The ’80s had the best of these I speak of Scritti Politti’s “Perfect Way,” Jane Wiedlin’s “Rush Hour,” and Hipsway’s “The Honeythief” to name but three. That joyous pop song that is carried in on the first warm breeze of April and whets your appetite for pool parties and humid afternoons. We talk a lot about the Song of Summer here at Vulture, but what we often fail to discuss is the Song That Brings on Summer. The official word on abortion seemed to be: literally damned if you do, mocked and shamed if you don’t. The young protagonist of “Papa Don’t Preach” plans to keep her baby, which you would think would endear her to her more conservative detractors, but nope: Religious groups lined up to accuse her of promoting teenage promiscuity.
MANICTIME IN 1986 HIT MOVIE
She was coming off the Penthouse spread and the media frenzy surrounding her “ Fuck Off” wedding to Sean Penn, and getting critically drubbed in the play Goose and Tomtom and the movie Shanghai Surprise - yet no kerfuffle was more dispiriting than the one over this song.
And thus ends today’s lesson on onomatopoeia-core.Īside from being the most famous person on the planet, Madonna could not catch a break circa 1986. This one is subtitled “The Woo Woo Song,” predating Pat Benatar’s “Ooh Ooh Song” by less than a year, Cher’s cover of “The Shoop Shoop Song” by six years, and the simultaneous chart run of Tag Team’s “Whoop! There It Is” and 95 South’s “Whoot! There It Is” by seven years. Not bad, Whitney, but everyone knows Dina Martina did the best version of this song.ģ6. Whitney Houston, “ Greatest Love of All ” Like characters in a Dan Fogelberg song, we do what we must to get by.ģ7. Mark’s Place: This track was co-written by Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. Fun fact for all the kids with the mohawks down on St. To call Gaylord’s acting in this video wooden is a bigger insult to wood than the trim on the side of your mom’s station wagon. The first solo single from the least popular Taylor in Duran Duran comes from the soundtrack of the timeless Mitch Gaylord–Janet Jones love-among-the-pommel-horses gymnastics flick American Anthem. “No Palmer Girls in the video? No dice.” -the American public, July 1986. Anyway, flukey and/or youth-skewing hits from Pharrell, Eminem, and Justin Timberlake aside, the oldest person in the most recent Top 40 in 2014 is Hayley Williams of Paramore. I would sigh to myself knowingly as I listened to it: “Man, isn’t that life?” I was 9. My first 45 was Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne,” a bittersweet story-song about two former lovers who bump into one another in a supermarket frozen foods section and get honest about their lives’ compromises and disappointments over a six-pack, then ruefully say another, more final good-bye as the snow turns into rain. Nope, we had to buy records made by guys who took statins. There was no Radio Disney to market to us in our infancy, no Nickelodeon stars waiting in an incubator to become pop stars, no Kidz Bop to translate American lyrics into child. That’s who we supported, us record-buying teenagers of the ’80s, because we had no other choice. There are so, so many middle-aged white guys on this chart. Hey, anybody know what happened to those three guys? And sure, I could get into my DeLorean GIF and fly back to that week in pop-music history, but I’ve already done hard time in 2004 for an earlier installment of my Somewhere in Time column, and I just don’t have a second thing to say about Usher’s “Yeah!” Instead, let’s head back to July 2, 1986, and check out what Billboard’s Top 40 songs were the week a couple of scrappy young dreamers named Dina and Michael Lohan welcomed a daughter named Lindsay into the world. Mean Girls was released ten years ago today, which is a thing that should make us all feel very, very old.
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