Ellen DeGeneres Remembers Donna Summer

[jasey]

Ellen DeGeneres is actually terrible based on the image she gives out. I have always found her grating but this just takes it all to case. Out of all the celebrity tweets about Donna Summer's passing, Ellen's was the most crass. She noted that because she died, "I even used one of her songs in my show that airs today." She didn't just do it, she 'even' did it. You know, like she is going out of her way.

Ellen features at least one song per episode on her talk show. Every show. She has filmed over 1 500 episodes which all feature this minimum of one track. Some feature two and some even feature three from my experience watching her parade of fake smiles. Of course, the songs are never in full unless it is a musical guest performance which is quite rare for the program. Anyways, it's fair to say she has had at least 2 000 unique songs on her show over it's span of eleven seasons.

Thank you, Ellen, for your generousity. You are so kind to bequeath the honour of playing a thirty second clip of a genre-topping legend's song during the dancing opening segment of your daytime chatterfest. I am sure no one can do a greater honour to Ms. Summer than to play her music while the camera pans over the middle aged audience looking for the 'funniest' dancers to feature in slow motion replay.

Seriously, Ellen is just beyond any kindness in her tribute! There have been about five hundred different Billboard number one songs within America in the past thirty-five years — which is about the duration from when Summer began her musical career. Ellen has featured quadruple that number of songs on her show. Since Donna Summer is dead now, though, maybe it is appropriate for Ellen to play something Donna sang instead of 'Sorry For Party Rocking' by LMFAO. Do you feel her golden heart yet?

Ellen really knows how to put her overwhelming amount of daily screen time to its best use. For example, Ellen once dedicated the greater part of two episodes to mope about a dog that was mistakenly given to her for a short period of time and had to be legally taken away. She took the time to cry on air in a carefully-filmed emotional break and halted production of the whole show for half a week to 'compose herself' afterwards. Thousands of family pets that have been dedicated members of a family group for, you know, longer than a week or two die each day. Perhaps this means Ellen should halt production on her show indefinitely to compose herself over that tragedy.

Two episodes (with Ellen crying included) for one dog would mean that for a thousand companion animals that have been with a family or individual for longer than ten years - as opposed to a couple of weeks - that subsequently die means two thousand episodes and a damned lot of whining for people other than herself. Those pets would die before lunchtime on any given day in America alone. I guess Ellen will be on television until she herself dies should she choose to take that route! Alternatively, perhaps she should spend the time to condemn each and every person who believes in breaching a written contract like she did only to have her fans send death threats to her opponent as was the case in Ellen's 'puppygate' scandal. Puppies are too cute to resist!

After I think about this, maybe that would take too much time away from the six year old and eight year old Ellen likes to have on her show to sing or scream pop and rap songs. They have appeared in large segments and interviews over time. Ellen, so smitten with their youth and British accents, has featured them in no less than two dozen episodes. This amounts to six hours of screen time by the most pessimistic guess. That's totally fair, though. It's not like obsessively using children under eight for ratings and YouTube views in exchange for a couple of plastic tiaras is a bit off or anything, right?

I guess I have changed my mind after thinking about this. With hours of toddlers miming to rap songs about cocaine (carefully edited with different lyrics for the rating council, of course) and all that time needed to cry and scream over an animal you want but legally can't have because it is contractually obligated to a certain person entrusted with taking care of it, I suppose the thirty seconds of Donna Summer is more than enough to make her memory last.

It almost wasn't, though. Thank heavens that Ellen remembered to include the air date for this episode so we don't forget to watch.

Moved by Lee (Forum Moderator): From 'Discuss Anything' as it's better suited here.

[dbgtz]

Ellen DeGeneres is annoying.

[jasey]

Ellen DeGeneres is annoying.

Oh my days, I agree with you fully!

[GommeInc]

The article is weirdly written, they dislike her but at the same like her for playing a song (like anyone would say no to the opportunity anyway, she is being overplayed at the moment, like most artists who have recently passed).

That said, she is annoying. I switch off whenever she's talking. Thankfully I only ever see her whenever someone posts a YouTube clip of some low-rate celebrity who can only appear on her show.

[jasey]

The article is weirdly written, they dislike her but at the same like her for playing a song (like anyone would say no to the opportunity anyway, she is being overplayed at the moment, like most artists who have recently passed).

That said, she is annoying. I switch off whenever she's talking. Thankfully I only ever see her whenever someone posts a YouTube clip of some low-rate celebrity who can only appear on her show.

I don't think it was written praising Ellen for playing Donna Summer or anything else. It basically condemns her for tweeting that she 'even decided' to play Donna Summer in remembrance (for thirty seconds) when she plays at least one song five times a week. Sometimes multiple. This totals four times the number of number ones in America since Summer started singing.

For the eighth most successful female recording artist in Billboard history who dies before retirement age (of cancer), this seems like shameless self-promotion by the 'Queen of Nice' - DeGeneres. The tune-in time at the end of the tweet was just acid on the cut. Other celebrities just expressed a fond memory or a nice message but Ellen was on a high horse about it and shameless. Really, it would be minor for most celebrities but it is a total hypocritical move by Ellen based on the values she trumps.

[Logandyer45]

I used to not like Ellen until I watched some of her clips and what not on YouTube. Here are a couple.

1)She reunited the family that's car flipped into the river in Utah with the people whom saved them.
2)She helped a school in Cali and ALSO got Justin Beiber to perform for them.

I like her shows now, I also love her little funny segments like the dance dares and the "In Your FACEbook"

[Phil]

I don't think she meant to imply that she was going out of her way? Didn't read the whole article but that's what I have to say for the first part.

I love Ellen lol

[jasey]

I used to not like Ellen until I watched some of her clips and what not on YouTube. Here are a couple.

She reunited the family that's car flipped into the river in Utah with the people whom saved them.
She helped a school in Cali and ALSO got Justin Beiber to perform for them.

I like her shows now, I also love her little funny segments like the dance dares and the "In Your FACEbook"

I'd like to think that the better people are the ones who reunite families and help schools not for the sake of ratings and paycheques but just because it is helping thing to do. Ellen had a large career before she ever became America's 'Queen of Nice' and you didn't once hear about her doing crazy things like that. It is a branded and targeted effort — all of these lovely things she does — created by herself and the producers. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's great that her show isn't all celebrity gossip. I just find this tweet in particular telling as to how much she means the nice things she does. As I mentioned, she never seemed to have such a golden heart until it was broadcast all across the world. You're sheltered to think she would do the same without the talk show. The tweet shows her real attitude.

I don't think she meant to imply that she was going out of her way? Didn't read the whole article but that's what I have to say for the first part.

I love Ellen lol

Alright, so you are openly biased and you didn't read the full thing but commented anyways. I can't say I take that seriously.

[Grig]

Put a plug on it. This forum will find anything to moan about. Ellen has a superb show and genuinely cares about what she talks about.

[Absently]

I really enjoy Ellen, but I don't think everything that she says should be taken so serious. A lot of her tweets are generally a joke (the ones I've seen anyway).