TS: Robyn 'Who's That Girl' vs Madonna 'Who's That Girl?' vs Eve 'Who's That Girl?' vs Eurythmics 'Who's That Girl?'

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all of these songs are brilliant. at this exact minute in time though Robyn wins.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

kate bush "joanni"

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

(real answer... eurythmics, maybe.)

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

torn between robyn and eve.

― lex logged out, Thursday, 24 November 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

eve!

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Robyn inches out Eve.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Haven't heard in a while but my instinct is going for Eurythmics here.

2)Robyn
3)Madonna
12)Eve

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

The Eve song is one of her best, and I love Eve, so there's no fight.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Dave and Annie rule this one.

― hector savage, Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Eve: "Exec to my own shit, dog, I ownin dot coms!"
Madonna: "She's trouble, in a word -- get closer to the fire"

Robyn: "Who's that girl, what if I'm nothing like her?

I know there's no such girl -- I can't take the pressure!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 November 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Eurythmics are in a league of their own here, at least among those four.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 25 November 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

i.e. Eve and Madonna shift between insider and outsider voices; eve details her own strengths, madonna details the strengths of some other girl who is probably actually her (the same thing she did with her role in desperately seeking susan - she was madonna playing a character who acted exactly like madonna (not to mention rosanna arquette, who also takes up the madonna role; madonna attributes are cooptable, reusable? madonna presents: glam-raggedy tools for living)) but both also take the voice of their smitten admirers - "Who's That Girl?"

whereas Robyn is genuinely befuddled - whoever that girl is, it's not Robyn

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 November 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Eurhythmics also helplessly, hopelessly not That Girl, but it's a ballad/story, a more cowardly version of "Jolene", rather than the kinds of thoughts that annoy the brane even in the absence of any story with any particular boy/fans whatsoever

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 November 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Tracer H posts great posts. I like his casual, ironic erudition.

It's Madonna for me!

― the bellefox, Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

I have just this minute woken up from a dream in which I met Annie Lennox. We had a laugh about a little girl in Superdrug who pulled the entire contents of a shelf down. Annie offered me tickets for a show that evening and asked if there was any song she wanted me to sing. All I could think of was Who That Girl.
So the Eurythmics it is, then.

― davidsim (davidsim), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Eurythmics. The rest are crap, even Madonna's.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

I just like that Robyn is calling out all the previous "Who's That Girl" singers on their fantastical narcissism. "There's no such girl"!!

Plus it's a great great song. It's neck and neck with Eve, though, for me. I don't want to decide between them.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 26 November 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

It seems that I have never heard the songs you mean, Tracer H.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 27 November 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

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