Tammy Lynne Michaels Opens Up About Her Abuse!

Melissa Etheridge’s wife, actress Tammy Lynne Michaels is speaking out for the first time about the years of abuse she suffered as a child.

Here is a short exerpt from her blog
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i remember watching oprah everyday back in the eighties, her hair larger and fluffier than any other's. beautiful. i liked her low voice, her no-nonsense warmth, and her quick-to-laugh-at-herself trait. i don't recall the specific of one show, i only have a vivid recollection of hearing her saying she'd been molested. and how it took her years to understand that it wasn't her fault, that it wasn't her shame to carry, and so on. i didn't hear the rest. i couldn't imagine having the confidence to say the things she was saying. it had never occurred to me to say my nightmares aloud, let alone share the facts with total strangers or an audience of fans. in that moment, in that ice-cold, bone chilling moment of shame-recognition, the securing thought fleeted through my mind: "i'll never tell anyone." and with the promise to myself to lock away the all-too-clear memories, i was able to swallow my spoonful of marshmallow fluff.

Melissa Etheridge & Queen Latifah Coming Out!

Melissa Etheridge & Queen Latifah are coming out with new albums tomorrow take some time and chack them out.

Queen Latifah's Trav'lin' Light is a Jazz/Soul album with cover songs from female vocalists who've inspired her, PeggyLee, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae, Roberta Flack, Mary Wells, Phoebe Snow, and more.

Melissa Etheridge's Awakening her ninth studio album is described as "A journey full of joys and tears, portrayed in songs that are at turns powerful and playful, at once confessional and engaging, personal and universal. In other words, Melissa Etheridge at her creative peak – and the most open she's ever been."

The Awakening Threesome!

SHE’S BACK! Melissa Etheridge’s new album titled The Awakening, will be released on Sept. 25. The press release states "The album is my story and my journey. I hope that it will ring universally. I began to retrace the path of my own American dream: from my early years in California in the '80s, to my dream for fame and fortune and my sad realization of the false images that lead so many of us into misery." Honestly that sounds…Interesting, I think.

But what is interesting is the track titled "Threesome," which the press release describes as "a country-rocker that is unlikely to be covered by Carrie Underwood.” Nice! Maybe it will be the country rock version of “My Neck, My Back”! We need some dirty lesbian rock in the world.

The album's first single, "Message to Myself," can be heard on her Myspace Page http://www.myspace.com/melissaetheridge

Lilith Fair Orgy?

Hold your breath on October 2nd Pop diva Annie Lennox will release her fourth solo album, Songs of Mass Destruction. On a track titled “Sing” Lennox is collaborating with some of the The Lick List favorite artists, so many female singers it sounds like a Lilith Fair Orgy. Melissa Etheridge, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Faith Hill, Pink, Dido, Gladys Knight, K.D. Lang, Bonnie Raitt, Shakira, Fergie, Joss Stone and KT Tunstall. But profits from the single will go to Treatment Action Campaign a human rights and HIV/AIDS non-profit. Sounds like to many diva’s for one track but since it’s for such a good cause and for the super hot Lennox will give her the benefit of the doubt.