this song has been going through my mind all evening, and either you'll be fine with it or you'll hate it
it's very of its time (and i'll be honest with you all: there've always been some epic trans vibes on this entire album, and well, i still have some… questions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtxG-YHWSS8
[p.s., yeah she wore cornrows in 1989. and i'm sorry-not sorry, but she was a possibility model for 16yo severely cracked-egg me]
fun fact:
this début, her first album, was entirely recorded, performed, produced, and engineered by herself on Warners — something which almost never happens on débuts except with the most talented. previous to her, Warner Brothers let Prince do that and pretty much no one else
also fun fact:
i have a promotional-only poster in mint condition from this album which isn't the same picture as either album sleeve cover (a different photo was used for the vinyl), and i have meant for years to frame it, but maybe now i won't for legitimate reasons, idk
it's… complicated
final fun fact:
jane child is from toronto, so to me she is a hometown girl (and which leaves me unable to shake my feelings covered in that first jinx, given The Clarke's five-decade presence here), but if you were to ask her, a transplanted los angelina, about toronto, she is known to rapidly change the subject to something else :/
most of you looking at this thread and scratching your head would best know who she is/was by that one-hit wonder from 1989–90 called “Don’t Wanna Fall in Love”
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the song would also pass a pop music equivalent of a bechdel test, insomuch as a woman singing lead on her own song, on a major label in 1989, was not singing about relationships with or courting some dude