Dionne Warwick was asked if Beyonce is the greatest singer of all time...

How dare she?

Why does she have to be a.....heartbreaker?

luv her

known as one of the meanest cunts in the biz

she will cut u u look at her cross eyed!

rage on girl!

She’s absolutely right.

Wait? She's back in the US? I though she was on the lam to Brazil because she owed the IRS millions. Why is she just walking around? President Trump needs to get on to delinquent taxpayers.

She’s right. Beyonce is a performer. Her voice is nothing special.

Beyoncé is a soulless product who mimes at presidential inaugurations.

I have more respect for Dionne now.

Beyonce is good at what she does (entertaining morons), but she’s not the greatest singer of all time. Not remotely.

What a stupid question.

I’d say Ella Fitzgerald was.

Was the paparazzi guy a DLer?

why are people even considering a question like this? beyonce is not the greatest singer of all time - nor even close. millenials, please get your heads out of your asses already...

That whole family is ghetto trash with money. But then, so is Beyonce.

Ella Fitzgerald has a voice like cream being poured. A true talent.

But I'd have to say that Celine Dion is probably the best vocalist around today. I'm not a fan and I only like a few of her songs but she can sing perfectly live, almost like a recording. She uses her voice like musical instrument.

I lost all respect for her though when seeing her perform at some hideous patriotic military themed concert. She was marching around the stage like an Uncle Sam soldier. Shame.

Ugh, I was so late to the Ella party, but I agree that she's arguably the best pop/jazz singer of all time.

Celine of the big three (her Whitney and Mariah) is one of the best technical vocalists. And Celine can sing perfectly live...

etta james dammit!

Why didn't Dionne say herself?

[quote]Why didn't Dionne say herself?

She's not delusional. Her name is Dionne, not Donald.

You mean Sealion Dion r13. Honk, honk.

R18, I am here to listen. Teach me your ways.

Sinead O’Connor, end of story. If you only know of Nothing Conpare 2 U, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

Hell, Dolores is a better singer than Beyoncé.

Ella, Sarah Vaughn, Toni Tennille, Streisand, Barbara Cook, Whitney Houston...any one of them superior to Beyonce.

[quote] That whole family is ghetto trash with money. But then, so is Beyonce.

"Ghetto" because . . . why exactly?

Do you also use that term to describe whites that you don't like?

Its nice to be able to get on your white supremacist high horse about black celebrities, who are so much more successful than you. Isn't it? They maybe a million times more talented, more driven, and more successful, but they'll never have the white skin pedigree. So you definitely 1 upped them there.

Bewigged is a pussy-popper, not a singer.

Asking La Warwick if Beyoncé is the greatest singer of all time is like asking Dave Chapelle if Gallagher is the greatest comedian of all time.

Paparazzi ask leading questions trying to start shit and get it on film. Miss Warwick handled it perfectly (including the question about the black Trump supporter).

And I love the fact that she used the classic 'have a good day' to shut him down. Dummy.

Why didn't she say Whitney in her prime.

Isn't this question an insult to Dionne. Wouldn't she be considered top of the list.

Beyonce isn't even in the top 1000.

No one can define "greatest singer," so the point is moot

Whitney was not better than Ella Fitzgerald, either. She was a top contender at one time, yes, but Warwick was right on the money. Not to mention that she'd look biased if she named her cousin.

I should get some credit -- no one made Whitney sing like I did.

Beyonce isn't even in the top ten.

[Quote]Why didn't Dionne say herself?

She didn't need to - it's a known fact that she's one of the best singers of all time. Her 60s repetoire is legendary in its excellence.

Dionne's 60s stuff in incredible. She's a crazy old bitch now, but back then she was IT.

Her beauty really bloomed in the 80's.

Is there already a thread about her best songs? Couldn't find one via search

She's lucky she's a Black woman. If a Black man, or a white woman, or -- God forbid -- a white man had said that, Twitter would be ablaze with hot takes about how we all fail to recognize Beyoncé as the greatest artist since man started to paint on cave walls due to "misogynoir".

Mirror, mirror on the wall,

Who's the greatest singer of them all..........?

Judy Garland was a singer's singer - Aretha Franklin said that she had no peer.

Aretha also said, 'Beyonce, who?' after that Grammy performance where Beyonce referred to Tina as the queen of soul. I love you, Auntie Ree-Ree, but GURL!

Someone spray the Beyhive!!! They’re trying to take over Datalounge!!!

LOL R41

Sarah Vaughn, Linda Ronstadt, Maria Callas, Linda Thompson....

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Adele. I don’t think she’s the greatest singer of all time either, but she’s a lot better than Beyonce, and of contemporary of hers as well. Beyonce doesn’t hold a candle to Adele. Whitney, Barbra, Celine, Aretha, Patti LaBelle and Karen Carpenter are all much better singers than Beyonce as well. Hell, Christina Aguilera, Pink and Kelly Clarkson are better singers. Ella Fitzgerald is probably the greatest.

I want my Maria Callas as a hologram concert!!

Leontyne Price, Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland

All hail Dionne!

The interviewer is a complete and utter moron. "What would Beyonce have to do to become the greatest singer of all time?"?????

What the fuck does that even mean?

[quote] Judy Garland was a singer's singer - Aretha Franklin said that she had no peer.

Aretha said that Judy had no peer IN HER GENRE. Aretha certainly considered Ella, Dinah Washington, Clara Ward and Mahalia Jackson to be better singers than Judy. I think Aretha -- and many, many others -- believe that she (Aretha) is a better singer than Judy.

He was trying to bait her onto the TMZ propaganda train.

Shades of Ukraine going on around here these days.

Divide divide divide!

R12 Fuck off you racist piece of shit

R12 Just came from a thread about Marilyn Monroe being classy by you insult Dionne's family. White hypocrisy at its finest

Whitney Houston is the greatest. Followed by Sarah Vaugn. Fuck Ella

Shouldn’t choice of material be taken into account? Celine might be a fine technical singer, but if the songs are boring, who cares?

R5 starting with himself, of course.....

Beyawnce is not even top 10 of all time!!

R54 Celine isn't even a fine technical singer, she sounds annoying. Hearing Whitney get compared to Dion is more upsetting than slurs

"Whitney Houston is the greatest. Followed by Sarah Vaugn. Fuck Ella"

Actually, why don't you fuck yourself, you tin-eared, junkie-worshiping twat?

Dionne Warwick was an artist who expressed emotion through her vocals. Beyonce, although a technically superior vocalist, lacks emotion. Her voice either takes a backseat to the beats (all of her most famous tracks are heavy on club beats) or leaves the listener totally cold. Mariah was one of the few vocalists who could sing with great emotion but also was technically one of the greatest singers ever. Whiteny too. To be fair to be Beyonce, none of her contemporaries could match what those women did in their prime. Ariana Grande is a shining example of how a technically great vocalist could still be an average singer.

Christina is another singer that leaves me cold but could still showed some glimmers of promise. The only two singers I could think of who sings with great emotion today are Pink and Sia.

Beyonce is not even the best when it comes to delivering uptempo tracks. Rihanna is way better for that.

I was trying to hold my toke smoke in, otherwise I'd have said, "Fuck as hell no."

And it's not because she's a lesbian.

Curly IS the greatest singer of all time. When he sang opera/soprano he blew the roof right off the house. He can't be beat!

Agreed

How long ago did Miss Dionne make these comments? This is like the perfect opening for an episode of Got 2B Real! lol

R51/R52 demonstrate confusion about what racism is.

"Ghetto trash" is not racist. It is simply incorrect, because neither Dionne or Beyonce (piece of shit that she is) were from the "ghetto."

Your desire to "protect" people based on your preferences for an imagined underclass is racist. No one needs your missionary/falsely accusing posing.

Cunts.

[quote] /[R52] demonstrate confusion about what racism is. "Ghetto trash" is not racist. It is simply incorrect, because neither Dionne or Beyonce (piece of shit that she is) were from the "ghetto." Your desire to "protect" people based on your preferences for an imagined underclass is racist. No one needs your missionary/falsely accusing posing. Cunts. —Biracial, and I know the ghetto and am not afraid of it

1. It's incorrect.

2. What is the intention behind the comment? Why label 2 people from middle and upper middle class families as "ghetto".

I thinks that's the part that you (despite your "biracial" bona fides) are missing. Its a stereotypes that bigots use to demonize racial minorities, regardless of what that minority's socioeconomic status and background may be.

Your comments makes absolutely no sense.

Thank YOU DIONNE. Bey is as lame as it comes. It was extra nice of Dionne not to laugh or guffaw, cause she probably wanted to. Whitney at the top of her game topped every one, love Ella - limmmiiitted range, but could really work a lyric like nobody’s business. What is with that Celine Bot typing her name over and again?

It took a very ignorant person to ask Dionne this question.

[quote]I’m surprised no one has mentioned Adele.

Uh, there's a reason for that. She has about a five note range.

I don't thnk even Beyonce would call herself that. Of all time? Please. So many others who arguably can claim that. Whitney, Ella, Sarah Vaughan, Judy, Karen Carpenter, Gladys, Barbra, Aretha etc. Was she asked the question in jest?

I watched every second of the clip at r35 even though I hadn’t planned to. Absolutely transfixed. Such class, poise and presence. All so effortless. Disturbing though how she’s the only black person in that room.

Well, she's in Belgium, in the '60s, so it's not surprising. People forget the extreme segregation that existed all throughout the West even a few short decades ago.

This is a haunting performance by a brilliant young artist.

Dionne's got your number, hussy.