8. Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvoGYXtV5GA You're soft, succulent, so sweet and thin That's kind of like a vision upon your skin It lightens up my day and that's oh so true Together we're one separated, we're two Just what exactly does that first line mean? The use of the word 'succulent' makes it sound like Milli Vanilli want to cannibalise the poor woman. If any guy sang those lyrics to me, I would look at him with consternation and then run for my life. It is a p*ss poor song at any rate. I think it won Grammys in 1989 which is a severe indictment of the taste of the people who decide what Grammys to assign to whom. Whenever the whole Milli-Vanilli-are-fake scandal broke, the Grammys were rescinded and the album taken out of circulation. Oh how we wept! Milli Vanilli were always cheesy manufactured rubbish, and this song proves how witless they were. I pity you if you get it stuck in your head.
Clare Simpson
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
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