.JoyAnnReid: Tina Turner was, in every way, a timeless icon.
When I was a little girl, I had a rag doll … the only doll I’ve ever owned…That line, from the song “River Deep — Mountain High,” is how I came to love Tina Turner. But it was my mom who was— churning out pop-rock hits that had Miss Philomena dancing across our kitchen floor and cranking it up in the car. But it was ‘60s Tina Turner that captivated me, in old videos from before I was even born that played on an eclectic local music video show that aired on Saturdays in Denver, where I grew up.
In the 2021 documentary “Tina,” we learned even more: about the pain of abandonment she suffered as a child, and the seemingly unsurvivable abuse not just from Ike, but from a music industry that found her, at various times, to be too Black, too white, too rock 'n' roll, too sexy for her age, and too ambitious for a woman.
Yet this is the diva who taught Mick Jagger how to move; David Bowie how to do rhythm and blues, and the industry how to respect an artist who could throw on a miniskirt in her 50s and 60s, sing her heart out or act her behind off, and be whoever the hell she wanted to be, unapologetically. For all of those reasons, Tina shone. She showed Black women — really, all women — what we can be when we stop being afraid. And my mom was right. She was pretty damn cool.
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