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Could Latoya Have Had A Successful Music Career?

wannabestartinsomthin21 said:
La Toya can't sing. She can dance a little, but nothing spectacular. And as far as I know, she doesn't write or compose. I don't think she ever could have had any kind of real success musically speaking. But I like her a lot, and despite her bubbly-seeming personality, she's clearly very intelligent.
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She is no Whitney/Mariah when it comes to vocals...but she can hold a tune...plus you don't have to have a brilliant voice to be a successful singer..look at britney and madonna (and Janet doesn't have a very strong voice either)...

FYI she does write and compose her own music...(which is what she has done on her 'startin over' album)...and her vocals on the new album are a vast improvement (and fairly good in my opinion) on her old material and the lyrics to her new songs aren't that bad...i think she is a great lyricist. Have u heard the songs 'home' and 'should've left you'?

I believe that had she originally been given the oppurtunity to work with the right producers while she was still young...she could have made it...:punk:
 
Latoya can't sing on key, which both Michael, Jermaine, and Janet can (as well as the other Jacksons.) She has a nice voice otherwise, but to be a singer you have to sing on key, and Latoya just can't do it.
 
Well another talent La Toya lacks is stage command and charisma. She doesn't own a room when she walk's in to it, she doesn't make you want to look at her and only her. And she doesn't know how to work a stage. She's flat on stage. Not possesing those talents probably held her back more then anything.
 
If you haven't heard La Toya's song called 'Home' I think you should (posted below)...her vocals on this are great (and she is in NO WAY off key) and the lyrics are beautiful (she wrote them herself about her family)...

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=i9KBzcx6fN8
 
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UMM YEA NO LATOYA A MUSIC CAREER..NO..SHE DOESNT HAVE STAGE PRESENCE LOL. And her voice is annoying and she cant dance..that much. does she even write or compose?..maybe she shud just do reality tv lol...or heck sit back and enjoy the fact shes mikes sister lol
 
michaelsson said:
UMM YEA NO LATOYA A MUSIC CAREER..NO..SHE DOESNT HAVE STAGE PRESENCE LOL. And her voice is annoying and she cant dance..that much. does she even write or compose?..maybe she shud just do reality tv lol...or heck sit back and enjoy the fact shes mikes sister lol
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I agree that she doesn't have the stage presence of MJ or even Janet....and in SOME of her songs her voice is annoying...but in others her voice is pleasant...it depends on what she is singing...I implore you to listen to 'Home' it is a good song and her voice sounds good..and she does write and compose her own music..she did most of it on her 'Startin Over' album..

All in all I think she could have been a singer (she would be passable)..but perhaps she is better suited to writing music/acting or modelling...
 
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Latoya has stage prsence, and she is the most interesting charater in the family after Michael. latoya was known world wide and had a loyal following even before she sang a note. She has charima. Even if she doesn't sing well people still pay loads of money to go see her. She was popular for just being herself. If I were latoya I wouldn't have bothered with the singing. She can sing, but sometimes she seems off key of lacking in confidence. I am not surprised when she has so many talented people around her and people are always telling her that she cant.

I find Latoya's character way more interesting and entertaining that Janet's. She is one of the few who seems to have the gift of the gab too. I still maintain that she should have been a model because she was a fashion icon at the height of her peek.
 
Except for the unfortunte marriage she had with the control freak, seems like if she could have made it with a successful and long lasting singing career, she would have. Didn't happen.

That's not to say she's not talented in other areas, just her singing wasn't exactly always up to par, but that's just my opinion, each to his own.
 
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I agree LaToya´s debut album is quite good. I think that if she had met the right producer in her early 20s who really did what worked best for her then she could have been quite successful, but she has always lived in the shadow of her brothers and later Janet and probably it the shadow of Rebbie also when she was a kid (I read somewhere that Rebbie won a dance competition when she was only 4 years old). But I also think she could have been successful as a talkshow host or something like that.
 
naw and it would have happen a long time ago. she never made much of a stylist and she was dry and stiff on stage and in pressence and she had some good cuts to break out with,but she never had it.
 
Marni said:
That magazine is not art. I know you're defending LaToya, Datsymay, but no way is that magazine art or meant to be art.

I don't care that she posed nude either. but no, I don't think she could have had a successful music career. She's absolutely beautiful, and she danced well on the Jacksons TV show, but that's about it. :) I like LaToya- I think she's a great, strong woman.
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My thoughts exactly.

BTW, Playboy is not art, it is nasty. LOL. There is nothing "art" about porn. Being trained as a photogragher ain't gonna cut it. LOL.

No, I do not think LaToya would be successful as an artist. She had no real star quality. BTW, I do not think that MJ would be too fond of someone that prefers to trash Janet on any given Janet thread just to trash her.
 
Triumph said:
playboy is erotic art. nothing more.
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Playboy is for men to look at naked women and masturbate. I know this, most other people know this, and the people who produce Playboys know this. A product is what its target demographic wants, and the target demographic wants nudie pics of "bunnies" and famous people, so they can pleasure themselves. This doesn't make them perverts or anything either. If Playboy supposedly existed for the purpose of "beholding the wonders of nature" or something fruity and untrue like that, then the majority of the cover girls wouldn't have breast implants.

Playboy isn't as risque as most forms of erotica that people look at today, but it still serves the same function.

That being said, I don't have anything against LaToya because she posed for Playboy, but since the discussion changed course about Playboy being more art than porn, there you go.
 
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Datsymay said:
The dumbing down of the American education system is showing again.
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You are funny. Let me state a few things:

1. You claimed that you put me on ignore. So IGNORE me. Got that?

2. I do not respresent the "dumbing down" of the American Education system. That system been in the toliet long before I started school in the late 1980s. There are plenty of US fans who went to public school maybe even have a college degree. I represent me and only me. Period. There are plenty of people who agree with me and they represent themsleves and only themselves. But you wouldn't know that. You are too full of Dats.

3. LaToya had no real talent. She had time to do something with herself even before MJ did Thriller. LaToya wanted fame and knew that she did not have the sheer talent that MJ had/has. She could have been a model, a stylist, a fashion desginer. She decided to marry a wife beater loser, she decided to trash her family in a book and on tv and she decided to call her brother a "pedophile". Instead of thinking how this would look on MJ, her family, etc. she thought about herself. Now, I have forgiven LaToya for her stupid, ditsy behavior. However, I will never fully forgive what she did to her family and her brother. Instead of accepting the fact that she was a wasted "talent" she decided to do what she did. No one stopped her from having her own success. She just decided that in order to have her own "success" she had to bring down her whole family. That shows someone's true colors. BTW, I am not a fan of bossip.com but when recent pics of LaToya were posted on the site, the person from Bossip basically stated what I believe a lot of people wanted to state: LaToya needs to SIT DOWN somewhere. LOL. Damn, sometimes, the truth hurts. I still have some respect for her but that is about it.

She can do a reality show about her daily life. Now, that would be must see TV.
 
The simple answer to this thread is no
can u really see young, middle aged and old aged people still buying her records at the this present time if she was still recording music?
Was/ is she any good at singing?
(like someone else as stated) does she really have stage presence?
I personally aint fussed about Latoya... but then again i'm sure people who are

But the simple and honest from me to the threads question is Nope :)
The only Jackson who have stage presence are all the Jackson Brothers (of course including MJ) and Janet
 
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Bee said:
You are funny. Let me state a few things:

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3. LaToya had no real talent. She had time to do something with herself even before MJ did Thriller. LaToya wanted fame and knew that she did not have the sheer talent that MJ had/has. She could have been a model, a stylist, a fashion desginer. She decided to marry a wife beater loser, she decided to trash her family in a book and on tv and she decided to call her brother a "pedophile". Instead of thinking how this would look on MJ, her family, etc. she thought about herself. Now, I have forgiven LaToya for her stupid, ditsy behavior. However, I will never fully forgive what she did to her family and her brother. Instead of accepting the fact that she was a wasted "talent" she decided to do what she did. No one stopped her from having her own success. She just decided that in order to have her own "success" she had to bring down her whole family. That shows someone's true colors. BTW, I am not a fan of bossip.com but when recent pics of LaToya were posted on the site, the person from Bossip basically stated what I believe a lot of people wanted to state: LaToya needs to SIT DOWN somewhere. LOL. Damn, sometimes, the truth hurts. I still have some respect for her but that is about it.
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For the Record...

* La Toya originally had NO intention of entering the music business..she has stated in interviews that she originally wanted to go to college and study business/law and wanted no part of the music industry...it was her father who wouldn't allow her to follow her dreams had forced her into the music industry...after that I suppose she decided she liked it and stayed on in that profession. I do not see any evidence that she was selfish and was doing it for fame...that is is too simplisctic...I suppose though that ppl want to have a reason to hate her for that '1993 fiasco'...and will always find somthing else to attack her about..

* It was also NOT her choice to marry 'that wife beating loser'...she has said so many times...(I believe it is also written in her autobiography). She was wed against her will

* Since she left her husband..she actually has pursued areas of business other than music..she is not stupid

* From what Ive seen in current interviews since she left her husband, I beleive that what she did against her family during those terrible years was out of fear for her life and that of her family..and NOT because she was selfish or was driven by wanting fame for herself...(that is how her HUSBAND wanted to portray her...and apparently it worked)...I think the LaTOya ppl came to know in the 90's was a complete product of her husbands manipulation and control...

Coz in case you haven't noticed...her behaviour BEFORE and AFTER those events was NOTHING like what you described of her 'hating her family and being driven by greed and fame'..She did not display that behaviour before that and has not been like that since..notice that she was only the was you described her in the 90's..(coincedentally when she was married to her husband)

And finally saying that she has no real talent is a bit harsh...have u heard all of her music to make such a judgement?..I admit her late 80's and 90's stuff was kinda crap...but her first and last albums were really good
 
If she had met with the right people, I'm sure she would. I truly believe modeling would be a major success for her in the early days because she was so beautiful.
 
to get to the point: If she COULD have she WOULD have..


There was nothing stopping her.
 
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she's tryin to do rock with an r&b voice, if she took the right genre of music she'd be so kick ass people would be like "Holy s#@!! Where'd that come from?" and they'd stop takin her as a joke.... she really is beautiful, if only she showed herself in a different limelight.....
 
Because your last name is Jackson doesn't mean that you are going to have talent.... It is hard to believe that Latoya was the first Jackson sister that had a singing career and her very first album wasn't that bad neither was the second one. I think if she had the write producers, she could have had an ok music career.
 
I think that we need to put our past grudges against Latoya aside, and think about the possibility of what could have been. Latoya is just as talented as Janet. IN fact, if they had put together about 3 or 4 other young beautiful black woman with Latoya, who knows?? They could have had an act that rivals the Pussycat Dolls. I am serious. This is not a diss or an inference to Playboy either. I think she would have wowed them. I always admired LaToya's talent. She was just in the wrong place at wrong times in her life. And didn't have the confidence or assertiveness to take control of situations. She needed confidence boosting, and she didn't get any....
 
Yeah I too think with the right team, her voice isn't the same as Janets, I learned that when she sang WBSS on big brother, but who knows if she had hooked up with Jam and Lewis or someone like that she could have made it. From what I remember from the variety show her dancing was okay.
 
I don't know about a "successful music career," but she PROBABLY could have been an Oscar worthy actress after that PERFORMANCE she gave under the "direction" of her ex-husband.

She "claimed" that her husband MADE her do it, but I don't think Meryl Streep, Halle Berry, Helen Mirren, or Angelina Jolie could have handled that "ACTING" any better than Ms. LaToya did.

He TOLD her what to do (LOL), she got all made-up, put on her best outfit, took the microphone and handled that PERFORMANCE like a pro. She missed her calling. LOL!
 
Big Apple2 said:
I don't know about a "successful music career," but she PROBABLY could have been an Oscar worthy actress after that PERFORMANCE she gave under the "direction" of her ex-husband.

She "claimed" that her husband MADE her do it, but I don't think Meryl Streep, Halle Berry, Helen Mirren, or Angelina Jolie could have handled that "ACTING" any better than Ms. LaToya did.

He TOLD her what to do (LOL), she got all made-up, put on her best outfit, took the microphone and handled that PERFORMANCE like a pro. She missed her calling. LOL!
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you're not lying ( LOL... ) LaToya was 'acting' very good back then. What I don't understand is how was LaToya able to be 'saved' from Jack Gordon, yet the family couldn't help MJ supposedly? What did Joe and Katherine do to rescue their daughter from the likes of Jack Gordon who they believe were drugging and brainwashing their daughter? Was the police ever contacted?
 
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