Cyndi should have 6 songs in: Girls Just Wanna, Time After Time, True Colors, She Bop, All Through The Night, I Drove All Night. The first 5 songs are obligatory, the last one can be interchangeable with either Money Changes Everything or The Goodies Are Good Enough. My body is ready!
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Yes, Tracy! I was not expecting to see her here. "Fast Car" for the win. One of the greatest songs ever written.
No "Give Me One Reason," though? It's her biggest chart hit.
Isn't it from the 90s? Anyway, I always thought that the three songs that are in were bigger than it
Yes, Tracy! I was not expecting to see her here. "Fast Car" for the win. One of the greatest songs ever written.
No "Give Me One Reason," though? It's her biggest chart hit.
It was also released in 1996. If I had to cut down one girl her choices from six to two because four of them were done in the 90s, Tracy has to suffer the same!
But enough about that sister of Sappho. Let's talk about the original (and superior) version of Kelly Clarkson, one Pat Benatar.
Mezzo-soprano. Four octave range. Last name at birth was Andrezjewski! Born in GREENPOINT!
Cut off from the local rock scene as a teen, Pat instead chose to try out for JUILLIARD. She trained as a coloratura (imagine what we would have missed), but decided to avoid the opera scene and go to a SUNY. After graduating and working as a bank teller, young Patricia #nottheonlypatriciainthisrate #hinthint saw LIZA with a Z in concert and decided to become a professional singer. The rest is history.
Pat her singles are so epic it was hard to narrow them down to four. Hopefully you'll agree with me!
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Honestly one of the most iconic music videos of all time.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Love is a Battlefield
We Belong
All Fired Up
Poor Kelly Clarkson, having to be compared with such epicness!
She has at least a couple of songs, released in the 80s, that are better and more known than All Fired Up i.e. Shadows of the Night and Invincible. All I can think about now is "all fired up, I feel alive". DAMN, MONDAYS!
Poor Kelly Clarkson, having to be compared with such epicness!
She has at least a couple of songs, released in the 80s, that are better and more known than All Fired Up i.e. Shadows of the Night and Invincible. All I can think about now is "all fired up, I feel alive". DAMN, MONDAYS!
I'm listening to Shadows of the Night rn! It's just stylistically VERY similar to We Belong, isn't it?
It was SO HARD to cut Patty B down to four. So hard.
I'm listening to Shadows of the Night rn! It's just stylistically VERY similar to We Belong, isn't it?
It was SO HARD to cut Patty B down to four. So hard.
They're both the epitome of the Pop of the middle 80s but I feel like SON is cleaner and less complex than the bigger hit that followed it. In your words, it was the proto-We Belong. I like it more, to be honest.
Yeah, it's such a pain seeing some of her other great pieces go wasted.
Record labels go CRAZY trying to emulate them - non-singers with femme positive messages, great style, authentic writing credits and BOPS.
It just so happened that Shalamar, a classic mixed-gendered band, had split up. Second lead vocalist (hyhyKelly hyhySL) Jody Watley was a free agent. After the SPLIT OF SHALAMAR, Jody moved to England. Upon returning to the States, Jody signed to RCA at the ripe age of 26. (Imagine that happening today. You can't, which is a real tragedy. Now artists are signed in utero. Shame!). The fruits of their labor? Looking for a New Love, which the BLACKS LOVED. It topped the R&B charts for weeks. Didn't matter that it was the Born This Way to Janet's Express Yourself (What Have You Don't For Me Lately?). A crazy beat, fantastic video, and striking performer where all that were needed to make it a HIT.
Second single Still a Thrill, which is dynamite, was "too urban" for the pop charts. Luckily Jody had Don't You Want Me hiding up her sleeve.
If LfaNL was Jody at her sassiest, and SaT was Jody at her most carnal, than DYWM showed a sensitive side.