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I tried listening to a Billie Eilish song to find out who she was. Now, youtube bombards me with ads to stop vaping.

SPOKE TOO SOON

1989 #10:

Spoke SPOKE TOO SOON too soon. Awesome!

1989 #11:

I knew there was a reason I had forgotten Richard Marx.

Richard Marx is the Sugar Ray of his era.

1989 #12:

Stan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:58 pm I tried listening to a Billie Eilish song to find out who she was. Now, youtube bombards me with ads to stop vaping.

1989 #13:

Her best song, maybe?

1989 #14:

Next!

1989 #15:

Nope. Not picking up for me.

1989 #16:

That's weird. I remembered each piece of that song only as it was being sung to me. I could not anticipate anything coming, but once it was there, I was like, "Oh yeah... this."

1989 #17:

I just added this song to my current playlist about a month ago. Still love it.

1989 #18:

Amazing how much is in out brains that Girl I'm Gonna Miss You is there but not there. Like looking at an old yearbook and seeing someone unfamiliar at first.

Last two songs were old friends.

poorpete wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:13 am Last two songs were old friends.

So much.

1989 #19:

Good morning!

Hey... you.

1989 #20:

It's Coming Up, like my hair line! BTW this is great and Phil Collins is underrated.

On Our Own had an outsized importance when I was eight, as was the theme to the second film I remember being excited to see (the first was Back to the Future 2, released a month earlier). Still very good and very silly.

1989 #21:

Their backlash was an overreaction, the fake band made good music, and their ruse should have been laughed off and not destroyed lives. Look, they're acting in the video. Those aren't their real girlfriends or exes. That's not rain falling in the studio. They if anything perfected the performative nature of music videos. It's all fake and it's all good. Good music, good actors.

1989 #22:

poorpete wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:18 am Their backlash was an overreaction, the fake band made good music, and their ruse should have been laughed off and not destroyed lives. Look, they're acting in the video. Those aren't their real girlfriends or exes. That's not rain falling in the studio. They if anything perfected the performative nature of music videos. It's all fake and it's all good. Good music, good actors.

Could have happened if they had revealed the ruse themselves on their own terms. But then they won a Grammy--which they deserved--and the integrity of the Grammys themselves was in question. *Dunh dunh DUHN* The overreaction makes perfect sense.

But I agree, Milli Vanilli was a hit making apparatus that involved songwriters, singers, musicians, and actors. The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke. But then, I also don't think the whole thing would have worked if everyone knew the gimmick up front either. It would have seemed dumb to an 80's audience, IMO.

1989 #23:

I would have sworn that this song was released in 1988. I distinctly remember it being played at my senior prom in 88. But Wikipedia also says 89. So to prove to myself that I'm not crazy, I started singing the lyrics to myself. When I finally got to the chorus, I realized I was thinking of Never Say Goodbye.

1989 #24:

Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke.

Why didn't you tell me this BEFORE we recorded over 100 episodes of the Animalcast?

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:48 am

Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke.

Why didn't you tell me this BEFORE we recorded over 100 episodes of the Animalcast?

Simply Red's version won the R&B Song of the Year Grammy, and the last time a white artist won that award. Then again, it's rewarded to the songwriters, so Gamble and Huff technically won it for a song they wrote 15 years prior.

1989 #25:

During this period of life, completely cut off from normal radio tunes and listening only to mixtapes, thank you many friends, thank you, I was clearly spared some misery in the early 90s.

1989 #26:

Is this the beginning of the modern boy band era?

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:48 am

Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:52 am The problem was that people don't like being deceived when they aren't in on the joke.

Why didn't you tell me this BEFORE we recorded over 100 episodes of the Animalcast?

I haven't laughed this hard in a week! Thank you.

1989 #27:

The worst.

1989 #28 (another one!):

A Madonna all timer snuck in up there

Current Top 4

Like a Prayer
Miss You Much
Giving You The Best I Got
She Drives Me Crazy

1989 #29:

morning

Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:16 pmThe worst.

Wow. No kidding. This came out when I lived in Japan, so this is the first time I’ve heard it. So bad.

Good morning!

Good morning to you, gentle friend!