Niki Harris Video on Madonna - What on Earth is This Twacked Out Bytch Going on About?

grrf, ggrrrf, Warren, grrr, Sean, grrr, Carlos....gggrrrrrf.

STFU - Bytch!

People ask me why I'm not all that into Niki Harris. There's a plethora of reasons. Here are a few.

Talking shyt about Jews being by Madonna's pool side at her house during the American Life era. Huh?

She would've gone on The ReInvention Tour if it wasn't the Regurgitation Tour? Whaaat?

People were going to BOO them off the Drowned World Tour? Huh?

Asking a magazine if this was a gay publication or a jazz publication because...whaaaaat?

Woman can't do a performance of one her songs (hahahhahahaha) without talking for 3 and half minutes of the 4 minute song. Huh?

All that drivel aside, there's this video. And this says it all.

Would anyone be interested if it wasn't for The Madonna Association?

No.

CATCH IT!!!

"I Know I'm Not the Best Singer..."

The Look of Jaded.

"I Know I'm Not the Best Singer..."

So, my friend and I were having a discussion about Barbra Streisand, who incidentally, like Madonna, said on Oprah yesterday that she never intended to be a singer. When I told him this he replied with, "Barbra's voice commanded her to sing while Madonna's did not". He followed with, "even Madonna recognizes that." I couldn't disagree more. Since Madonna's inception, I've always preferred her live singing voice. While everyone was freaking out over the Who's That Girl Tour vocals in 1987 (which they now herald and want her to return to), I was stating how fabulous they were.

So, Listen Up fans, Madonna said that now legendary quote because that Horrid Heifer Harris was sitting on her bed, glaring at her all jaded-like and it was said so when Madonna left the room, that backstabbing crow couldn't let her have it. Oh, Donna girl, did you get a load of what she said? Grrrrl, you know I sing better, she be nails, why she up there and not me? Madonna axed that shyt out before it could ever be said.

Madonna leaves people with no place to go, so they end up jaded, like that awful Niki Harris - who doesn't know if she's talking to a gay or jazz magazine.

Here's Madonna doing what Niki Harris (or Barbra, for that matter) could never.

CATCH IT!!!

They arrested Bobby Brown for fucking on stage...They arrested Bobby Brown for fucking on stage...(repeat 8 times)

1990 with Luis, (no) Jose and Niki Harris

^ Sock'n it.

Niki, Madonna and Carlton.

Videos That Rocked The World: The 'Citizen Kane' of music videos - Like a Prayer.

The year was 1989. For fans, Madonna had taken a very long hiatus. Very long being a year and half but back then it felt like an eternity! Anyone that lived through it knows what I'm talking about. Although she had filmed a new movie, Howard Brookner's Bloodhounds of Broadway and was extremely busy doing her first Broadway run of David Mamet's Speed the Plow, there was very little media output from Our Lady from late '87 to early '89. Basically, all we got were paparazzi pictures of her coming and going from Speed the Plow, an Entertainment Tonight coverage piece of the play, rumors of divorce from Sean Penn and the relationship with Sandra Bernhard. After her Who's That Girl world tour in 1987, she told Spin Magazine that she was burnt out on music and the music video medium.

Spin magazine article early 1988 - Madonna not feeling the music landscape and about to come in and funk things up.

There was a written piece on her in the now defunct Fame magazine in late 1988 written by novelist Harry Crews, and it was in there that she dropped the name of her new album, Like a Prayer. I remember thinking, Is she kidding? Like a Virgin, Like a Prayer? After hearing her discontentment with music and video, I was kind of like, On no, its going to be horrible. She's over music and over videos and the last taste in our mouth was the Who's That Girl video. Although that is one of my favorite Madonna looks, it is, in my opinion, one of her worst videos. But then about 6 months later the Like a Prayer song and video were released and my initial thoughts were immediately eradicated. Obviously. She came back with a vengeance and with one of the greatest songs ever written and recorded in the history of popular music and with a video that put all others to shame. The greatest and most controversial video ever made. The Citizen Kane of music videos. Never doubt the woman.

Here is the program Videos that Rocked the World from 2007 - which discusses in length not only the brilliant video but also the Pepsi commercial and all the influence and controversy it caused. With commentaries from the video's director - the brilliant Mary Lambert, producer Sharon Oreck, co-star Leon Robinson, the awful, back stabbing horrible and hypocritical Niki Harris, cinematographer Steve Poster and a slew of others.

So without further ado here is the program, Videos That Rocked the World, analyzing the greatest video ever made, Like a Prayer.



Fighting for the National Endowment of the Arts

1989 APLA Dance-a-Thon Footage

APLA dance-a-thon. February 26, 1989

niki harris on madonna - Thursday Apr 16, 2009

After two decades as Madonna’s back-up singer, you’d think Niki Haris might be tired of corsets.

Shrugging off that familiar wardrobe piece is a poignant image when you consider how long Haris’ notoriety has been linked to her career as Madonna’s back-up vocalist, dancer, touring partner, and - as glimpsed in Madge’s racy tour documentary Truth or Dare, anyway - close friend and confidante. Yes, she has loaned her pipes to any number of the pop queen’s hits ("Like a Prayer" and "Vogue," for instance), but to fans Haris was never a faceless, interchangeable back-up singer. She was an integral and highly visible part of Team Madonna.

Today, she’s ready to chat about her latest club single, "Bad, Bad Boy," a collaboration with DJ/producer duo (and Rhode Island born gay brothers), The Perry Twins. But she knows there will always be some obligatory ground to cover about her time spent with one of contemporary music’s biggest gay icons, and she’s okay with that. In fact, it’s actually Haris who drops the M-word first.

"Now, which publication is this for again?" asks Haris, rifling through a mental Rolodex.

It’s for Bay Windows, I remind her. A gay paper.

"Oh, yes!" she recalls. "You know, I always have to remind myself who I’m talking to. But I always know when I’m doing a jazz interview, because they never ask about Madonna." :rolleyes: (watch out sarah vaughan :lol: )

She laughs. We’ll ask, and she’ll tell. To start: why the fallout? Diva drama?
"Maybe there was some drama, but I didn’t buy into it. We were sisters for years," says Haris. "At the end of the day, really she [Madonna] is a gem and I’m so grateful."


"She threw my baby shower for me!" adds Haris, who gave birth to her daughter in 2003. It was shortly thereafter that Madonna launched her Re-Invention Tour, the first time she staged a show without Haris in over 15 years.

"People can talk all the crap they want, but we both knew by that last tour [Drowned World, 2001]," says Haris. "I had broken my legs, learned how to walk again, how to dance again, and did that tour with really bad injuries. It was okay, but painful. Now, I was 41 and pregnant. ... Of course, my ego was involved: ’Oh, she don’t want me no more!’ But at the end of the day, she gave me the greatest gift. Because of her, I got to spend every freaking day with my kid, doing the music I love to do. I’m close to ’the family’ still. She knows I love her and she loves me."

Coincidentally, Madonna’s last two tours have featured similarly named singer Nicki Richards as a backing vocalist. Haris doesn’t mind.

"She can get Niki Two, if she wants to," she chuckles.

Since parting ways, Haris has been more free than ever to pursue her own work.

see you at the next gay pride, niki harris!!!!