dressed like her.

The way she dressed was a popular style at the time. She didn't invent it as a personal "brand". She just wore the current fashion. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.

R7 - his name is Tyrone Proctor

I love how people on here tell you something you know as a fact. Half the girls in my school immediately started dressing like her. Perm, skirts, hoops and all. Are you that far up your own fucking ass you can't see past your own view. Whether it was popular at the time, these girls in my school purposely took their influence from her. I am actually flipping through my yearbook. her influence mass massive in the Boston area at that time. Not only in the schools but the clubs.

R20 = 😂...

R19 thank you!

R20 More than a few girls in my high school had their "Jody Watley hoops" -- and they called them just that.

I found out on a podcast that her “Hasta la vista, baby” in “looking for a new love” came before Terminator. The move copied her line, same cadence and all.

She and Bananarama were the only women on Band Aid's "Do They Know it's Christmas".

R23 also = 😂...

This thread is hilarious!

Did Back to the Future or Aliens take anything from Jody R23? I'll bet they did!

Jody Watley sold more records than Janet Jackson AND Madonna combined.

I thought Jody Watley was going for Sade's look in the "Real Love" video, specifically the black and white sequences where she's sporting the long ponytail. She even seems to be channeling her mannerisms, like when she's looking down and to the side, all sad and mournful. She really looks very similar to her.

When it first came out, I had the TV on with the sound off, because I was doing something else. I looked up at the screen for a couple of seconds and thought "oh, new Sade. Cool." It wasn't until I paid closer attention that I realized it wasn't a new Sade video, but a new one by Jody.

Loved her on Soul Train

R27.

So much prettier than Janet, even before the mutilated nose disaster. If that's where you want to take my thread, I'll go there.

And nobody was dressing like Pineapple Jackson.

R31 I think she’s prettier too because she just looks natural. And her skin doesn’t look bleached either, another common household product of the Jacksons. Janet did have a beautiful smile though. I won’t front. She is Whitney Houston pretty, with a more exotic look. Is she West Indian?

[quote] Is she West Indian?

Nope. African American from Chicago. She kinda looks like Thelma from Good Times in this picture from 1977.

Jody’s fade away years lasted a few albums. One of my friends really liked her. I don’t remember any of it but didn’t dislike it. Maybe Toni Braxton replaced her?

David Fincher directed the real love video. She had 6 top 10 hits in the late 80s and number ones on the r&b and dance charts not too bad.

For years she wanted nothing to do with shalimar and hates/hated Jeffrey Daniel and Howard Hewitt with a passion. She bought the shalimar name in 2014 and can’t help but think that was a huge fuck you to them.

R35 Haha it’s funny how popular artists who never moved past their eras, are viewed. Two very different r&b artists. Jody did dance pop, Toni did ballads midtempo and slow jams hugely popular in the 90s. Jody also had supermodel looks. Toni became a sex kitten after the plastic surgery.

[quote]She did one GREAT song that still holds up today which was on a fairly decent album (Jody Watley 1987) - but that was it. She was virtually unknown after that album.

WTF???

"Looking for a New Love"

"Don't You Want Me"

"Some Kind of Lover"

"Most of All"

"Real Love"

"Friends" (featuring Eric B. & Rakim)

"Everything"

"I Want You"

"I'm the One You Need"

"Your Love Keeps Working on Me"

"When a Man Loves a Woman"

I interviewed Jody in the late '90s and her people were emphatic that there were to be "NO questions about Shalimar!"

People only remember "Looking for a New Love" R38.

Don't mention Shalamar on her Facebook page - she will go OFF!

Jody invented hoop earrings and hair.

She and Sade had a similar look and style. I do remember girls emulating the look with the hoop earrings and jeans / pants bunched up at the waist. It was a nice, clean look (hair pulled back).

Jody invented hair R43.

Beautiful but didn’t have much of a voice. Definitely similar to Janet in that “talk through a song” way.

Yeah, R42 & R43. pretending to be me. I should have added "only the girls that could pull off her look" which was a lot. She probably wasn't big in the one-room schoolhouse inbred towns of yore.

Poor, fat Damita and her saddlebags could never.

[quote] I won’t front.

Are you sure?

Wasn't her sister a porn star?

Jody invented sisters R48.

We used to call her "Jody Wobbly", due to her inability to stay on key in the studio.

R28 - you perhaps mean “sequins”?

Real Love was my favorite song.

R1 that's interesting, thanks.

Seems to be a Nuyorican-origin trend out of the ball/drag scene.

One of my favorites from the Red Hot & Blue album. Fun video. She looks gorgeous and is all in as the cabaret singer.

She should do a set of standards as a comeback.

New Sirius XM show:

R37 No. Her later albums were ballad heavy. I remember that much. Babyface -ish (Toni was a babyface girl) I looked Jody up - her last hit was with - wait for it! - Babyface.

Still a Thrill is the only tune I appreciate from this performer. The video is memorable too. She has long, doe eyes, a unique beauty trait.