Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

Check out @cameronscheetz’s review of Joel Thurm’s Sex, Drugs & Pilot Season https://t.co/19QaVunQfM. Saw Thurm w/ @Andy on @BravoWWHL, but they didn’t get into any of this 🫖. I will be reading for deets on my biggest old Hollywood crush ➡️. https://t.co/YGOYWsrkCp https://t.co/0gQDbAvPeV

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

That point is one of my fave parts of @carlzoilus’ book: Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste https://t.co/qfM4TIdWim https://t.co/n32z8X3MgR https://t.co/ZPYCwoqq39

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This is one of the few songs where I prefer the original to his cover, but then, I grew up w/ this album on heavy, repeated rotation. Brenda Russell - "If Only For One Night" https://t.co/PlJoUoib4r Also loved when No I.D. chopped the beat... Janet Jackson - "Do It To Me"… https://t.co/TrcIDgHQqU https://t.co/y7f5zD0SMm

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

It’s wonderful seeing #TheVelvetRope get so much anniversary love, bc many people were not feeling it upon release. These RS headlines say it all. Also, you should check out the cover story by @davidritz. He set the bar for how to write about Janet https://t.co/broiKOBqDk https://t.co/YJ006qrDCi

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I never want it to he perceived that I'm dissing Ms. Thelma Houston, so here are my 4 fave club joints by her: 1) "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (12" Mix)" https://t.co/xV7BM3O4lL 2) "Fantasy & Heartbreak (Latin Rascals 12") https://t.co/NnoVmZWy4o 3) "You Used To Hold Me So… https://t.co/MrCGm0bh0m https://t.co/tr9H7p90ys

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

“The hero of this drama is Black people…this hero almost never wins. But we still get to be the heroes of all true American stories simply because we are indestructible.” - @michaelharriot from Four Hundred Souls ed. by @DrIbram & @KeishaBlain https://t.co/F9L5vUQHHI

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

.@danamo's SHINE BRIGHT is the clap back that Black women in pop have needed since rock criticism was born.

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

#NowReading Andrew Holleran's The Kingdom Of Sand. It's devastating me w/ every word in the most beautiful way. He writes my ❤️ Also, Dancer From The Dance is one of the best novels to capture the early days of disco. Here's an interview w/ him on the era https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/11/interview-andrew-holleran https://t.co/QYKfzoKOc5

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

…and check out the remix w/ Missy https://youtu.be/P3mDUGEYN0w You can also read my article about how Black gay clubs “saved” Tambourine https://level.medium.com/how-eves-tambourine-conquered-black-gay-clubs-13ec9867d6c5 (Thanks to all my Twitter pals in this story. Also, s/o @aliyasking who encouraged me to write it.) https://twitter.com/definition223/status/1499578689297731603 https://t.co/nEOXZYDMEk

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

#NowReading Andrew Holleran's The Kingdom Of Sand. It's devastating me w/ every word in the most beautiful way. He writes my ❤️ Also, Dancer From The Dance is one of the best novels to capture the early days of disco. Here's an interview w/ him on the era https://t.co/6fv0Gsm55i https://t.co/QYKfzoKOc5

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