Poptastic Confessions!: Today is Jody Watley Day!

Dear Poptastic Readers,

This year, The Queen of Cool and Grammy Award Winner Jody Watley is celebrating the 35^th anniversary of her self-titled debut album. The city of Atlanta, Georgia has declared today as Jody Watley Day! AND Jody has received the prestigious Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award! HOORAY! Read more about it on her website: JodyWatley.net. #JodyWatleyDay

Image from JodyWatley.net

As you know here at Poptastic Confessions that we love Jody Watley’s music and we think she is an AMAZING artist who has been putting out quality music for the past 35 years. Of course, Jody is most well-known for her amazing singles:

“Looking For A New Love”

“Friends” featuring Eric B. and Rakim

“Everything”

“I Want You”

“I’m The One You Need”

Poptastic Confessions has been featuring Jody’s music for the last 9 years and these are the songs with their placements in our year end countdowns (She's been at #1 twice!) ...

“Nightlife” was #1 in 2013

"Dancing Out" with French Horn Rebellion & Young Empires was #32 of 2013

“Dancer” was #3 in 2014

“Sanctuary” was #21 in 2014

“SlowDance” with SRL was #18 in 2015

“The Mood” with SRL was #1 in 2016

“O.R.I.G.In.A.L.” with SRL was #25 in 2016

“Waiting In Vain” was #5 in 2018

“The Passion” with SRL was #17 in 2018

"Just Werrrk" with French Horn Rebellion was #48 of 2018

“Good Good Reason” with Brian Power was #6 in 2019

"The Healing" was lucky #13 in 2020

"Weigh On Me" with SRL was #57 in 2020

"Not A Single Day Goes By" was #12 in 2021

"Whenever" was #41 in 2021

In January of 2019, we had a post wishing Jody a very Happy 60th Birthday! We also featured a playlist with our Top 60 favourite Jody Watley songs. You can listen here ...