The tweets were solid gold.
Dionne Warwick, the legendary singer who had 56 singles to hit Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, is just days away from her 80th birthday. As the world prepares for this celebration, the singer has been tearing it up on Twitter.
While she has disclosed that she has “a team” who perhaps help in locating appropriate follow-up GIFs (and who sign their tweets DW Team), she and her aides-de-camp “have the same personality anyway.” (This in contrast to Larry King flipping open his phone, calling a designated voice mail, and having these missives appear online.)
Some of Warwick’s recent hits include asking why Gen Z is always “SCREAMING”, denying a fan’s request for a free PS5, and retweeting her old creative partner Burt Bacharach. (Burt may have written the tunes, but he has a paltry 741 followers compared to her 100K+!)
Warwick’s viral-ness reached a new level on Saturday, though, when she started asking questions about Chance The Rapper. Specifically, why someone who is a rapper would put “The Rapper” in their name.
She followed up with a name change of her own.
Then she continued with the zings, hitting one of Chance’s collaborators.
Chance more than took it in stride, honored to even be on the star’s radar.
With other definite article artists in her scope, she turned her tweets on The Weeknd.
The curiously spelled artist reacted the only way he could: with joy.
Warwick added that she’d be on the hunt for others curious handles, but then went back to one of her hobbies, ragging her son, producer Damon Elliott.
Here is a terrific duet between mother and son from 2012, one on of the greats from her Burt Bacharach era.
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