Dumb quiz?

[darcydodo]

OK, this really says something about just how crap 80s songwriters were. Because I've never heard a single one of these songs, and:

Wow, you got them all right. I think it's about
time you started listening to new music.

So you think you know lyrics to 80's songs?
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But then, on reflection, I went back and changed an answer, and was still told that I got them all right. So clearly the quiz is just a bit fucked.

Comments

[darcydodo]

Kylie? Jason?

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

I refuse to believe you don't know who Kylie is!

Jason I'll let you off on. They both started life as characters on "Neighbours", the prime-time Australian soap opera, and they both signed to PWL to record songs written by Pete Waterman (shudder), and they both lived in the UK Top 10 for a year as a result. They recorded a duet ("Especially for You"), went out but denied it to the media until afterwards, and then Kylie dated rock bad-boy Michael Hutchence of INXS and the rest is history. Jason went on to star in musicals in the West End, as Joseph and as Frankenfurter, not unsuccessfully.

When some people think of "80s", they think of Human League, OMD and synth-pop. Some people think of "alternative 80s", Teardrop Explodes, New Order, Pysychadelic Furs and A Cerain Ratio. But unfortunately for these isles, a lot of people will think of Kylie, Jason, and Belinda Carlisle. Ugh.

[darcydodo]

The only Kylie I can think of is Kylie Minogue, and I'm still not actually quite positive who exactly she is. And I've managed to escape seeing Neighbours except for once, when I was staying at a friend's house and her sister watched it.

And then there's also the fact that I'm not British and hence have an entirely different conception of the 80s...

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

Fully realise non-Britishness is likely to give you a different slant, but Kylie (Minogue, indeed, but usually simply "Kylie") is now officially the second-biggest female artsit in the world after Madonna, naurally, and I'm sure you'd be flabbergasted if I didn't know who Madonna was!)

[darcydodo]

True. :)