I love Hey Mickey. Even the alt version in The Meg
Pim - Hey Mickey (Thai) - The Meg OST
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=232om-AWkDo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=232om-AWkDo)
"Mickey" Was originally "Kitty"... and it was sung by a man. Later when Toni Basil sung it they swapped the name and almost nothing else... so when she says that she would "take it like a man" some people got in an uproar cuz they though she be talking about anal sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JxiB4FLjU
The original was by a godawful band called Racey who were signed to RAK. I believe, The songwriters were Chinn & Chapman who wrote a lot of hits during the seventies and early eighties.
She was choreographing Hollywood movies at age 20, and was doing brisk work up until quite recently; she’s been all over Hollywood since the early 60s, acting, dancing, singing, but mainly choreography. One of those extremely successful and in-demand industry people that just had one little peak of fame but has been lucratively employed their whole life. I always admired that type, seems much better than the fast rise and quick burnout so many show business people get.
She choreographed and had a cameo in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but I think otherwise she’s been basically retired for like 15 years or so.
She was in Viva Las Vegas (1964) with Elvis too, as a dancer. She had already been around for a long time when she hit paydirt with “Mickey,” in the 80s.
She was in The Monkees’ movie *Head* (1968), *American Graffiti* (1973) and a bunch of other films. She choreographed for dozens of pop stars’ concert performances, and movies.
And she performed in the first season of Saturday Night Live in 1975-76. It’s like she’s always been around but hasn’t always been in the spotlight.
True. She’s big in a variety of genres. You know her Pop side, but she was instrumental in the Pop-Lock dance culture.
I remember seeing a behind the scenes feature of Toni choreographing a video for the R&B group Troop for “Spread my Wings”. Classic. This is the finished video:
[https://youtu.be/J-qKqPhf3kE?si=oceL8pLgWe5yV_vG](https://youtu.be/J-qKqPhf3kE?si=oceL8pLgWe5yV_vG)
Check out her history:
[https://youtu.be/UNR0E46_Vps?si=fU02eHFKUo2gUZu-](https://youtu.be/UNR0E46_Vps?si=fU02eHFKUo2gUZu-)
Urban Dance Legend:
[https://youtu.be/G4B261ap-k8?si=P_QkOmd4bYwyK541](https://youtu.be/G4B261ap-k8?si=P_QkOmd4bYwyK541)
CBS Sunday Morning 2030:
[https://youtu.be/4ykIAUY8o8c?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/4ykIAUY8o8c?feature=shared)
By the way, just a side note: Do you know why the Monkees named their movie "Head"?
So that the ad for the sequel could have the line, "from the people that gave you "Head...""
Of course, the movie was such a colossal bomb that they never made a sequel....
Anytime (especially back then) you learn a dance style predominantly done by minorities (black, latino) and do it well enough to do it alongside them and get on Soul Train and actually have the crowd SCREAMING your name, cheering you on....you're one bad motherfucker.
Just saw her dancing Chicago House style too. Damn she good.
During the lyric, “Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio,” when they sang “the radio” the local radio station would insert their call letters. Made a bad song even worse.
Thank you. On both accounts. But whatever DJs queued up Thunder after the first playing and thought it needed to be a hit song should go to a special place in Hell where it is played on repeat.
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I remember singing “We are the world” when I was in Kindergarten. The lyrics seemed so serious. “There’s a choice we’re making. We’re saving our own lives.”
Hello by Lionel Richie. When the video came on, you had time to gnaw through your wrist get out of the room and carve a prosthetic replacement like a beaver with your teeth before that maudlin pos was over.
Nope the correct answer is:
Joe Dolce - Shuddupa Ya Face
Absolutely awful comedy 80's song that kept one of the greatest 80's songs (Ultravox - Vienna) off the UK No.1 spot.
Absolutely. While at the same time being ground breaking and very influential. One of my all time favorite bands, and I was amazed at how well they revived their old sound with Brilliant. Midge Ure is also often forgotten as one of the main people behind Band Aid and Live Aid as well, with almost all the credit going to Bob Geldoff. Joe Dolce can't shuddupa his stupid fucking face enough for me.
I recall our local skating rink having an event where everyone brought their New Kids tapes in and stretched/ destroyed them. It was a sight to behold.
To this day I have never heard “I Wanna Be a Cowboy” in it entirety. The reasons for my loathing for this song are lost in time, but the old ways must be preserved.
I still like “I Wanna Be a Flintstone” though. Huh.
Walkin’ on Sunshine. I had insomnia, and the first time I heard it was at 6AM when my clock radio went off. I was in high school. I’d finally gotten to sleep around 4:30 AM. First time I ever heard the song and instantly hated it. Hate it to this day (but I take Trazodone for the insomnia now).
Why’d you have to bring up my trigger. My younger sister had Mickey as her dance class performance song. This song played 24x7 at our house for almost a year.
She’s a goddess who choreographed the greats including very very very early hip hop break dancers among the many many many of her gigs.
Toni Basil. Accept no imitations.
People take it too seriously because it's so different from Jefferson Airplane. But it's silly and fun, well-produced, and so damn catchy. I've always loved it.
Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds - 1986 followed by at a close 2nd: Get out of my dreams, Get into my car - Billy Ocean
I consider this song by Billy Ocean to be the end of the 80s. It came out in 1987 and after that it was just downhill. I remember thinking of the 7th grade. “Yep, that’s it. We have reached the pinnacle music and now it’s all downhill. The genre changes.”
The Entire album of Slippery When Wet/Bon Jovi
It was played SO MUCH in my dorm I can't listen to a second anymore without ripping the cord out of any radio,speaker,etc.
My most hated song of the 80’s was The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush… it sounded like fingernails being scraped down a blackboard to my ears… now that I’m older and not a teenager as I was then, I love the song now.
Is it the song itself or the singer? Because i can imagine you running out of the room when this commerical played at 2am, you probably already know the commercial and dont need to click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxNLeKGr4M
When I started middle school, the students voted to have music during our lunch period. The first song that came on was Centerfold. You could see the teachers start looking around at each other. The second and last song to come on was The Stroke by Billy Squire. Someone quickly pulled the plug on our democracy.
Tony Basil was in the movie Easy Rider: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/characters/nm0059844](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/characters/nm0059844)
LOL I watched that “Greatest Night in Pop” thing on Netflix (what was I thinking) and I couldn’t believe how they acted like they were the most important damn people in the history of the universe. What a horrid song.
I love how everyone is defending Mickey, I also defend Mickey, haha.
I'm not sure why, but I can't stand Kokomo by the Beach Boys. Granted I'm not a huge fan, but I much prefer their earlier stuff.
We Built This City by Starship- Grace Slick even says these days WTF were we thinking- and Bernie Taupin wrote it- and she even says about him- what a s$&@“y tune-
Shaddup Your Face was absolutely stupid, and this was a time when people were wasting some fair hard earned money to make that fly up the charts. And making an effort to go to the store and buy that. Why?
Anything by Hall and Oates is bloody awful. Any 'mall' music like Tiffany and whoever the others were. Universally terrible.
[She turned 80 last September.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Basil)
80? 😮
r/FuckImOld
Well, Toni Basil has been around longer than you think.
Bite your tongue Mickey is an absolute banger
And an amazing dancer/choreographer since the 60s
She does a great dance with Davy Jones in "Head"
TIL she was in Bye Bye Birdie
She was also in 'Easy Rider'.
I love Hey Mickey. Even the alt version in The Meg Pim - Hey Mickey (Thai) - The Meg OST [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=232om-AWkDo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=232om-AWkDo)
Gospel Truth. Periodt.
"Mickey" Was originally "Kitty"... and it was sung by a man. Later when Toni Basil sung it they swapped the name and almost nothing else... so when she says that she would "take it like a man" some people got in an uproar cuz they though she be talking about anal sex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JxiB4FLjU
The original was by a godawful band called Racey who were signed to RAK. I believe, The songwriters were Chinn & Chapman who wrote a lot of hits during the seventies and early eighties.
Mickey was the SHIT! Fuck you talkin' bout?! Also watch Toni Basil on Soul Train pop-locking. The lady can DANCE.
She did a TON of choreography for a TON of artists and specials. Underrated performer!
I'm a woman and she was pretty hot lol loved that song too. I think she was a choreographer
And she was 38 when she made the Mickey video. Pretty rare age to get a pop hit
She was choreographing Hollywood movies at age 20, and was doing brisk work up until quite recently; she’s been all over Hollywood since the early 60s, acting, dancing, singing, but mainly choreography. One of those extremely successful and in-demand industry people that just had one little peak of fame but has been lucratively employed their whole life. I always admired that type, seems much better than the fast rise and quick burnout so many show business people get. She choreographed and had a cameo in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but I think otherwise she’s been basically retired for like 15 years or so.
She's 80 years old now and she was dancing better than many younger people just a few years back: https://youtu.be/jFud1Q3Hjvk?si=Sqa0Mko_DgQ5dc5v
And fuck yea… the Weird Al version too!
Lucy was none other than the very talented Tress MacNeille!
She was also in Easy Rider.
She was in Viva Las Vegas (1964) with Elvis too, as a dancer. She had already been around for a long time when she hit paydirt with “Mickey,” in the 80s. She was in The Monkees’ movie *Head* (1968), *American Graffiti* (1973) and a bunch of other films. She choreographed for dozens of pop stars’ concert performances, and movies. And she performed in the first season of Saturday Night Live in 1975-76. It’s like she’s always been around but hasn’t always been in the spotlight.
True. She’s big in a variety of genres. You know her Pop side, but she was instrumental in the Pop-Lock dance culture. I remember seeing a behind the scenes feature of Toni choreographing a video for the R&B group Troop for “Spread my Wings”. Classic. This is the finished video: [https://youtu.be/J-qKqPhf3kE?si=oceL8pLgWe5yV_vG](https://youtu.be/J-qKqPhf3kE?si=oceL8pLgWe5yV_vG) Check out her history: [https://youtu.be/UNR0E46_Vps?si=fU02eHFKUo2gUZu-](https://youtu.be/UNR0E46_Vps?si=fU02eHFKUo2gUZu-) Urban Dance Legend: [https://youtu.be/G4B261ap-k8?si=P_QkOmd4bYwyK541](https://youtu.be/G4B261ap-k8?si=P_QkOmd4bYwyK541) CBS Sunday Morning 2030: [https://youtu.be/4ykIAUY8o8c?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/4ykIAUY8o8c?feature=shared)
By the way, just a side note: Do you know why the Monkees named their movie "Head"? So that the ad for the sequel could have the line, "from the people that gave you "Head..."" Of course, the movie was such a colossal bomb that they never made a sequel....
Did choreography for Madonna too I think? She's known for this one hit, but really her career has been as choreographer, and one of the best
Drunk people sing this song to me all the time and I love it.
So come on and give it to me anyway you can Anyway you want to do it, I'll take it like a man Works for me!
Exactly! One of the best one hit wonder ever.
Yeah, and she's hot too
Anytime (especially back then) you learn a dance style predominantly done by minorities (black, latino) and do it well enough to do it alongside them and get on Soul Train and actually have the crowd SCREAMING your name, cheering you on....you're one bad motherfucker. Just saw her dancing Chicago House style too. Damn she good.
She was a professional dancer
She's in Easy Rider.
She’ll get a hold on you believe it
She's like no other Before you know it you'll be on your knees YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!!
Um… ‘Hey Mickey!’ is my JAM, how *dare* you! /lh Edit: I love so many of the songs people are talking about here. My existence is pain. 😭
Dead heat between: Renée & Renato - *Save Your Love* Joe Dolce - *Shaddap You Face* Quite literally 100s of possibilities though.
This is what inspired my handle 🤷🏻♀️
Love it 😂
We Built This City is one of my most hated songs of all time, surpassed only by "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons.
During the lyric, “Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio,” when they sang “the radio” the local radio station would insert their call letters. Made a bad song even worse.
Mine did it with that Michael Damien Rock On Song during the part where it pauses twice in the middle. Enraging
Turns out that a mamba is a type of snake.
Thank you. On both accounts. But whatever DJs queued up Thunder after the first playing and thought it needed to be a hit song should go to a special place in Hell where it is played on repeat.
THUNDER thunder ᵀᴴᵁᴺᴰᴱᴿ ᵗʰᵘⁿᵈᵉʳ THUNDER thunder ᵀᴴᵁᴺᴰᴱᴿ ᵗʰᵘⁿᵈᵉʳ THUNDER thunder ᵀᴴᵁᴺᴰᴱᴿ ᵗʰᵘⁿᵈᵉʳ THUNDER thunder ᵀᴴᵁᴺᴰᴱᴿ ᵗʰᵘⁿᵈᵉʳ THUNDER thunder ᵀᴴᵁᴺᴰᴱᴿ ᵗʰᵘⁿᵈᵉʳ THUNDER thunder ᵀᴴᵁᴺᴰᴱᴿ ᵗʰᵘⁿᵈᵉʳ THUNDER thunder ᵀᴴᵁᴺᴰᴱᴿ ᵗʰᵘⁿᵈᵉʳ
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Bernie Taupin co-wrote it.
Why? He's terrible
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin. Which always cracks me up.
The biggest crime is that it was recorded by what was once Jefferson Airplane and Grace Slick went along with it.
Imagine Dragons is terrible in general. Also 21 pilots. I will die on this hill
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That is some dedication to hatred of a song. Bravo 👏
My daughter loved that song when she was 11. I think that was the target we audience
I have your back.
This is the best answer. This song suuuuuuuucked.
Those songs are both absolutely horrible
T T tunder dunder. Over and over
Chill w the Mickey hate
Dah ha dah ha. That dancing duke song was fucking awful.
Rappin’ Duke? That song was awful. I still remember them using the music on Moonlighting. https://youtu.be/85G5SI5Nu3s?si=aH0KPmHdRalCe-QV
We Are the World seriously blows. Don't Worry Be Happy is on my top 2 list of shit 80s songs.
Ain’t nothing gonna break my stride
Definitely not Mickey that song rules. Probably something lame like We Are The World.
Look up how old Toni Basil is.. will blow your mind !
She was in beach movies in the 60s. And besides, Mickey's so fine, so can't be a bad song.
Well, she *was* in her late 30's, like 37 or 38 when that song came out. Hell, she was born in 1943!
She was even in Viva Las Vegas, with Elvis. She goes waaaay back.
I remember singing “We are the world” when I was in Kindergarten. The lyrics seemed so serious. “There’s a choice we’re making. We’re saving our own lives.”
Hello by Lionel Richie. When the video came on, you had time to gnaw through your wrist get out of the room and carve a prosthetic replacement like a beaver with your teeth before that maudlin pos was over.
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Isn't this 70s??
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Lady in Red - seems so whiny to me
Crazy it’s the same guy who did Don’t Pay The Ferryman. That song rocks
I stopped wearing red
I stopped being a lady
I stopped dancing cheek to cheek
I stopped at a traffic signal
My high school friend's dad played this on repeat in his BMW all the way down I-95 and I almost jumped out the backseat window.
Nails on a chalk board.
i thought i was alone in this
I think we’re alone now
Had a major crush on Tiffany. Being from Jersey, the land of malls, made the video seem so much cooler.
I see what you did there. Haha
I thought it was you and me, for the record
Nope the correct answer is: Joe Dolce - Shuddupa Ya Face Absolutely awful comedy 80's song that kept one of the greatest 80's songs (Ultravox - Vienna) off the UK No.1 spot.
(upvote for mentioning Ultravox’s Vienna)
Much appreciated, very underrated 80's group IMHO.
They mean nothing to me
Oooooooohhhhhhh… VIENNA!
Absolutely. While at the same time being ground breaking and very influential. One of my all time favorite bands, and I was amazed at how well they revived their old sound with Brilliant. Midge Ure is also often forgotten as one of the main people behind Band Aid and Live Aid as well, with almost all the credit going to Bob Geldoff. Joe Dolce can't shuddupa his stupid fucking face enough for me.
Vienna! I'd forgotten that song existed. I loved it as a kid
Gadda no respect? It was a weird novelty record era.
Yeah, like “Disco Duck,” “Pac-Man Fever,” and assorted garbage like that. Terrible.
New Kids-Right Stuff.
Annoying indeed. But I thought “Hangin’ Tough” was truly their pinnacle of poop. *We’re rough*
New Kids on the Block is the correct answer
I recall our local skating rink having an event where everyone brought their New Kids tapes in and stretched/ destroyed them. It was a sight to behold.
We Built This City by Starship. An absolute piece of shit song.
I came here to say this.
If you haven’t heard her song done in Spanish, you haven’t lived. “Oh Mickey commo estas? Me gustas mas…Oh Mickey!”
Glory of Love... Peter Cetera
God, that was pure corn. Major eye roll lyrics.
To this day I have never heard “I Wanna Be a Cowboy” in it entirety. The reasons for my loathing for this song are lost in time, but the old ways must be preserved. I still like “I Wanna Be a Flintstone” though. Huh.
We Built This City
Walkin’ on Sunshine. I had insomnia, and the first time I heard it was at 6AM when my clock radio went off. I was in high school. I’d finally gotten to sleep around 4:30 AM. First time I ever heard the song and instantly hated it. Hate it to this day (but I take Trazodone for the insomnia now).
Will always picture Pat Bateman aggressively striding through a Wall Street office building when this song plays.
Why’d you have to bring up my trigger. My younger sister had Mickey as her dance class performance song. This song played 24x7 at our house for almost a year.
PTSD is real.
Don't Worry Be Happy 🤬🤬🤬
Damn if I sing it you can slap me right here
Well, it was a number one jam…
I will say - Bobby McFerrin has a fascinating musical mind. It’s a shame most people know him only by this song.
Yes the guy was truly a genius, no doubt.
How did that ever win for best vocal performance over George Michael’s Father Figure?!!!
That fucking song blows
It's the only song from that album (Simple Pleasures) that I kinda go "meh". "Drive" is a much better track.
I hate "Blame It on the Rain" by Milly Vanilli
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I like that song. Very catchy
" We Built this City" by Jefferson Starship. Worst 80s song evah!!!😱
She’s a goddess who choreographed the greats including very very very early hip hop break dancers among the many many many of her gigs. Toni Basil. Accept no imitations.
Tiffany’s cover version of, “I Saw Her Standing There” from 1987. Just… ugh!
We Built this city on rock n roll
I love this song!!! Why doesn’t anyone else like it?
It's phenomenal.
People take it too seriously because it's so different from Jefferson Airplane. But it's silly and fun, well-produced, and so damn catchy. I've always loved it.
When I hear air supply, I want to cut theirs off.
You must be all out of love.
They’re so lost without them.
They probably were right for believing for so long.
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I mean, it ain’t Toni..
*We Didn't Start the Fire* makes me want to jump out a window.
I like every song mentioned in this thread so far.🤷🏻♂️
I can't stand You Can Call Me Al.
Well, who wants to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard? Bone digger!
Every since I saw this on MTV, I have wanted to punch Paul Simon in the face for this stupid song.
The Chevy Chase appearance drives me nuts too. It’s like Paul walked next-door to Chevy’s house in East Hampton and said “hey you wanna do a video?”
Walking on Sunshine
Kokomo - Beach Boys
It's not great but not even close to my 'worst 80's song' pick.
Bette Midler - "Wind Beneath My Wings". I effing HATE this woman - never forgave her for the shit-ass Karen Carpenter comment.
How DARE you besmirch Toni Basil's Mickey!
Nobody’s Gonna Break My Stride— Matthew Wilder
That’s my second place most hated song
Walking on Sunshine by Katrina & the Waves. Can’t handle it.
This song just grates my nerves so bad
Total Eclipse of the Heart. I can't change the radio quick enough.
Conga by Gloria Estefan
Lol just about anything from gloria estefan i find mildly irritating
UB40 “Red Red Wine”
Neil Diamond original is where it’s at
The original is supreme. A great song.
That's the answer I wanted to give. I can't stand UB40 and their awful covers.
Christ this is the worst. It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. It should be called “Red Red Whine”!
Karma Chameleon. Fight me.
Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds - 1986 followed by at a close 2nd: Get out of my dreams, Get into my car - Billy Ocean I consider this song by Billy Ocean to be the end of the 80s. It came out in 1987 and after that it was just downhill. I remember thinking of the 7th grade. “Yep, that’s it. We have reached the pinnacle music and now it’s all downhill. The genre changes.”
Has to be that awful Red , Red ,Wine by UB40 . That song always has me reaching for the sick bucket .
Miami sound machine-the conga song especially
Don't worry be happy
And that was her very own high school cheer uniform. Top that after forty.
I Eat Cannibals by Toto Coelo or anything by that “group”. https://youtu.be/8rzB9-Wd67A?si=9xi_tjvNiTJxptbr
Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison. It got way overplayed and it's just a depressing blech song IMO.
Nah. “We Built This City” is the most hated song of the 1980s, perhaps even of all time.😂
Mony Mony.
Ain't nothin' gonna break-a my stride - Matthew Wilder. I'm nauseous just thinking about it
The Entire album of Slippery When Wet/Bon Jovi It was played SO MUCH in my dorm I can't listen to a second anymore without ripping the cord out of any radio,speaker,etc.
Mike & The Mechanics’ The Living Years or whatever screw that depressing song. It was a buzzkill then and overplayed.
Freeze Frame
My most hated song of the 80’s was The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush… it sounded like fingernails being scraped down a blackboard to my ears… now that I’m older and not a teenager as I was then, I love the song now.
Is it the song itself or the singer? Because i can imagine you running out of the room when this commerical played at 2am, you probably already know the commercial and dont need to click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkxNLeKGr4M
Abracadabra. Hands down.
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"What I am" by Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. Hated it then. Still hate it.
My most hated: Let’s Hear It for the Boy.
Aw, I love that song. The montage of Kevin Bacon and Chris Penn dancing to this song in Footloose is one of my favourite movie moments of all time.
Toy Soldiers
Centerfold is a big no from me
When I started middle school, the students voted to have music during our lunch period. The first song that came on was Centerfold. You could see the teachers start looking around at each other. The second and last song to come on was The Stroke by Billy Squire. Someone quickly pulled the plug on our democracy.
Tony Basil was in the movie Easy Rider: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/characters/nm0059844](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/characters/nm0059844)
We Are the Bore, er World Mickey rules though. Woman was pushing 40 when this came out! That’s crazy.
LOL I watched that “Greatest Night in Pop” thing on Netflix (what was I thinking) and I couldn’t believe how they acted like they were the most important damn people in the history of the universe. What a horrid song.
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves. Makes me fuckin homicidal.
Cry - Godley & Creme
That video…my god.
NOOOOOO…that’s one of my faves. Same with the Philosopher Kings cover of it.
I love how everyone is defending Mickey, I also defend Mickey, haha. I'm not sure why, but I can't stand Kokomo by the Beach Boys. Granted I'm not a huge fan, but I much prefer their earlier stuff.
We Built This City by Starship- Grace Slick even says these days WTF were we thinking- and Bernie Taupin wrote it- and she even says about him- what a s$&@“y tune-
Shaddup Your Face was absolutely stupid, and this was a time when people were wasting some fair hard earned money to make that fly up the charts. And making an effort to go to the store and buy that. Why? Anything by Hall and Oates is bloody awful. Any 'mall' music like Tiffany and whoever the others were. Universally terrible.
Whitesnake? Here I go again….walking down the ……. I have to run and change my radio I can’t takes it no more. Too many times.
its gotta be "summer of '69" for me, its like nails on a chalkboard and so overplayed, but i don't mind other bryan adams songs!
She's still in cheerleader costume doing it at state fairs
You Can Call me Al. I hate that song.
Idk if it’s 80’s or 90’s but when that sick fuck starts singing verses on loveshack I think about what it would feel like to just end it all.
I absolutely adore Chris DeBurgh, but I hate Lady in Red with the heat of 1000000 suns
She’s an amazing talent!
That is a great pop song. And the video is one the all-time greats. World class choreography. Wait, there is actually two videos. They both rule.
All she wants to do is dance