Woman In 1985 Video Advised to “Shut Up, Now”, Is Informed that ‘Voices Carry.”

Back thirty years we go. Just typing that seems odd, living as we do in the far flung future times of 2015. Check out the background of the song that lit the flame under many an eighties lady, as she too stood up and defiantly threw back in her boyfriend's stupid face that voices did indeed carry. 

Man, yeah, music videos used to really BE something, young people. They so intertwined the songs with striking images that they set up room in your brain and stayed there for the rest of your life. And this was one of the best. That big poofy hair style with the rat tail in the back. That jerk face anus in the wife beater yelling his stupid face at our hero lady singer. The nagging question as to whether that one dude in the band was a dude or a girt or what already?

The song hit number eight in 1985 for this Boston band, and was their only big smash, though lead singer Aimee Mann did go on to a celebrated singer/songwriter career, as well as the occasional acting gig (that was her severed toe passing as Bunny Lebowski's digit in The Big Lebowski). Even more interestingly, the song was originally sung by a woman to a woman, but due to record company idiocy and the need for less controversial lyrics, it was changed to be sung to a man. The band also won the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. Get ready to relive it's triumphant ending, as it is your-

-K-101.7 Song Of The day!

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