Toni Basil - Mickey

[VoR]

81 years young today!

 

[jivafox]

Now is the perfect time for a rerecording!

 

[VoR]

The Lolly (47) rendition is a pivotal record of my childhood.

 

[Penelope]

She recorded this when she was nearly FORTY?! Gwen Stefani, Ace Wilder - eat your hearts out!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I'm shocked that three very excited girls don't have a cover of this!

Anyway, terrible annoyance of a song that should have been left in the annals of history.

 

[Joseph]

10/10 all day every day

It’s not a song that I would consciously put on at this point but it’s a perfect pop song

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Actually I'm being very harsh, it's not the Toni version that I despise, there is a much whinier one that is what I have in my head that is headache inducing

 

[Shoat]

Lolly (47) did Reading Pride a couple of weeks back, and astoundingly now in 2024 finally looks like the 19 year old she was pretending to be

Terrible song in both incarnations

 

[Finn]

She recorded this when she was nearly FORTY?!

This has blown my mind. Although now I'm watching the video and it's QUITE OBVIOUS

In other news, here are three mismatched Swedish gentlemen butchering it on Allsång på Skansen this summer:

 

[VoR]

That would be because Sweden's Christ-like answer to Madonna, Carola, had a big hit with it in the 80s.

 

[ButterTart]

She recorded this when she was nearly FORTY?! Gwen Stefani, Ace Wilder - eat your hearts out!

None of us are old enough to remember a time when Ace Wilder was nearly 40.