You Gotta Believe

24 thoughts on “You Gotta Believe”

1. Oh my GOD that is good.

2. Goddess! I love this! The Wilson Sisters woulds likely be Ann and Nancy Wilson of the rock band Heart. OK. I am old.

3. This.Is.Fantastic.
   Thank you!

4. Love the lyrics.
   LOVE the use of ancient women

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6. I LOVE this. Beautiful Godesses brought to life.

7. I like it. Believe, Awesome song and lyrics.

8. Love love love the animation so much!

   It looks like the Wilson Sisters are characters in the movie Car Wash, where this song was used.

   In case it doesn’t come through, this link is to an excerpt of In The Space Of A Song: The Uses of Song In Film, which mentions the Car Wash moment:

   https://books.google.com/books?id=zhupAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=you+gotta+believe+wilson+sisters&source=bl&ots=187WI5Z-rI&sig=R0rai3RbBv1CNe2EccgeMfetVBo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjetr6_yYbZAhVQxWMKHcBtBboQ6AEIWTAL#v=onepage&q=you%20gotta%20believe%20wilson%20sisters&f=false

9. Why “Wilson Sisters”? It because the song was used in the movie “Car Wash” and the Pointers Sisters played a group called The Wilson Sisters.

10. This is THE BEST! It made my day, if not my week or entire month. I’ll be busting this out during Passover!

11. Nina wonderful wonderful…I especially love the way the bodies of these goddesses become live flesh animated. They of course represented real variations in female bodies old and very old and gravid, ocasionnaly young but real body and NOT fertility symbols catherine

12. Hi Nina. Love this! Thank you so much.

    For lyrics section:
    “Stop.
    Take a look at yourself…
    Don’t (refuse??) something something…”

    This:
    “Stop, take a look at yourself
    Stop ridiculin’ everybody else”

    Here’s a copy of the lyrics for you 🙂

    https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/1662134/The+Pointer+Sisters/You+Gotta+Believe

13. Those lyrics are incorrect.

14. Here’s a youtube of the Pointer Sisters singing that song in the movie Car Wash

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=311SPfjsabk

15. Honestly, I’m sickened to see how you have posted this. Given my initial exposure to your work via Facebook… let’s say at first I was excited. A speck of truth I thought… As I dove deeper to see who you were and what you are about behind YOUR WORK. I find the rhetoric deeply offensive. I don’t believe you didn’t know who the Wilson Sister are or were as characters in this movie. See I read your piece talking about the Master’s Tools and using them. You are not clever you are part of the MASSIVE problem you think you address. What is blinding and painful is your confusion when you should have conviction. This positioning offends me not because I am BLACK more so because I am a WOMAN. You had to get the soundtrack track to dissect it. You didn’t do any research to see the Movie CARWASH. You don’t know black people are made invisible belittled marginalized DAILY and those who are musically creative are EXPLOITED. Wow, you must live in a bubble under a really cool rock. MOMGOD Mother Nature is disappointed in your study knowing SELF. You need to really stick with what you KNOW just Sin D and Lay D your blinded eyes. WILL sun sis STARS believing in themselves is FAR FAR above and beyond your EMPTY SHELL fish selfish GRASP. Hey but look you got great positioning via the INTERNET. Abysmal abuse plus archetypical.

16. You Gotta Believe that this song gives me really good vibes every time I hear it. Lovable music, lyrics. Thanks

17. wonderful music and animated video…I’ve listened to it now about seven times in a row. Can’t get enough. CAR WASH is one of my favorite movies…I’d say top 5. I grew up in Toledo, and Detroit music was my great love and Stax from memphis.

18. One other point with the lyrics…difference between ‘believe something’ and your ‘believe IN something’ Little editorializing?
    The sisters/Norman W. Should have sung the ‘in’.

19. This is really a great song. I loved this song. Thanks for sharing.

20. nice lyrics thanks for sharing, I appereciate your work

21. Nina wonderful wonderful…I especially love the way the bodies of these goddesses become live flesh animated. This is my blog :LINK HERE

22. This Is Really A Great Song. Thanks For Sharing With Us.

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24. This is the best video I have seen for many years. You wake up the old godesses and set them alive. After 2000 years of silence the question is absolutely fair, why dont you believe in me?
    The music feels perfect to this video!