Saturday 9

 

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (1987)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Gracie Slick challenges, "Let them say we're crazy!" Tell us about something you're glad you did, even though your friends or family may have advised you against it.

I don’t know if you all know the history of my relationship with Drew. We met in 1979, when I was 19 and he was 21.  We dated, broke up.  Got back together a few years later,  and then broke up again.  Got back together a third time, got married in 1987 and got a divorce 7 years later.  It was a messy, nasty divorce.  So everyone, including our two daughters, thought I was crazy when Drew and I reconciled in 2010.  

But that last reconciliation seems to have worked …

 

2) Slick is the lead singer of Jefferson Starship. This band got its start in 1965 as Jefferson Airplane but updated their name in 1974. Part of their reasoning was that by the 1970s, airplane travel was commonplace. In 2023, an estimated 820 million Americans flew domestically. When was your most recent flight? When is your next one?

We live on Long Island.  We took a Caribbean cruise in December 2022.  We sailed out of the Port of Tampa.  We have friends who live near Tampa, so we flew down a few days before the cruise to visit our friends, and flew home after the cruise. 

We were supposed to fly to Tampa earlier this month to visit those friends.  Unfortunately we had to cancel the trip because our friend’s mother passed away.  I’m not sure when we will rebook.

 
3) Songwriter Albert Hammond said the song was inspired by his divorce. After years of legal wrangling, he was finally free to marry his long-time, long-suffering girlfriend. They're still married today. What is something you waited a long time for? Was it worth the wait?

I didn’t become a mother until I was 30 years old.  Yes, it was definitely worth the wait.

 

4) Albert Hammond is perhaps best known as the one-hit wonder who sang, "It Never Rains in Southern California." Is rain expected where you are today?

It’s been rainy, wet and dreary for several days.  I’m hoping for sunshine on Sunday.

 

5) He co-wrote the song with Diane Warren. In January, she lost her home to the Los Angeles fires. When a friend is confronted by heartache or tragedy, what can you say or do for them? What shouldn't you say or do?

6) "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was the love theme to the romantic fantasy Mannequin. In that movie, a department store mannequin comes to life and falls for a struggling artist. While it was a moderate success at the box office, the gritty Vietnam drama Platoon was a much bigger hit. When you sit down to watch a movie, what genre would you prefer (fantasy, romance, comedy, drama, etc.)?

I like a variety of genres.  What I watch depends on my mood.

 
7) In 1987, when this song was popular, Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Aretha was proud of her Detroit roots. Have you been to Michigan? If yes, where did you go?

I’ve never been there.

 

8) In 1987, the Chevy Corvette made news by adding a low tire pressure light to its dashboard. When you're driving and a yellow warning light comes on, do you handle the issue promptly? Or is it something you'll get to when you get around to it?

I take care of it as soon as I can.

My daughter almost destroyed the beater car I bought her when she was a teen driver. The oil light came on, she ignored it.  I wouldn’t have known the car needed oil if I hadn’t borrowed her car when my own was in the shop.  It took two quarts of oil.

9) Random question: A magic mirror reflects your appearance five years from today. Would you look at it?

I’m curious but also scared.  Not sure what I’d do, but knowing is better than not knowing …

 

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