Host commentary - The last track of the pre-LAP 80s. And another flawless album track done wrong. She has more innovative and personal album closers, but this one is my favorite. It is just a perfect mixture of emotion in a dancey track.
Guest commentary Subomie - What a lovely way to close the album, it's better than all but one of the singles from this album too.
HonourableVomit -Ugh, I know it gets lost in the LAV hate train but this really is superb 80s synth pop. It's got the bright Virgin vocals that made her so easily recognisable but the melancholic undertones make it pretty much the first ballad as a songwriter (not counting the LDLHA cover obviously) that she had released. It gets slept on, but Stay is a perfect album track.
Reinvention - redeemable qualities I guess
eli’s_rhythm- so good, divine, pure
LoveLiveMusic - Stay gets a 10 from me because there’s something so captivating in it. The lyrics are nothing too impressive, but the booming of words like ‘You’ and ‘Stay’ are much louder than the drums.
Album average: 6.027
Rank amongst albums: 12th of 15
Host commentary: I think of it more as a concept album about an 80s prom and that makes it more enjoyable because it transports you back to a different time period. This is probably truly her most underrated album.
LoveLiveMusic's guest album commentary: Like A Virgin is one of my fave albums, she really engrained herself in people’s memories by becoming the visual artist she is. The VMA’s look and this album bring people back to a certain time. Many females in the 80’s could probably wanting to recreate her looks.
good on you brah
