I picked the theme for this month: 80’s songs that make you cringe. And Blobby‘s correct: I did select the theme and emailed it to him while inebriated gambrinous on the streets of New Orleans. It’s what popped into my head first, so I ran with it. Unlike other things I’d like to have been popping in my head while in NOLA.
And Blobby seems to be picking songs I like. Hmm…
I don’t know what it is exactly about this song that makes me cringe, but it does. Maybe it’s the synth. There’s a lot of songs with synth that don’t bother me through. Maybe it’s the weird echo singing. There’s a lot of songs with that too that don’t bother me. Maybe it’s just me, judging by the comments on my last few of these…
I give you Animotion’s 1985 song “Obsession”:
And did everyone in the 80s dance like that?
Until next time...
It’s not the song nor the synth that causes cringes. It’s the freakin’ shoulder pads in his coat.
But it was the 80s… didn’t every coat have shoulder pads?
It was women who (I thought) only had shoulder pads. I remember buying my mother sweaters from The Limited which had them. But it was “in”. Are they even around anymore?
I used to buy those sweaters at the Limited, cut the shoulder pads out, and stuff my bra with them.
That made me LOL.
I wasn’t a MTV or VH-1 video watcher back then. So hearing the song and watching the video is a double “hoot and holler”. 🙂
A lot of these videos I’ve never seen either.
I’ll give you this one. Cringe, but not loathe. It wasn’t good/bad enough to loathe.
You are correct. This is the most annoying song of the 80’s.
It’s pretty close to it.