May 16, 2005
FLASH IN THE PAN BABES OF THE EIGHTIES-MALL RAT DIVISION
Tonight's stroll down memory lane brings us to perhaps the most forgettable of eighties babes, Tiffany. Best attributes: easy on the eyes, red hair, passable voice. Her biggest hit was "I Think We're Alone Now", a shameless ripoff of an earlier cut by a better artist whose name escapes me. (I could ask Mrs. LMC, the Final Authority on All Matters of Popular Culture here at Fort LMC, but she will remind me of the ever-lengthening "honey-do" list.) Tiffany cut her first record in the mid-eighties but the record company sat on it for months and she wound up performing in shopping malls where she generated enough buzz for her five minutes of fame. Her meteoric rise to No. 1 on the charts was followed by an equally swift crash, complete with an emancipation battle against her mother, way-too early marriage, reproduction, divorce, and the obligatory restraining orders. Last seen working a cell phone stand at the mall where she belongs.
Posted by LMC at May 16, 2005 09:27 PMThe name of the 'earlier artist' I believe you were looking for is 'Tommy James and the Shondells' (of course, she also redid the Fab Four's 'I Saw Her Standing There' -- now *there's* some moxie fer yah...)
You didn't mention it, but you *do* know Tiffany did a Playboy spread a couple of years back (as, natch, promotion for a 'comeback' album that, you know, *didn't*)?...
Posted by: LDH at May 17, 2005 01:07 AM
Kind of a low-end Debbie Gibson. I liked her, though.
Colossus-I came across the Playboy reference after I put up the post--I did not know it was in connection with a comeback attempt which makes it unique since features in skin mags are usually confined to starlets when it comes to acts of desperation to revive a sagging career. Tiffany's minor role in The Jetsons does not qualify her as such.
Posted by: LMC at May 17, 2005 11:03 AM
Actually, that was LDH's observation, but I'll be sure to follow up with a google of it when I'm on non-company bandwidth.
While you're at it, Colossus, you can also check on the more recent Debbie Gibson pictorial in Playboy (guess you can tell what kinds of issues *I* collect, eh?...)
Posted by: LDH at May 17, 2005 03:08 PMLDH, Colossus--sorry for the mixup. Debbie Gibson is going to be the subject of tonight's post when I get back to Fort LMC. Post-composing at work is too dangerous which is why I am glad I work for a large public interest law firm in the Cayman Islands.
Posted by: LMC at May 17, 2005 03:57 PM
