Donna Summer Interview (The 700 Club, 1983)

[@frederiknelck8447]

I can't imagine her doing anything bad. She spread so much love and joy with her singing. No need to feel any guilt. Bless her.

[@KevinLong-jr1zv]

Donna Summer is a vibe. Trust me!❤

[@themotownboy1]

She struggled so much with the balance between her faith and her passion for her art. Now she knows the truth.

[@jamesdaly9016]

She went back to sing Love to Love you Baby years later. She knew it was a great song after all and the Lord approved ❤🙏

[@romerjusu3804]

I want to hug her 😢

[@escott5839]

It is comforting to know Donna was like many of us. Her voice, beauty, and faith will keep her spirit alive. Rest in peace, beautiful lady.

[@luisfuerte4938]

Her punishment was David Geffen never really promoting her as he should have. So gifted yet so underrated! She had a powerhouse voice.

[@heiswise2012]

Well, her records turned bad after she left Casablanca company. She also turned too religious and turned her back to the gay community and told in some concert there was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. There are also rumors she claimed God punished gays with the HIV epidemic. There is still controversy if the latter rumor is true or not. Anyway, the gay community felt betrayed since they always had supported her and bought her records. They burned her records on the streets and at the same time people died for AIDS. The good thing was that she became wiser when she got older, and she realized she was a fool. She also started to perform her sexy songs again in her concerts and find the connection with her gay fans again.

[@ericashantel5226]

@@heiswise2012that is a lie

[@heiswise2012]

@@ericashantel5226 what do you mean? You can watch the documentary that came out this spring. In the documentary, Bruce Sudano, her husband admits she made at least the Adam and Eve comment. You propably don't know any fundamentalist Christians. They still think the same way about gays. In this interview, she talks about God all the time. And the interviewer doesn't make the situation better since he seems to be a fundamentalist, too. So painful to watch this. She is like another person. Only a few years earlier she gave an interview to the Penthouse magazine and was a cover girl on it. But I understand she had mental problems and the religion was a way to survive. Too bad this religion thing went too far. Anyway, Donna propably changed her mind afterwards. However, according to the documentary, she never really recovered from the time she turned her back to the gay community in the early 80'.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

She should have been with stock aikman and waterman by 1987 I kind of like some of the songs on her 1987 album but it should have had some really cool hits and cool music and it didn't.. it almost seemed like an urban album made in Europe

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

​@@heiswise2012the most homophobic people I see are whites with black or half black grandchildren and the Christians who support all these wars for Israel ..when Donna become a born-again Christian in the early 1980s it was happening with washed up movie stars and she was around these people .. I actually never believed Donna said negative things about gay people until her husband and daughters admitted it recently..

[@rbcinmia]

Beautiful Donna.

[@romerjusu3804]

I feel for Donna.

[@angeladarby6365]

Great interview!

[@curtismichael4703]

I would like to see an interview (If she ever did one) where she goes in-depth about how she navigated her musical projects as a Christian. Her albums, starting with The Wanderer always contained at least one spiritual/gospel song.

[@travismelton3255]

I would imagine she prayed about confirmation with each song or wisdom that what she wanted to do lined up with the word.....something that effect, same as all of us should do with every big and small decision we need to make.

[@cgavin9532]

Heartbreaking to hear the shame others brainwashed her to feel. She was born pure and remained that way in whatever state she was in.

[@markwells6222]

very beautiful Donna

[@gvalley07]

What a beautiful person! RIP

[@giovannipoggi8374]

La piu'grande top singer-female

[@triadafillos1]

Talent, huge voice, good looks, a lot of humour and wit, no wonder she becam a big workd wide star

[@oliverwittofficial4997]

Yet still she made millions with "those" songs and so does her estate.

[@francescamaria6818]

Was she really a sinner? Because she sang a song??? Come on!!

[@donovanblack148]

It's deeper than just singing a song. I've heard the music industry is very demonic and if she made a covenant with dark spirits to become a star than that's a problem. Sounds like she may have sold her soul for fame. That's a real thing, believe it or not.

[@heiswise2012]

Nope. It was only a song. Becides, it sounds like the interviewer had listened to this "sinful" song, too, and many times, lol. Btw, Donna sang Love to love you baby in her last tour again.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

I remember the criticism disco had and the criticism directed at Donna Summer by 1979....it was something I never saw any artist experience before...later I saw it directed at Ann Wilson of heart during the late 1980s.. this kind of constant harsh criticism caused Donna to engage in self-blame and blame herself for the conflict and distress and disruption of peace that other people caused.. it's easier to blame yourself than to take on all the people who inflict criticism and cause disruption to your life

[@apollokain2542]

She considered herself a sinner because she was promoting sexual type songs. Love To Love You was like Madonnas Erotica era at that time.

[@Atlantisboi77]

Amen 🙏🏿 thank you Lord 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@mreburto239]

Very enlightening interview. She is very animated and comfortable speaking with Mr. Robertson. Something childlike in her complete acceptance of being born again. Strange because this woman moved to Germany and made things happen. That was a very unusual life event. She put in the work to achieve the success she had and there is no reason to feel ashamed of past deeds. Perhaps she should have just walked completely away from the music biz like Al Green or Cat Stevens.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

the word unusual is a bad choice ..she lived a storied life and eventful life she was highly motivated to do something with her singing and acting ability ..she was conflicted inside and she beat herself up over things she should not have during the best years of her career.. she was too hard on herself and she was blaming herself for the stress and conflict other people were causing her instead of enjoying her success when she should have ..

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

Pat Robinson ruins his interview he keeps interrupting I would have liked to hear more about Donna's dreams even though I reject her premise that she was doing something wrong or that she was causing other people to do something wrong.

[@glorialovesChrist]

Donna was sexually abused by her Pastor. She kept is secret from her fans. She her documentary Love to Love You Donna Summer . Her daughter Brooklyn director. Read her book Ordinary Girl The Journey by Donna Summer.

[@62Osyrus]

Did she say she was living in darkness when she sang love to love you? Talk about hypocrisy. She sang that song for years. At least she sang it when I saw her in concert in 2010. Furthermore, when is enjoying sex “living in darkness?” Sex is a gift from god.

[@lamusiclover2264]

When she sang that song in later years, she sang it without all of the moaning and groaning and the slithering up and down the microphone stand. She changed it to a song dedicated to loving someone. And what is wrong with being sensual? That's no sin!

[@anthonygiordano3991]

Sex is a gift from God… within the boundaries of marriage. Apart from marriage (between a man and a woman), it’s a sin.

[@lamusiclover2264]

@@anthonygiordano3991 In your fantasy world that may be true, you poor, lonely, unhappy, unfulfilled soul. You do know that the Bible doesn't mention one word about marriage. Also what does that have to do with Beyonce? She's a married woman so why does anything she says or does bother you?

[@rgrndu]

@@anthonygiordano3991That sounds so stupid. Probably something you read.

[@NYCgirl927]

@@anthonygiordano3991 sex is a gift from God when 2 people love one another.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

I think Donna did not have any support system and did not have anyone to identify with and that's what caused her to be suicidal and have all these internal severe conflicts unlike the celebrities of today who have everyone kissing their behinds telling them they're the greatest and everybody loves them and they have a rigged media that will never criticize them.. Donna suffered all the viciousness of the people who hated disco and the people who felt Donna crossed a line when she became a superstar in the way that only rock stars and a very small number of white women like Streisand were able to attain..

[@victorhunter8900]

At least, Donna was lucky enough to continue being successful in the 1980's. Most Disco acts died with Disco. On the other hand, she deserved all her fame and even more success during the 1980s. If she had had the management, PR, and marketing team Madonna had, Donna would have been unstoppable.

[@justjarod7440]

Couldn’t she have identified with Diana Ross who was also a huge black woman celebrity

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

Donna had bipolar or something like most people who are really gifted in art... she attempted suicide so she was suffering from some kind of internal severe distress which is actually common for those who are actually highly gifted in art and music ...all we have now are fourth-rate actors pretending to be musicians and pretending to be singing artists.

[@romerjusu3804]

She is a real Christian 😍

[@walendxweg]

🪞⚫🌞💎

[@phillycheez6288]

Kelly Rowland is Donna's doppelganger 😳🤎🫶🏽🔥the resemblance is uncanny...especially here..

[@ThatPanacheDude]

Absolutely, I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps she could play Donna Summer in a biopic. ❤

[@iusedyourtowel6765]

Celebrities get cloned in a factory.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

This is self blame blaming helself for all the pressures her personal situation caused or the people around her caused

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

I don't think she should have done this show let someone like Eminem or Justin Timberlake or Beyonce go on a religious show and talk about how they were living a life of darkness ..at least Donna had songs that sounded good these other people are just fourth-rate actors pretending to be musicians that is the worst sin of all

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

She was the only black woman with Superstar status she didn't have a support system she had no one to identify with that's what caused a lot of the pressure that made her associate her best years with something negative and oppressive and unnatural

[@habcast3978]

Vomit-inducing.

[@makskaczanowski6630]

omg so much religion in those ppl - so good times have changed

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

The religious people are way worse now they are advocating mass murder and supporting wars overseas..free Palestine.

[@iusedyourtowel6765]

I'm so glad that she found Jesus after getting rich from songs that glorify prostitution, such as "Bad Girls" and "She Works Hard for the Money."

[@alexd1121]

This is so hard to watch. She doesn’t have to apologize. If people can’t make the difference between a work image and personal truth it’s their problem. Who put her in that interview. That reporter isn’t helping at all. She needed guidance from intelligent people not God at that point.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

Oct 1979 the height of the hatred of disco music this had to have a negative effect on Donna because in early 1979 she was full of enthusiasm and optimism for her new upcoming album. The harsh criticism affected her and I think she internalized it as sin or a religious issue.

[@dampergoldenrod4156]

People also do drugs and drunk because they cannot do anything about the wrongs going on all around them. We thought religion was a good thing in the 1980s before they used it to justify wars by 1991.

[@iusedyourtowel6765]

Oh, they never used religion to justify war before 1991?