History Creator / GraceJones

* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Woman]]: She played TheDragon to BigBad Max Zorin in ''Film/AViewToAKill'' to great effect, with a perfect balance of DeathGlare, ruthlessness and lethality. Zula from ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'' might also qualify, depending on how one perceives her BloodKnight and ScreamingWarrior tendencies.

->''"Don't mess around with the Demolition Man'"''

Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948 in Spanish Town, UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}) is a Jamaican-American [[FashionModel fashion icon]], singer and actress.

** Early CD releases of ''Living My Life'' replace the Jean-Paul Goude photo of Jones with a still from the ConcertFilm ''A One-Woman Show'', depicting a headshot of Jones in sunglasses awash in blue light.

* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'' soundtrack (2014) [[note]]The song "Original Beast"[[/note]]

Jones had acting roles in movies such as the {{blaxploitation}} picture ''Gordon's War'', ''Film/{{Vamp}}'', ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/AViewToAKill'' and ''Film/{{Boomerang}}''. On a more trivia note, she convinced her then-bodyguard turned boyfriend Creator/DolphLundgren to make himself a career in acting, starting with a small role in the aforementioned ''A View to a Kill''.

* ''Film/{{Boomerang| 1992}}'' (1992) as Helen Strangé

* ReCut: Most CD releases of ''Slave to the Rhythm'' shorten down "Jones the Rhythm" and "The Fashion Show", replace the album mix of "Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones" with the single version, omit the spoken-word interludes in "The Crossing", and both extend "The Frog and the Princess" and move it down from track 3 to track 5. The result is a considerably different experience compared to the LP version, with only the US CD and the 2015 remaster following the vinyl configuration.

* MinstrelShows: The music video for "Living My Life" depicts Jones trapped in an abstract interpretation of a minstrel show, surrounded by mocking ballerinas in caricatured blackface masks. The ballerinas, a curt reference to the Delusions of Eloquence trope's prevalence in minstrelsy, are contrasted by Jones' defiant performance as part of her commentary on the relationship between black performers like herself and the entertainment industry.

* RearrangeTheSong: ''Slave to the Rhythm'' turns this trope into an outright art form, consisting of eight distinct variations on the same base track. It was only supposed to be one single, but producer Music/TrevorHorn was so satisfied with the eight different mixes he made that he simply released all of them at once.

* RearrangeTheSong: ''Slave to the Rhythm'' turns this trope into an outright art form, consisting of eight distinct variations on the same base track. It was only supposed to be one single, but producer Trevor Horn was so satisfied with the eight different mixes he made that he simply released all of them at once.

Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948 in Spanish Town) is a Jamaican-American [[FashionModel fashion icon]], singer and actress.

* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Woman]]: She played TheDragon to BigBad Max Zorin in ''A View to a Kill'' to great effect, with a perfect balance of DeathGlare, ruthlessness and lethality. Zula from ''Conan the Destroyer'' might also qualify, depending on how one perceives her BloodKnight and ScreamingWarrior tendencies.

* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'' soundtrack (2014, song "Original Beast")

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Hurricane Dub'', a second CD included with the 2011 re-release of ''Hurricane'', is a dub remix of the base album.

* AmbiguousGender: Her main appeal as a model and performer in TheEighties was her androgynous appearance.

* CoverAlbum: Jones' early albums; as her career progressed, she'd gradually shift away from covers in favor of original material.

* RearrangeTheSong: ''Slave to the Rhythm'' turns this trope into an outright art form, consisting of eight distinct variations on the same base track.

** ''Warm Leatherette'' shifts away from her early {{disco}} work in favor of {{reggae}}-infused NewWaveMusic, reflective of the DiscoSucks movement in the US that galvanized around that time.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Warm Leatherette'' shifts away from her early {{disco}} work in favor of {{reggae}}-infused NewWaveMusic, reflective of the DiscoSucks movement in the US that galvanized around that time.

* ''Film/{{Boomerang}}'' (1992) as Helen Strangé

* [[invoked]]WhatCouldHaveBeen: Grace was once set to reappear in the Film/JamesBond franchise, with a cameo in the Jamaica scenes of ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', but she quit within ''minutes'' upon seeing how small her part was.

* TitleConfusion: When the single "Slave to the Rhythm" was included on the album of the same name, it was retitled ''Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones'', with a completely different song being turned into the new TitleTrack. Essentially, the original "Slave to the Rhythm" is ''not'' the album's "Slave to the Rhythm", nor is it called "Slave to the Rhythm" on said album.

* ReCut: Most CD releases of ''Slave to the Rhythm'' shorten down "Jones the Rhythm" and "The Fashion Show", replace the album mix of "Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones" with the single version, omit the spoken-word interludes in "The Crossing", and both extend "The Frog and the Princess" and move it down from track 3 to track 5. The result is a considerably different experience to the LP version, with only the US CD and the 2015 remaster following the vinyl configuration.

She started her career in TheSeventies in high fashion meccas like New York and Paris, modelling for prestigious designers of that field such as UsefulNotes/YvesSaintLaurent and Kenzo. Her trademark androgynous beauty was captured by renowned photographers such as Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and Hans Feurer, and made her a muse for avant-garde artists like Creator/AndyWarhol and a prominent cover subject for magazines like Elle and Vogue. She also had much influence on the {{crossdress|er}}ing trends of TheEighties, and even to this day she has her DragQueen imitators.

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