02/26/2010- by Natasia Langfelder
If someone had ever told me that one day I would be involved in a blog off with Tammy Lynn Michaels (Etheridge?) I
would have told them they were crazy. But that appears to be where I am now. Last week I posted an article that displayed excerpts of Tammy’s blog, as they were extremely negative and had induced speculation about whether or not she and Melissa were breaking up. tammy responded to me…in VERSE. Click on her name to see the entire blog post about me. Tammy has taken down the blog, but not before diligent Melissa Etheridge fans had saved it and sent it to me.
My first reaction to it was shock. Tammy reads my posts! But actually, it was a little disturbing. It is no surprise that she removed it as it makes her look crazy. Which really proves the point I was trying to make in my post in the first place. As one of the commenters said, “get a private journal.” I don’t know a lot about Tammy, but I never knew she was so out there. I always figured her and Melissa were normal. I have a serious response to her and a more lighthearted one.
The Serious:
Tammy, the message I was trying to send across in that post is that you were bringing media speculation upon yourself and your partner. In the end, I don’t care about your relationship, but there are tons of people who do. There are fans (yours, Melissa’s, both) who are genuinely upset by your thinly veiled attacks on your partner. These women are invested in you both as a couple. It’s not silly and it’s not a joke. You represent that LBQ women can be successful and in love and beautiful. They were the ones that brought your blogs to the attention of LGR writers and they are the ones that you keep guessing. And they are guessing, there are certain Melissa message boards that have banned discussion and speculation of your blog content. I’m sure you know this. The media will have moved onto another story, but your fans, the people who keep you rich and famous won’t. If you truly value them, don’t keep them guessing.
Also, I’m not invisible. I’m not a nameless faceless blogger who exists only to attack people. My full name is on each one of my posts, my picture is on the website. I keep comments enabled for all my posts, so that people can tell me how much they love me or hate me. The last time I checked, you don’t have comments enabled on yours. I’m much more touchable by my readers than you are. I’ve been called every name in the book. I write because I love to write and I have an opinion. In your post, you insult my credentials. No, I don’t have a journalism degree from Columbia. I have a NYC public school education. I was lucky enough to have teachers that cared about me and taught me how to read, write and most importantly, think critically.
I think you are a beautiful woman and I respect you for defending yourself, but I’m not attracted to you. Sorry, female desire is a fickle thing.
Ok enough with the serious. Time for the fun, read my line by line reaction to Tammy’s love poem to me! (I’m in Italics)
hey
(yo)
we don’t know each other do we?
(there is no way this lady is talking to me)
i don’t know you
and you don’t know me
(this is so not me)
it’s okay
we don’t have to act
like you know
what i’m saying
meaning
intending
hoping to get out of you
(unless it makes you feel
more important to report
on my alleged inner feelings and
intentions?)
(um…maybe this is a message for me! In VERSE! Tammy is writing me poetry! Holy Crap! This is so exciting! She reads my posts!)
the last thing i need
is a stranger’s affection – sympathy
or otherwise-
thank you though
the offer was thoughtful
and came from a warm place
i’m sure
(Your welcome! Oh yeah, totally a warm place.)
i like to be optimistic
(Me too! We have so much in common yay!)
you sit behind your screen
and anonymous nickname
hmmm- who needs big girl panties?
(haha yeah, that big girl panty thing was pretty funny. I crack myself up! And I crack up Tammy Lynn! This is going well! See commenters, she likes me! All is well)
not me- you know who i am
where i am
and all of my names
(O yeah, I don’t know if you hypen or not, so really I’m not quite sure. I’m thinking of wikipedia-ing you to find out and now that we like each other, maybe I will try to find out more about your life story or something. Maybe we can be friends!)
and THAT
sweet darlin’
IS wearing big girl panties
big girl thongs, in fact
thongs that ride way far up into
my dark hole bizz-ness
(wait what?)
big girl thongs
i like ‘em
cuz then you can floss
when you’re done eating
(AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. noooooooooooooooooooo really? Are you hitting on me?)
strangers don’t know facts.
hence: a stranger. and not
a family member or friend
or JOURNALIST
(ouchies. whatev, you blog like a Rosie O’Donnell wannabe on crack)
i read what was sent to me
a pompous, silly, trite,
immature, presumptuous gossip
about some fantasies of me….
(Wait, fantasies?)
(much like what we used to send out
in 6th grade
only it took us until senior year
to forget about it
or realize
it wasn’t true after all)
(so lost…)
and i wondered if what you really want
is for me to MAIL you a pair
of my big girl panties?
(huh? wait, NO. You ARE hitting on me! Jeez..for the love of…don’t mail me your panties! I TAKE IT BACK I’M SORRY JUST KEEP YOUR PANTIES ON. I’ll leave you alone I SWEAR)
you want me.
(AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH nooooo I’m engaged!! I love my girlfriend! YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO BE MY MOTHER!)
all that meanness you wrote-
you want me.
you’re just one of those people
who abuse others
and think they’ll climb in bed with you.
THINK AGAIN!!!!
i have changed!!!
(ooo did you used to be a slut? That’s really interesting, I should really wiki you. Is that why Melissa fans don’t like you?)
ah, strangers who call themselves bloggers.
can’t live with ‘em
can’t live without ‘em
(Does that mean you like me?)
but they do get noisy
especially when they get bored
and feel invisible
and want my panties.
(help help! I don’t want your panties, I’m sorry!)
god bless you
(did I sneeze? IS SHE WATCHING ME?)
as you guess
guess
guess
guess
god bless.
(umm…bendicion?…I really don’t want your panties, just FYI. I completely regret saying that now as the image of your hairy dark moist chocolate starfish is now searing into my corneas…does this mean you don’t like me?)
missykrissy
February 28, 2011 at 4:40 pm
OK Krissy from the UK here.
I think unfortunately that this quite mimics heterosexual life.
Melissa decides to find herself a toygirl who is obviously much more beautiful than herself and exploits her beauty for her own ends. While poor Tammy is busy bring up the children, with no time to develop her own needs, Melissa takes advantage of her position and betrays the woman who she has taken sacred vows with to get into the sack with someone (who should know better as a supposed friend) and she does this because with her money and fame she has the power to.
How positively macho!!!!!
Let’s face it (and Im a lesbian too) no one would look at Melissa twice (or even once) if she wasn’t rich or famous and I’m guessing through her touring in her early years she honed her craft at pulling in the ladies who fell for her charms. OK so that was a bit sharp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My heart goes out to Tammy and her children. Im sure she will move on, develop herself and show good ole Melissa by her actions that she is not needed. All this attention melissa gets in the press, only adds to her huge and ugly ego.
By the way I’m also not a musical fan of hers as she sounds like she has drunk a bottle of whisky to achieve that growel of a voice but horses for courses – no accounting for taste.
My mother also always said that ‘as you age your personality shows in your face’ – and she looks mean!!!! OMG I can’t believe im now quoting my mother!!!!
M’s reluctance to pay the full galimoney is based on the fact that if she doesnt want something she doesnt have any responsibilities. Now I dont personally know Tammy and I do hope she doesnt feel that I am being condescending or invasive but all I can wish her is good luck for the future Tammy and shame on you Melissa for embarassing Lesbians of the world with your shoddy behaviour towards a woman who is the mother of your children!!!
klein
September 16, 2010 at 11:52 am
this blog about tammy has been here on this site for months but the first time i seen it. oh might as well ask natasia langfelder why does she think that blogging your heart out in your own site is crazy?! that making broken hearted poems in your own site is hilarious?! natasia if in the future you would have the same fate as tammy with the divorce and all then you might realise that you should have been more decent with your blog.
observant
November 20, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Melissa puts her relationship details in words of song. Maybe if Tammy wrote a song and everyone listened to it, it would make her words better received?
Nicole Oglesbee
July 26, 2010 at 10:14 pm
It’s all very sad. I wish the Best to the entire family. Bailey don’t listen to the jerks. You have two awesome Moms. Stay strong Kiddo
Ruby
July 4, 2010 at 5:30 pm
To anonymousgirl, I thought Matt left and divorced Julie too. I’m sorry but bi to me means you just want to sleep with whoever you want.
Observant
July 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm
If you read Anonymousgirl, it appears she could be ME’S daughter. If so, she would be the one who knows some truth. Maybe wanting to put some truth out there, against TLM’s negativity, too defend ME a little? ME certainly will never comment. ME was a class act with the breakup with JC, and this is no different.
Tess
October 25, 2010 at 10:34 am
Yeah but Julie dumped her, gotta wonder why
rollingmyeyes
May 30, 2010 at 12:55 am
I have much sympathy and admiration for Tammy and she has every right to express herself. Especially if ME is fudging the truth in the press. I don’t think its fair to call Tammy crazy, you took it too far (she must have landed a good hit for you to react this way). Were you expecting a big thank you from her or what? It sucks that another same-sex couple has imploded. One step forward, two steps back. I hope Tammy someday finds peace and love and loyalty. And I hope ME doesn’t play house anymore, she apparently isn’t good at it.
zena
May 12, 2010 at 4:08 am
That was hysterical Natasia. Did I read somewhere you would like to get an interview with Tammy? Which would be great…at some point… I shouldn’t probably care so much. But as a huge Melissa fan and then watching Melissa’s interview on Oprah? “I have to love ME.” Well, duh. I found myself actually feeling nauseated. Seriously? “I have to take care of ME.” And you couldn’t maybe kind of learned how to do that oh I don’t know, just through the normal ups and downs, gives and takes in your marriage? With two toddlers? Not that that’s any work and me-sacrifice. Ah, who am I to judge where Melissa practices how to love herself. Whatever Melissa. Rock on. The world needs you. But I can’t bring myself to buy and appreciate this last album right now. And I love, love her pipes. I bought the Awakening the day it came out, listened to it straight through, had “it’s a simple love” as my ringtone…heh.. this unique combo of songs, one flowing into the other, LOVED it, the seeming love songs to Tammy….deep, and beautiful, and true. Finally, I’m thinkin, Melissa knows and appreciates the real deal. NOT. What the.. What the hell happened. So I’d just be curious to hear from Tammy. At some point in time. When the dust settles. I’d hate to think my real deal Melissa is another shallow celeb who can’t see thru the temporary mucky times in a long term relationship. (oh, there I go again) Cuz, it IS hard sometimes, and it IS sacrifice to have kids and make it work.
Yeah, so, maybe she’s better suited to being in front of a crowd. And get the message out. And I haven’t had cancer. Just felt for Tammy thru her blogs…she’s not out to impress anybody… It’s her forum and I’m glad to see she’s still writing in a public domain. She sure as hell is not crazy imo. But the opposite — smart and sane and funny, insightful, bodacious, raucous, –all of it, like all of us, and let’s be clear (because well, clarity – good) when you’ve lived with crazy and coped with crazy you’re not gonna appear sane to anyone who hasn’t been anywhere friggin near where you’ve been. Write on, Tammy. Write on.
cruh
May 12, 2010 at 8:54 am
Well said, zena….you nailed how I feel EXACTLY!!!!
freedomofspeech????
May 11, 2010 at 3:36 pm
i think the announcement was timed with her new cd release to try to bring her exposure and try to capitilize off of it…i am no longer a fan of ME…and have not been for a while…she seems phony to me.
Kate
May 4, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Somehow this got printed 2 times sorry! Kate
Bridgette P. LaVictoire
May 4, 2010 at 6:57 pm
No worries. We’ve had a few issues with the comments. I went ahead and took care of the repeats. We also monitor the comments, so it may be a bit before something gets posted. We do try to get things out as quickly as possible.
Natasia Rose
May 4, 2010 at 6:59 pm
xoxo kate
Lisa
May 1, 2010 at 5:49 pm
I’m sorry, that was FUNNY……..your tongue in cheek replies to her post were freaking hilarious! Natasia, you are the bomb……and I promise I won’t send you big girl butt floss ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Natasia Rose
May 1, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Thanks Lisa! U r awesome. If I made you smile than all the haterade is totally worth it.
anonymousgirl
July 4, 2010 at 9:40 am
I AGREE WITH LISA
DL
April 27, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Natasia, you´re very childish
Ruby
April 30, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Has Julie Cypher decided that she’s gay again? Maybe
Kate
May 4, 2010 at 6:43 pm
I don’t think Natasia is childish but quite the contrary she has a lot of insight and the right to blog about it if she wants to so who are you to judge her as childish? I think you are a Hollywood junkie to stick up for these stars that don’t give a rat’s ass about you or anyone but their selfish selves and that is born out int the stupid blog Tammy wrote I mean don’t you think Big Girl Thongs and flossing after eating is childish? I think it’s sick and no wonder Tammy has been seeing a shrink since age 3. Did you know that? She said it and she comes from a dysfunctional family go ahead and look up the in depth interview she and Melissa gave a couple months after their marriage.
anonymousgirl
July 4, 2010 at 9:39 am
TO RUBY- No, Julie is bi, and currently married to a nice guy named Matt.
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Lucky
April 15, 2010 at 6:31 am
What a low comment on a blog; One thing,…People get a life and F*CK off. “Go DiamondShoe Go…”
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kukla
March 11, 2010 at 2:18 am
I am a Melissa fan – have been for years and have been a member of her fan club since the beginning. With that being said – I have to say that I feel that Tammy is kind of getting a raw deal. Yes – she has been posting some poetry that is rather bleak these days – but that is her forum and she can post whatever she wants to post. That is her outlet. We don’t know what she has been going through and we aren’t in her shoes – so I think people should leave her alone. Melissa fans need to remember that Melissa is just a person – she has her own issues – just like we all do. The only difference is that she can write songs and sing her way through her struggles and still continue to be loved and adored while the majority of us have to deal with things by talking or journaling – and then possibly get ridiculed or condemned for it. That seems to be happening in Tammy’s case. In my opinion – those people who are bothered by Tammy’s blog should just stop reading it. I, on the other hand, will continue to read. Whatever Tammy writes will not make me think any less of her, nor will it make me think any less of Melissa (if it seems to pertain to her) What I have been feeling lately after reading the blogs is sadness. I don’t know either one of them – but they both seem like good people who are having a really rough time. From what I have read, Tammy is hurting – she isn’t being malicious – just expressing her pain. Cut her some slack. If it is true that they are splitting up or have done so already, not only is she facing losing the one she thought she was spending her life with – but she has to worry about raising her children alone as well. That pretty much would suck. I hope that whatever is going on that they can work thorough it and make it work.
cruh
March 11, 2010 at 11:03 am
kukla….(fran & ollie?) ur opinion is so concise and well stated…..just finished reading Tammy’s most recent blog and it feels like she’s in a MUCH better space now……she puked all over the universe and is moving in a less hurt and angry sphere…..for THAT moment, anyway. I too have been a Melissa fan ever since I was driving tractor on the plains of Colorado and heard her perform live on a local radio station back in the late 80′s….I remember thinking, “She’s singin’ to a chick!!!!!!” At least in MY mind anyway (music is really just ALL in our own perception). For me….. the disappointment in Tammy and Melissa “allegedly” splitting up reflects the same disappointment that I feel when the people in my life commit to each other for life and then walk away…..I think I would be less hurt if people just live together without making such a HUGE deal about committing. Melissa & Tammy represented something beautiful to the gay community but ended up being just another reflection of our sick and dying society……I wish both women well but……they’re just humans…..like the rest of us (only I can’t scream in tune and put raw emotion in words and make cash in the process……) Peace out…..
Tess
October 25, 2010 at 10:31 am
Right on Kukla! Tammy blogs about her broken heart and gets kickd in the teeth for it and Melissa writes nasty shit in her songs and publishes them for the world to see and she gets praised. That is just wrong! I hope Tammy takes her to the cleaners!
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Sad
February 28, 2010 at 7:06 am
Did it ever occur to you that Melissa is not speaking out because she has teenage children who read the internet and she would rather try to just get through this with as little publicity as possible and protect her children? If Melissa makes an announcement about this, every gossip magazine and gossip website and gossip TV show will want to talk about it and what good can possibly come of that? The only thing that is served by Melissa speaking out about this is to satisfy the nosey gossips and nosey fans, all of whom should just mind their own business and leave Melissa to deal with her personal life challenges in her own time at her own discretion.
That said, Tammy is the worst offender in this regard with her silly childish blogs. Tammy and Natasia, both of you need to grow up. All you are doing with this silly banter is to draw more negative attention to the situation. If you want to do something nice for Melissa Etheridge, go find something productive to do and stop harassing her with your childish blogs, both of you.
Kate
May 4, 2010 at 6:28 pm
To “SAD” I think you are going over board a bit, I agree with Justagirl , good for you for calling her out on her bull shit. The fact is I don’t care about their damn breakup and if Natasia wants to speak or blog her mind and I do admit it was funny she has the first amendment right to freedom of speech. F.Y.I. they only have 2 kids and they are not quite teens yet and the other 2 are babies 4 years. I’m sure if the kids were are in to the internet because they do teach computers in Kindergarten you know they would be playing internet games or something else other than to care about seeking out their mommies bust up.You Sad are naive about the reality of life in show business and if Tammy blogs and throws hints and an intelligent person calls her on it and then Tammy responds like she is cool shit with Big Girl Panties and does not have any class that she has to say you can use the Big Girl Thongs to floss is a pretty disgusting and nasty thing for her to say. If she does not want any fans of her cheating partner to know any of their business than write about something else because this Tammy will die away in the public eye as Julie did because they are not really famous like Melissa Etheridge is. I would have to agree after reading that nasty disgusting Tammy blog that she is by no means a poet. She is an immature asshole who doesn’t foresee that if she writes about her life with the cheating Melissa it is going to be speculated in the blogs Tammy writes . I would say to Tammy grow the frig up or don’t write because who needs to hear a rich B actress whine and moan about the muse. You should be kind to your fans or get the hell out of show business because fans can turn against you in a heartbeat and then you will be nothing in Hollyland home of the fame and lame.It looks like the stones shattered their world.
anonymousgirl
July 4, 2010 at 9:36 am
TO KATE-
First off, yes, Melissa’s children are teenagers. And yes, they read these kind of posts. In fact, one of them is reading it right now. AHEM.
Anyway.
TO SAD- Thank you for your comment. Thank you for sticking up for Melissa and her kids.
To everyone- Yes, Tammy’s writing sucks. Let’s all agree on that. She’s also a highly dramatic person that likes to exaggerate. Melissa never cheated on her. I know that for a fact. The reason Melissa left her is all in Tammy. Tammy was mean and abusive to Melissa’s children and to Melissa herself. OF COURSE she got dumped on her ass. Her fat ass, i might add. She deserved it. Now she can live on her own in her little fantasy world where she does nothing and is simply a poor victim in this world. Give melissa custody of all the children, and don’t make her pay child support to Tammy.
Thank you, Natasia. There are only a few of us willing to stand up to Tammy, and you kicked her fat ass! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!
Tess
October 25, 2010 at 10:22 am
AHEM…. You know if this is really Bailey Jean, which I doubt, your ass isn’t so slim either, and Melissa’s ass, well, for Hollywood, all your asses are downright honkin. If Tammy was so abusive then why did Melissa leave the children with her? You have no right to bash Tammy, you are just a jealous spoiled little fat brat growing up in Hollywood and getting all the useless expensive crap you can ever want. Look, Melissa is a narcissistic, self centered azzhole. It is always just about her, her music, her life, her songs, her album, her concert, her pussy, her kids, me me me me me me me me, she should write a song titled ME ME ME ME, Meemee should be her nickname. She did not bear any of these kids and none of them have her DNA!!!!!! So Tammy and Julie should have custody!! period! Look, she is a has been anyway and her music sucks. Like one of those aging rockers who still have the 80′s hair and clothes and won’t give them up for fear of everyone forgetting, so they look downright rediculous!. Truth is, Melissa’s fan base is just Lesbians no one else, and not all Lesbians like her, I liked her for about a year and then realized that ALL her songs sound the same and that annoying wail gives me a frigging headache! . Another thing, why why why would Melissa insist on David Crosby donating sperm? For crying out loud he may have the talent gene but he also has a raging addiction gene as well and it is a doozy, not only that but this guy pickled himself but good, I am sure those sperms were not all that healthy! DUMB!
As for Natasha, you do not know Tammy, she is right. You have no idea what this did to her or what it was like living with a narcissistic bitxh for 9 years so shut up.
Tess
October 25, 2010 at 10:26 am
One more thing, Baily Jean, (not) how do you know for a fact that Melissa never cheated? You are a little girl and should stay out of it, the twins are not related to you in any way! You share no DNA, Melissa is not even related to any of you! So put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Bemused.
February 28, 2010 at 2:23 am
Natasia, all you did in your original blog was regurgitate what has already been said on internet forums (and the forums, since you didn’t name them, are Datalounge and L Anon, and the forum which is censoring discussion on the apparent break-up is Melissa Etheridge’s official forum).
To be fair to Tammy (I don’t know her nor support her), she has not engaged in any ‘blog war’ with you as she pulled her response (something you acknowledge). Yet you, Natasia, have now chosen to fan the flames of speculation and cast aspersions on Tammy’s mental health by publishing her pulled response.
It’s sad when a high profile lesbian couple break-up – it doesn’t look good for Melissa Etheridge (a vocal support of gay marriage), and it doesn’t look good for the lesbian community. Let’s just wait for an official announcement (which they are free to make in their own time or whenever their money-makers deem appropriate).
I agree, Tammy’s writing is bad, but Natasia, people in glass houses should not throw stones!
cruh
March 1, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Bemused… “or whenever their money-makers deem appropriate”……. ahhhh….and there’s the rub….. entertainers are the quintessential capitalists and enjoy their lifestyle at the whim of a fickle public….
I was dubious about Melissa’s political leanings these past few years anyway and refuse to throw any more of my money her way. In pictures published these last couple of months, Melissa looks drawn and tired so I’m thinking she’s hurting too…..I firmly believe that most humans (straight, gay, beastialists, necrophiliacs, etc.) are too selfish and therefore, incapable of maintaining a long term, committed relationship. For the couples capable of maintaining their commitments…….God love ya’ and keep up the good work…..But I’m ever-lovin’ tired of hearing, “But I meant it when I said it……”
Billy
February 27, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Before I was upset – thinking that it was no one business – that their relationship and break-up were their own business, but I must say that now it has just gotten annoying. I have also spent sometime online and Melissa has not wore her wedding ring since Dec and Tammy’s blogs have been pretty point black in regards to a break-up. I think that it is very sad, they seemed to be so in love. But I also feel that whether or not they have or have no broken up, they need to address all the rumors. Tammy’s blogs make it appear that they are broken up, so one would think that Melissa would want to “Speak True” about it and at least lay the rumors to rest: either they have simply separated or if they have completely broken-up… it just seems out of character for Melissa.
Anyway, just my two cents. Thanks for the blog, it is a great blog!!
Justagirl
February 28, 2010 at 1:17 am
OMG! That is the funniest blog I have read in a long time!!!Good for you for calling her on her shit, and in such an entertaining manner! Bravo, Girl.
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