Crystal Waters On Being Hurt By 'In Living Color,' Michael K. Williams & Hip Hop Taking Over House 

Yabba Dabba Doo!!!! Kim Wayans parody was hilarious 😂 lol 😆 I still watch it till this day!

I'm glad shes laughing about the parody today. She got the last laugh, Crystal's song made millions.

Kim Wayans spoof will go down in history still watching in 2024

Absolutely loved "Gypsy Woman" and 100%, partied at the club with these songs many a night.

The tune is timeless, so timeless. And so is the parody!

I love Crystal Waters music!! I wish I was around for this era with these icons house music, disco, funk, and rock and roll.

Gypsy Woman is one of my favorite songs! I live in NYC and I still hear this song being played all the time

I'm glad that she can laugh at it now, because it's still hilarious in 2023😂😂😂

Club music was so huge in the 90s!

I’ll never forget seeing the 100% pure love video on mtv when it was new and being absolutely mind blown - it still gets me today

I’m thankful that house music never left the uk 🇬🇧 it’s still thriving to this day. I still hear ‘gypsy woman’ either the original version, or sampled by other artists.

Gypsy Woman is an evergreen with a profound message. Crystal with this beautiful name of course you were and still are ahead of your time. Still gorgeous, shining. Thank you for this great informative interview

Parody is the ultimate form of flattery. People loved that Song 🎧 🎵🎶🎵 Timeless Classic Now!

I use to play Gypsy woman back to back! I love it and I always received the message. I always wonder how Crystal Waters felt about the in living color song

Move to Denver Colorado 96 and discovered every top 20 single sound song in existence has a house version

She made a house music song about someone homeless #Ironic

Liked and Shared. Great Interview!!

Well some DJs knew how to be smart when hip hop came. They combined hip hop and house music and made songs like “The Power” (Snap!), “Gonna Make You Sweat” (Martha Wash / C+C Music Factory), etc

This interview was excellent! Very informative.

Proud to say I’ve got the original on vinyl & I still hear it in clubs and bars. So many younger people love it now

Great interview ❤❤❤ Thank you !!!

It makes me love the original more!

Love this woman made possibly my favorite song of all time

I LOVED EVERY SONG SHE MADE!!!! I I USED TO TEAR THE CLUB UP TO HER SHIT.

I never understood the time that pass between the first single and second single when both songs appear on the album

I’m bout to stream her album I don’t think I listen to it in entirety

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Very good interview, asked some good questions. I initially watched this to hear about her reaction to the In Living Color parody

i still listen to gypsy woman and other songs by crystal waters such as making happy

I didn't know her kids got bullied for that spoof video!😢

I do legit love her music work and am so glad she's still producing new EDM hits. It just seems that more people saw the annoying video and assumed that was the actual song. Either way, the spoof on In Living Color is a hoot. Glad she can guffaw about it now.

I still love that woman.

Amen.....we stand on the shoulders of Giants...of those men and women that allowed me to marry my husband ......words can never say how grateful to them

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Everytime I think Crystal Waters I think destination Calabria by Alex Gaudino

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I like pop culture comedy and pretty much everyone in the public eye can and should be a subject of ridicule, but when that In Living Color sketch suggested she was 'untalented' they went way too far. You can mock a great song for being idiosyncratic and offbeat, but don't say it's 'bad' (which Gypsy Woman certainly isn't).

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Yes I agree people use to put being gay with house music and rap was different back then.

To be fair to Crystal, the In Living Color parody was particularly cruel in putting Crystal down. It wasn't just a play on the words, but there were lines implying she had no talent and anyone like her could write a song by looking at cartoons and coming up with words. And that it was funny that she became successful as if she was pulling one on the audience.

Living Color bodied careers in 90 seconds

Really great questions..and of course Crystal always on everyones heart....

She is a music Icon Vegan Chef KESS

I think it had less to do with hip hop's popularity and more to do with the fact that the radio stations nationwide were bought out by 2 or 3 corporations whose main purpose were to sell ad buys... house music is usually not radio friendly but if a song does break through they'd do a radio mix, problem was these new stations didn't support latenight mixshows (ad buys again) so songs had a harder time being exposed to break through... on top of a nationwide playlist, the playlist itself were extremely limiting... you can than republicans (and bill clinton the palatable republican) for the weakening of our anti-trust laws that would curtail these corporate buy outs that ALWAYS end up destroying it's own means of profit...

House music Came From The Underground got snatched up by the mainstream and was not appreciated anymore it still has a beat and our heart but once mainstream touched it screwed it all over... Hip-house was such a joke to me

Please tell her she is big in South Africa.

Omg! Grow up. They spoofed everything. Most take it as a badge of honor.

just like the yankovic bump

Haha hee , haha ha 😅😅😅

Gypsy Woman was great. I didn't get the Living Colour spoof at all. Seemed like the writer(s) of the skit missed the whole point of the song

Its a shame house music was just being associated with being gay when house in all essence is black music

Imitation is a form of flattery.

Poetic Justic...Perfect Karma, because it seems that many people that were made fun of on In Living Color are still workin and pluggin while the show itself is a memory!!!😊

Regarding the spoof, at least social media didn't exist back then. It would have been waayy worse for her kids. But yeah, I didn't agree with the way they did the spoof. The song is awesome and catchy. Shout out to Crystal Waters for making an awesome 90s house jam💞

Crystal Waters is a GOAT

100%, Gypsy Woman and let’s not forget the other absolute banger “In De Ghetto”

Dont you dare take away freedom of speech and a joke! Yabba Dabba Doo

I mean, Vanilla got it worst

You don’t have to pay on a parody of a song. No clearance needed. Weird Al ask the artist to be nice.

Lol she got offended?

And I bet she gave all the money she made to the homeless girl who inspired her to push the play button on the Dr. Rhythm and caterwaul on top of it.

the parody was 100% funny - the original song was 100% lame (yeah, i said it)

The parody sucked lol

The parody was funny. The original song was trash

I literally only know Gypsy Woman because of the parody, it got stuck in my head so i had to go buy the cd. I dont think anyone of my friends would have ever given that song, or that genre of music a chance if it hadnt been for that parody.

AND!!!!...look I love Ms. Crystal Waters..seen her live etc....BUT there were at least 2 before Crystal in that realm that can actually sing their asses off....Robin S AND Kim English...they busted out that house/gospel genre before anyone ever heard of Crystal.....just saying...neither one of them lip sync their way through..