I forgot that I’d wanted to post this for fun—someone mentioned this song on the actual Bette Davis poll, and it’s an incredible artifact of the ‘80s. Also, kind of a genuine bop.
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This year marks the debut of something that will come to define this decade as we know it: MTV. The channel launched on August 1st with The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star as its first video. However, the videos haven't successfully killed the radio yet, so we won't see the channel's effect on the charts right away.
This was a good year for soft rock, as well as country crossovers with Kenny Rogers, Eddie Rabbitt, and Dolly Parton. Rogers and Parton were already well-established superstars in Nashville, but the early eighties marks the point when their presence reached mainstream audiences as well. I was going to use Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 as a springboard to talk about Reaganomics, but I scrapped that because it bummed me out.
This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you another set of tune to remind you of the 1980s: Midnight Oil, The Birthday Party, Patty Smyth, Nick Heyward, Kim Carnes, Visage, Kenny Loggins, Real Life, Planet P Project, Midge Ure, Fischer-Z, The Go-Go’s, Duran Duran, and ending off with Devo.
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Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Bette Davis eyes
And she'll tease you, she'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious, and she knows just what it
Takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs,
she's got Bette Davis eyes..