Samantha Fox's "Naught Girls Need Love Too" - Classic Or Dud?

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Because Alex in NYC demanded it...

I suggest we all track down this potential masterpiece and discuss its lyrical *and* musical qualities.

Tim, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim Finney, y'such a wild DAME!...

"Hmmph.. but what's in a name?"

T-T-T-Ti-Ti-Ti-Tim... T-T-T-T-Ti-Ti-TIM...

"No more fun and games with THE MOIND!"

Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That was my way of saying "Classic". I know I'll be in a minority here... but I kinda like the breaks in that song. The little interplay with the backing soul dude and Samantha is so goddamn cheeseball, it's brilliant.

It just captures 1986 pop so well. Maybe.... JUST MAYBE!

Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brian, you are SO not alone. That song is Full Force's finest moment. Even now, I'm kind of bouncing up and down in my chair thinking about that song. It inhabits a special place in my heart along with "Let's Go All The Way", "Tarzan Boy", "I Wanna Be A Cowboy", "Curiosity", "Right On Track", and "Heart And Soul".

Dan Perry, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brian just quoted some of my favorite lyrics ever. The "wild dame" part of lyric is what makes it so pivotal.

Nicole, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan Perry wrote: > That song is Full Force's finest moment.

I'm gonna have to nominate Lisa Lisa And The Cult Jam with Full Force's Spanish Fly LP from 1987 with that distinction.

"Head to Toe" and "Lost In Emotion"...

http://gygax.pitas.com, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, alright....

I believe the point is moot, as Ms.Fox's deeply felt lyrical insights really peaked with the self-actualizing, confessional paean to the intricacies of twentieth centry romance that was "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)."

Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer "Touch Me" as well. It's the bastard child of "Hungry Like a Wolf" and Laura Brannigan's "Self Control".

"Like a tramp in the night, I was begging for you!"

They're both excellent, though.

Arthur, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So she found god, right? And does nothing but bad gospel music now?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Which one had the video with the tough-looking rapper pointing to the camera and bellowing, "Samantha FOX!!!"?

Mark, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So she found god, right? And does nothing but bad gospel music now?

She should tour with Vanity. Battle of the Born Again Bombshells!

Arthur, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She got involved in some kind of pyramid scheme scam with an entrepreneur selling magical diet tea and then came out as a lesbian.

Tom, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

ALL THE TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME

HI DERE, Friday, 4 April 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

Fox was twice linked to Australian con man Peter Foster. They dated in 1986-87 and then, after a seven year separation, they reunited in 1994 for a year. They were at one time reportedly engaged to be married. During this time she and Peter decided to adopt a young Australian boy named Simon. Tragedy struck when Simon accidentally ingested a bottle of alcohol and was then rendered comatose. Fox described Foster as "the love of my life". She has also been in relationships with Paul Stanley, the singer and rhythm guitarist for the band KISS.

In 1994, it was reported that Fox had become a born-again Christian. That year, she played at the Christian arts festival Greenbelt. When queried about how she could reconcile topless modeling with her Christian beliefs, she said:

“ Easily. God gave me my body. I know it has made many people happy. There is no conflict there. I don't and have never promoted pornography. I'm not a born-again Christian because I have always been one. I am doing what God wants me to do. My prayer each night is: "Let me go my way and make people happy. Let me do the right thing." ”

Rumors regarding Fox's sexual orientation began to surface in 1999 when she judged a lesbian beauty pageant, and many people said they believed that the woman she lived with at the time, Australian Cris Bonacci, formerly guitarist with Girlschool, was more than just her manager.

In February 2003, she made a statement about her personal life:

“ But I can't keep saying, "Maybe", or denying it. It's time to let people know where my heart is. People keep trying to say I'm a lesbian. I don't know what I am. All I know is that I'm in love with Myra [Stratton, her manager]. I love her completely and want to spend the rest of my life with her. ”

wau

HI DERE, Friday, 4 April 2008 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

I'm kind of bouncing up and down in my chair thinking about that song. It inhabits a special place in my heart along with "Let's Go All The Way", "Tarzan Boy", "I Wanna Be A Cowboy", "Curiosity", "Right On Track", and "Heart And Soul"..

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

^^^^^ still OTM, btw

HI DERE, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

"Let's Go All The Way" has a special place in my heart because I played the Boogie Boys song that sampled it, like, every day when I was 8. I didn't know what sampling was, so I always assumed Boogie Boys made that metal on metal snare sound by rubbing two knives together.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

There was a period of time when all of those songs listed were on my work mix. I was so happy then.

HI DERE, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

What happened to us, HI DERE?

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

You all need to hear this then.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

omg

HI DERE, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

that song is my manifesto. I have every conceivable mix.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 4 April 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

TS: move out to the left for a while vs. slide to the right for a while

Joseph McCombs, Friday, 4 April 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

I kinda like this one. The synth sounds sound extremely dated now, but the song is kinda cool. Didn't like it at all at the time, but it is now the only Sam Fox song that holds up somewhat.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 April 2008 23:28 (seventeen years ago)

o_O

HI DERE, Saturday, 5 April 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)

this song is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 5 April 2008 06:38 (seventeen years ago)

there's something just deliriously embarrassing about when she says "in the place to be," she sounds like the stock square dude in a sitcom or something

Full Force was so awesome tho

J0hn D., Saturday, 5 April 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

Living in New York...looks like an apple core

APP-le-core

Mark Rich@rdson, Saturday, 5 April 2008 20:58 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...
two years pass...

sometimes I think Samantha Fox is the greatest pop artist of the past 25 years

I immediately crack up afterward, but still

an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 15:57 (thirteen years ago)


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