Donna Summer Reaction Love's About to Change My Heart (BABY THE VOCALS?!?) | Empress Reacts

[@citydweller99]

This is one of the few songs that SAW wrote that was tailored to a singer. SAW/Donna Summers was a great collab... she actually motivated them to put effort into adjusting their assembly line formula.

[@alexandergrande]

I agree! I was listening to this podcast and I think Matt Aitken had said that she basically made them actually put more effort into writing as she wasn't their typical acts and how this song they went back to the roots of donna to formulate it

[@teralmiles]

There’s no S on the end of Summer… Just saying. ❤

[@richardwilson828]

One of the surprises of her 1996 tour was adding this song to her setlist. She definitely rocked this song live when she performed it.

[@EmpressReacts]

I bet!

[@DAVEJJR]

Love this song so much!!! This entire album was AMAZING….

[@allancorbin5608]

Great observation about Donna Summer in her own lane. Non Donna Summer fans wouldnt realise that she tended to put her spin on songs. Moroder described her as an alchemist. He said that the songs would give her were base metals and she would turn them into gold.

[@RBS_]

***DONNA SUMMER (CHART) TRIVIA TIME!!*** ...for those DISCOheads, who got their 'hearts' back...(0:51) ....October 1989 (Dance) .... 10. Tears - Frankie Knuckles feat Satoshi Tomiie 9. Say No Go (remix) - De La Soul 8. Life Is A Dance (Remix Album, all cuts) - Chaka Khan 7. So Many People - Hubert Kah 6. Don't Make Me Over - Sybil 5. It's No Crime (Remixes) - Babyface 4. My Heart Skips A Beat (Remixes) - Cover Girls 3. Miss You Much (Remixes) - Janet Jackson 2. French Kiss - Lil' Louis 1. ***Love's About To Change My Heart (C+C Remixes)*** - Donna Summer (1st wk. of 4 weeks)

[@julianmulloy3772]

It got better as it went along, what a voice

[@briancooj445]

your reaction to this Amazing song and artist has made my world,

[@EmpressReacts]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@teralmiles]

My late father adored this song. The album this was on is pure pop magic too. I used to play it all the time in the 90’s 😂

[@EmpressReacts]

🔥

[@craigjb8740]

SAW brilliance. When they got it right they got it very right. This one of their finest and the 12" extended mix is fiya❤‍🔥

[@EmpressReacts]

🔥

[@TheRoman4373]

She’s a trained opera singer too

[@michaelasay8587]

People ..do you know Empress has a beautiful voice? She said a long time ago...that she was going to out some music out!! So everyone...get on her!!

[@EmpressReacts]

Thank you!

[@margaretreed9935]

Love Donna

[@EmpressReacts]

🔥

[@darnell49]

VOCALS ‼️ that never miss. Donna can SANG.🔥🔥 This sounds like around the time of This Time I Know It's For Real.💯 about Jody Whatley reference. Empress you're doing the church clap and I'm doing the church stomp.

[@EmpressReacts]

guess it's fair to say we caught the holy ghost with donna😂

[@darnell49]

@@EmpressReacts 🤣Amen

[@RBS_]

***DONNA SUMMER (80's COMEBACK) TRIVIA TIME!!** .....It CHANGED, for the BETTER....(4:20) .....OMG! ...now THIS, is gonna be loooooong, Empress.....my FAVORITE Donna (80's) track! - ...From the TOP: Donna was faltering BAD, Feb., 1988; G-ys were still mad at 'that rumour', her label (Geffen) dropped her, her Records weren't selling....so, she took a sabbatical, started painting, and raised her Daughters.... - ...then, she got a (UK) Record label deal, & her Husband suggested that she work w/ *STOCK AITKEN & WATERMAN* , who blew up in 1987 w/ Rick Astley & Kylie Minogue...she agreed, cut an Album with them in 2 weeks(!) ("Another Place & Time"), and.....all *HELL BROKE LOOSE!* - ...the 1st single, ("This Time I Know It's For Real") was a WORLDWIDE hit, and brought her back into the USA Top Ten (#7 Pop, #1 Dance), & she had another Top Ten (UK) Pop hit, with "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt"...but, THIS one, was for the CLUBS..... - ...Donna got C&C Music Factory to remix it, and it #1 Dance (for 4 weeks), got her G-y fanbase back, (she apologized in a letter to GM-HC) and it eased Donna into the 90's, where she had numerous Top Ten Dance hits, since.... (4:31) - ...this version, was the SAW 7" remix version, with added ad-libs at the end.... Donna, was BACK..... (4:58)

[@craigcraigster4999]

"I've been around the block enough to know that This Time I Know It's For Real." A Donna comeback song for the ages! 💥💯💥

[@RBS_]

@@craigcraigster4999 ...I see what you DID there! ...ha-HAA!! ...ah, ME, did I LOVE this Album! ...I have the 40th Anniversary re-issue, the Box set remaster, the "12"s" Japan Import....I was nuts...NUTZ!

[@dennisjacks7923]

Donna never had a UK Record Label deal ! She was with Geffen and for that reason, SAW who would normally record a song, release it, and them decided if they were going to record another song or maybe do an album with the artist; had to do an entire album with her, because of her contract with Geffen. That was not the way SAW normally worked, their words. Geffen Records decided to release her from her contract, so the rush was on in the US to find new label to released the album in the US. She signed with Atlantic Records, but lost time (a few months)/sales because the first single was already a hit across Europe. Import albums sales were good but that didn't help with her US deal. Geffen Records once again made a poor decision. Donna was black balled in the US, the only reason TTIKIFR was a hit, was because it made radio playlist for the US, on virtue of being a top 5 hit across Europe, so DJs had to play the song. This was the follow up and it tanked..big time. 3 weeks in the Hot 100, the DJs did not have the song.

[@antjohnson3]

Empress, myself being a HUGE Donna Summer fan since LTLYB, seeing your reaction to this song is priceless.This is a Stock Aiken and Waterman (SAW) production.❤️‍🔥 They produced the early hits for Kylie minogue and Rick Astley. They have commented that working with Donna on this album was different from ANY other artists that they had worked with. They didn't have to use the EXTRA STUFF that they'd used with other artists, due to her extreme vocal talent and ability. They said EVERYONE, even the janitors, stopped to listen to her do her vocal warmups. VOCAAAAALS❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Thank you Empress!

[@allancorbin5608]

I think they also said that she used to warm up in the bathroom and her voice would fill the entire building. Seperately, the great and also underrated Marilyn McCoo said that the first time she and Donna were rehearsing in the dressing room for an episode of Solid Gold, that when Donna opened up her voice she blew her out of the room and that she had never experienced such a powerful voice before.

[@antjohnson3]

@@allancorbin5608 YES!!!!!

[@douglastaggart9360]

This whole album had some great songs on it.

[@michaelasay8587]

Empress...u hqve a lot more to go with Donna!!

[@THEPATRIOT1000]

Donna started on stage in the musical Hair, in Germany. It is on youtube.

[@salpusateri7242]

Awesome! now it’s time to move into the 1990s.. Donna’s goes a urban / pop .. with her hit single and video for “Work that Magic”. Single , Album “Mistaken Identity” Thank you :)

[@EmpressReacts]

Interesting!

[@salpusateri7242]

@@EmpressReacts yep, Then Donna’s 4th decade release 2000s. Her final album “Crayons” which yielded three number #1 dance/ pop singles on billboard dance chart. :) “Queen is back” kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZOyhZqIhbBlrJYsi=33rAvJPwfuy-jct2

[@dinholondres]

Still got the album which this song was taken from, and it’s just full of great songs. This song wasn’t a big hit but it deserved it! ❤️

[@EmpressReacts]

whaaaat!!!! this wasn't a HUGE hit?!?!

[@dinholondres]

@EmpressReacts I know… 😞

[@nalechaben2044]

Thank you for reacting to Donna Summer once again. That was a fantastic review of the song and her stellar vocal performance. Great assessment of her impact as well. May I suggest the following songs also by Donna Summer : Love Is In Control (1982), Dinner With Gershwin (1987) and The Wanderer (1980). Thanks Empress.

[@THEPATRIOT1000]

Endless Summer

[@lamusiclover2264]

This is from her famous album produced by Stock. Aitken & Waterman who had been begging to work with her. After she heard "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley she liked their production and did a full album produced by them. This album is Worshipped by Donna Summer fans and DJ's, especially this track, which has had more remixes than anyone can count, and was released in an anniversary collection that has like 10 remixes and edits of this song alone, plus umpteen more remixes if most every other track. Most people consider this to be the best song on the album because they used the format that she actually began which was the start of song slowly and then burst into a swirling dance arrangement and unbearable vocal FIRE! experience! Also. Donna was known for her wardrobe, much of which she designed herself. Her wardrobe has been on display at the Grammy museum, and others , and I just participated in an estate auction for charity at Christie's NY online. Some of her gowns, jewelry and accessories were being auctioned. I was bid out on one of her concert outfits, but I tried!

[@EmpressReacts]

Oh wow! Hate you didn't get it and loved the fact she designed her own costumes, something the documentary left out

[@lamusiclover2264]

@@EmpressReacts They did leave it out, and they didn't talk about her paintings much either. She was also a painter. She was incredibly talented.

[@jonpark5203]

Donna summer was the "Queen of the disco" i think this song may have been a pete waterman production alongside her other big-hit at this time around the late 80s called "this time its for real" which was a smash hit probably on the same album (correct me if im wrong??) as always great to see your reaction empress and those sparkling white teeth young lady 😁

[@RBS_]

...you're not wrong; "This Time I Know..." & "Loves' About To Change...", both were back to back singles (in the USA), and the 1st & 4th singles, in the UK.....

[@markr.devereux3385]

First of all miss those supercharged eighties. DONNA was a solid superstar with frequent hit songs . Is she still living?lol

[@lamusiclover2264]

She died from lung cancer in 2012 at 63 yo.

[@markr.devereux3385]

@lamusiclover2264 aww. ...that's a shame. Disco wouldn't have been the same without her.

[@lamusiclover2264]

@@markr.devereux3385 she's known as the queen of disco, but if you were to dive into her catalog you would find that she could sing so much more. She could and did literally sing every genre of music. She performed even with lung cancer, and still dang better than most any of today's female singers.

[@markr.devereux3385]

@lamusiclover2264 I don't sit around listening to pop singers like Toni Braxton Celine dion etc. None of them had disco/pop records like hot stuff she works hard for the money bad girls and a few others. Great produced tracks.

[@lamusiclover2264]

@@markr.devereux3385 I wasn't referring to the people you mentioned. They can sing very well. I'm talking about people like Britney Spears, Katy Perry, and everybody else who lip syncs all the time.

[@craigcraigster4999]

Hmm, I think you might've enjoyed this one? 😂 First time for me, and I enjoyed it too. Karen Carpenter ... Donna Summer ... ONJ ... oh how I miss their glorious voices and their inner/outer beauty, thank goodness we have audio and video to keep their legacy alive. Thanks for the wonderful reaction Empress, your big beautiful infectious smile never looked better! 🥳

[@RBS_]

...this was possibly One of Empresses most EXUBERANT posts since the Diana Ross "Swept Away" reaction! ...I flipped, when I got the notification, I KNEW she was gonna LOVE it!

[@TheoriginalMach2000]

the live version she did on Arsenio Hall was pretty much exactly the same as the recorded version. Such an underrated singer. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaPJhqKBZbubarM

[@RBS_]

*...P.S.* ...I am THISCLOSE to stealing that Diana Ross 80's Poster RIGHT off Empresses' WALL! 😆

[@terrygelinas4593]

I remember buying the album. Love her belts and the main section of the song. I wish I could delete that short song bridge ("never knew.....), yikes 😅

[@willfromyadkinville]

i believe this was after she professed to be a Christian. she really put out some great music! R.I.P. beautiful one!

[@michaelasay8587]

I think I would like Empress as a singer...and leave Empress as the name of the new...great... Empress. And when yiu win awards...remember my name. Michael Asay! Haha ...

[@MarkoTrupkovic-zh8ew]

I love the video can you do for next episode song shadows of the night by pat benatar

[@rubioperez1743]

Are we getting madonna tonight?