Rick James dated actress Linda Blair from 1982 to 1984. They met after James read an interview where Blair called him sexy.
My recollection is that it was more like "I would hit that." This was back when dead tree publications were the only game in town, before the worldwide web made things even more complicated, when it was somewhat reasonable for her to assume she was having a "private" conversation with the interviewer and Rick James probably wouldn't hear about her comment.
So she probably was surprised when he sought her out and pursued her romantically. It probably never crossed her mind that interview remark might have consequences.
He was Black, she's White and the Wikipedia article indicates she got pregnant and aborted the baby without discussing it with him and goes on to say:
His hit song "Cold Blooded" was about his relationship with Blair. "It was about how Linda could freeze my blood," he wrote in his memoir.
Yeah, see, what I had always heard was that he wrote the song Super Freak about her. The above is news to me. They may both be true, but I'm seeing no mention of the song Super Freak being about her.
History gets rewritten when things go sour and then younger people don't hear things that older people thought was common knowledge and now cannot prove. Then we get called senile.
If you blog or even just use social media, be careful what you "wish for," so to speak. The person you only know via their music or other public works might hear about your daydreaming and take it very seriously.
Me and planet Earth do not appear to be on the same page about a LOT of things. I've at times thought about joking in one of my blogs about hooking up with some celebrity or whatever and then decided against that because I'm not interested in finding myself in Linda Blair's shoes and going "Oh. My. That one off remark is having unexpected consequences."
I have a hard enough time trying to get ordinary people to understand that I'm extremely conservative, have this BIZARRE old-fashioned fetish that went out of style last century of being into intimacy and emotional bonding and blah blah blah and I don't really care how gorgeous you are, it's not good enough reason to sleep with you.
I also don't really care how much money you make except as threat assessment. Rich men who are used to being in charge can be aggravating to deal with.
Other women may dig you for that. There's a not nice term for such women and if you are all "Hey baby! I have loads of money!" and also whining about how badly your women treat you and wondering why money doesn't get me out of my clothes....
1. "There's your problem!" as they say in snark land.
2. Money can't buy you love.
3. I'm quite clear if I were selling it, I would charge cash upfront, not marry well and then euphemistically call it love knowing love has nothing to do with it.
My idea of being polite and diplomatic seems to be read by a lot of people as romantic interest or something. If you ever trip across me talking about you online, it's not a marriage proposal, it's not a suggestion that I want to breath new life into a long dead flame, etc.
I probably wrote it imagining that it's not a problem to say something nice about someone who will probably never read it anyway. I would just like to speak my mind without first waiting for everyone I've ever met or heard about to die.
At best, it's a good excuse for starting a conversation with me from your end. I'm absolutely not trying to start a personal relationship with you from my end by talking ABOUT you publicly instead of WITH you privately.