{"id":174221,"date":"2023-01-01T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dionne-warwick-discusses-her-twitter-talent-and-her-new-documentary\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:45:04","slug":"dionne-warwick-discusses-her-twitter-talent-and-her-new-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dionne-warwick-discusses-her-twitter-talent-and-her-new-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionne Warwick discusses her Twitter talent and her new documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Editor’s Note: <\/b>The CNN Film \u201cDionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over\u201d premieres Sunday, January 1, at 9 pm ET exclusively on CNN.\n<\/p>\n

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Dionne Warwick wishes younger artists today would be more cognizant of what they are saying and the possible ramifications.\n <\/p>\n

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The legendary singer told CNN she believes social media factors into some reckless commentary, one of the reasons she decided to join Twitter.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cI was with my nieces and nephews and they were just giggling and carrying on because their little thumbs were going mad, and I wanted to know what they were laughing about,\u201d Warwick said. \u201cMy niece, Brittani, showed me what she was looking at and I was not too pleased with what she was looking at.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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Warwick said she asked her niece, “Is this always the way [Twitter] work?”\n <\/p>\n

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Upon learning it was, indeed, a platform for a lot of nonsense, she requested that her niece to help her get started with her own account so she could share some sense.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cShe showed me and I immediately went on and let these babies know that now a grown up is in your presence,\u201d Warwick said, laughing.\n <\/p>\n

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That type of moxie is on display in the new CNN documentary \u201cDionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over,\u201d which traces the incredible life and career of the first Black woman to win a Grammy in the pop music category.\n <\/p>\n

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Warwick said the project offered her a nice stroll down memory lane.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are a lot of things that, to be honest with you, I had forgotten about,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd to see them again was like, ‘Oh,yeah, I remember that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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In all fairness, Warwick has achieved so much it would be easy to overlook some accomplishments.\n <\/p>\n

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She said she is pleased with the completed documentary, as well as her title as the unofficial \u201cQueen of Twitter\u201d for her pithy commentary on the platform. Even more importantly, she said, she believes she’s made a difference in helping convince some to bring down the temperature when it comes to social media discourse.\n <\/p>\n

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So much so, Warwick said that the site’s former chief executive officer Jack Dorsey reached out to thank her.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cHe called, he says ‘Thank you, thank you.’ I said, ‘What are you thanking me for?’\u201d she recalled. \u201cHe said, ‘You have no idea that with what you said, all of a sudden these tweets are changing.’ I said, well, that’s the idea.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know, let these kids know that there is a way to say anything they wanna say, but there’s a way to say it though,\u201d Warwick added. \u201cAnd I let them all know that a smile carries more pressure and more pleasure than a frown.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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she recently tweeted a survey asking if she should take over as head of Twitter<\/a> from Elon Musk, and, unsurprisingly, the results were a resounding yes – even though the options she cheekily offered were either \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cyeah.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n