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This review originally ran on March 24th, 2021.
The story of Tina Turner has been told before.
How do you bow out slowly, just go away?
Turner asks rhetorically inTina.
A great artist is always supposed to exit the stage with the audience craving more encores.
That single pairing of sound and visual captures the contradiction of her entire early career.
This was long before #MeToo.
For Turner, it was more like #JustMe.
Domestic abuse was not discussed openly in that era.
To speak as frankly as she did was a risk.
She said, No, Tina, Turner recalls.
Its going to do just the opposite.
Its going to break everything wide open.
She says she agreed to publishI, Tinato get the journalists off my back.
There truly arent words for the amount of energy and sensuality she brought to every performance.
Kurt, Ive been through at this point she smacks a table fucking tons of heartbreak.
Photos of Turner without makeup and sans her famous wild blond mane appear onscreen as she talks.
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