Quote Originally Posted by midnightman View Post
And Motown wasn't the only label where artists had to play the PR game. For years, the Supremes had to say they were "project girls" when the Brewster Projects that they grew up in was much nicer than what it became after they found fame. It's like when Whitney Houston pretended to be from the streets of Newark but she was really a middle class girl from East Orange [[though that one was something WH came up to "be down" lol).
You are kidding right? The Brewster Projects were extremely rough back in the 1950s when the Supremes were living there. Gangs, drugs and general pandemonium were present during those years.