Monday, 21 February 2022 — New Frame
[If you’ve not listened to Betty Davis and you’re into the funk and into truly liberated women, then Betty Davis is for you. Read on… B]
The American funk pioneer ruffled feathers in the 1970s, creating a feminist message spanning three albums that still resonates today.
- By: Lloyd Gedye
Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva
During a 2005 interview with journalist James Maycock, 1970s funk pioneer Betty Davis said she’d never felt ahead of her time. That she recorded three astounding albums in the early part of that decade that only got their due when reissued early in the new millennium suggests that she was, but Davis made an important distinction: “I don’t think I was ahead of my time, I think I was just testing the time.”