Because some of us called it out -- and one female artist made it known she was about to sue -- CRAPAPEDIA backed off of that s**t.
But so much s**t still exists.
That's Natalie Cole. The late Natalie Cole.
When she died (December 31, 2015), her obits were about her 70s pop hits and a Bruce Springsteen's hit in the late 80s, "Unforgettable" with her late father Nat King Cole and maybe "Miss You."
The problem with that was that it ignored Natalie's real career. The idiots who wrote her up did so based on CRAPAPEDIA.
Even today, years later, that's still what you'll find.
You won't find any mention of "Dangerous" as a successful single.
But it was. It made it to number sixteen on BILLBOARD's R&B charts. That's a hit single.
It's not a hit single in the White, White, White world of CRAPAPEDIA. But that's the world, please remember that called Michelle Phillips, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell and so many other women sluts because they weren't virgins. That wasn't all that long ago.
Maybe CRAPAPEDIA can move past their White, White, White world?
If they did, they'd realize that the woman called the new Aretha Franklin the seventies was always going to be more successful on the R&B charts. Despite the myth that 1987's EVERLASTING was 'the' comeback for Natlie Cole, 1985's DANGEROUS was the comeback.
CRAPAPEDIA doesn't note "Dangerous" in the webpage for the album of the same name -- not that it reached number 16, not even that it was a single. In fact, they only note one single:
Though the song "A Little Bit of Heaven" only reached number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100,[3] it was used as a recurring love theme for Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo on the television soap opera Santa Barbara.[4][5]
Only reached number 81?
Well the whole world never revolved around pop music. And on the soul charts, Natalie Cole took "A Little Bit of Heaven" much higher.
Peaked at #28 on 9.14.1985
It and "Dangerous" are among her hits -- regardless of what pop radio chose to play.
In a better world, an obituary writer for USA TODAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES, VOX or what have you would know better than to treat CRAPAPEDIA as a definitive source -- especially when
writing an obituary for an artist of color. But apparently we have to remind people yet again that
we call it -- and have called it since this site started -- CRAPAPEDIA and do so for good reason.
Natalie Cole charted 33 singles on BILLBOARD's R&B, Hip-Hop, Soul, Urban chart (the name has constantly changed) -- 26 times she made it into the top forty -- six of those times, she made it to number one.
