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The Metro #816

This week on The Metro, Rev. Jeff Ivins brings you the following artists for your weekly time warp to the 1980s: Stray Cats, Icehouse, Jane’s Addiction, The B-52’s, Nu Shooz, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Robert Hazard, Klark Kent, U2, Dave Edmunds, English Beat, Single Bullet Theory, Rick Astley, Uncanny X-Men, Violent Femmes, and finally with Wide Boy Awake. Stream The Metro #816. Download The Metro…

The Metro #816

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CHROMATICS "GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE SOME" (Official Video)

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Robert Hazard

The original version of this song hits different from a guys point of view.

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ROBERT HAZARD - “ESCALATOR OF LIFE”

Not precisely my usual kind of thing--a bit “rock and roll” for my tastes. But I’ve always found this track very interesting. Robert Hazard’s most famous tune is probably “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” covered, of course, by Cyndi Lauper, who rewrote most of the lyrics to turn it into the iconic pop-feminist anthem it’s known as today. Hazard’s version is of course from a man’s perspective, lamenting that he can’t lock down a committed relationship because girls are only interested in “fun” with him and nothing more serious. Oh, how the turn tables.

But back to “Escalator of Life.” During the Reagan/Thatcher era, songs that ironically assumed the voice of a “yuppie” capitalist boasting about wealth and prosperity as a means of underhanded dissent towards those ideals were a dime a dozen, no pun intended. The Pet Shop Boys’ “Opportunities,” ABC’s “How to Be a Millionaire,” Holly Johnson’s “Americanos,” the list goes on. It seems easy to interpret “Escalator of Life” in the same vein, and this could easily be argued. But I wonder, given the overt silliness of some of the lyrics, if it might really be something even more meta than that. Could “Escalator of Life” actually be a parody of yuppie snark songs? I mean, “come ride a steel dinosaur, go wild in the jungle”? If it’s possible for songs like “Opportunities” to be read as straightforward endorsements of these ideals, then surely it’s possible I was initially mistaken about “Escalator of Life?”

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Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun

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For the last song of the concert we wanted to try a little something with the audience. We didn't know what to expect but I think it ended up being quite nice :) (4 of 4)