Article Response -- Sterling on Tiffany

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Okay, new articles! First, as mentioned above, Sterling Clover encounters Tiffany.

Comments, thoughts, considerations all welcome. The day or two before Sterling saw her, she was playing, rather loudly by all accounts, just outside my workplace...a library. Thankfully it was my lunch hour and so I escaped before the shit hit the fan, but perhaps I should've stuck around...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She's a survivor etc.

Cracking article, Sterling. Really. I'll have more to say about it but I'm at work and an eagle-eyed boss will spot the FT logo if I try and load it up again.

― Tom, Thursday, 12 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Excellent work. nothing like abject fan-dom to stir the soul. Funnily, I gave 'Could have been' a spin when researching my FT birthday piece, and it really is a stormer too.

― alex thomson, Thursday, 12 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I performed a varinent of this piece at some sort of open mic rrecently. The audience turned on me, and kept telling me "take off your clothes" which under other circumstances would have been quite flattering, and in any case I turned back on the audience and completed the piece as an invective against holier-than-thou arrogant snobs and after hurling a final insult stormed out of the place.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 12 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, avoid at all costs "Tif's Back" and most of the rest of the third album. Seek "We're Both Thinking of Her Tonight" from the second album. And do check out the new one.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 12 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your piece is pathetic just as she is. There is something immensely sad about her utter willingness to be that crowd's saviour, and the fact that she appears to be so earnest about it. I see her performing in such venues until she's 60 or found dead on a sleeping pills OD. (That is the cliché vision I have of her, which I believe many share). While I am seduced by your suggestion that "we all need a Tiffany", I cannot help thinking that it is unfortunate this precise Tiffany should be one's "Tiffany".

― Simon, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry, but who the hell is tiffany? has she released anything in the uk, or is it solely an american thing?

― jess owens, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely you remember the hugely popular cover of "I think we're alone now" circa 1987? The sweet sixteen bloo-jeans/pretty in pink sweater- sporting redhead singing in the mall?

― Simon, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A class piece, Clover, and one I enjoyed. But shame on you for not knowing the words to "Could've Been." That's always been my favorite.

― Otis Wheeler, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twenty-three years pass...

The day or two before Sterling saw her,

standing there?

― peace, man, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 14:14 (one year ago)

which I believe many share

― bae (sic), Tuesday, 6 August 2024 16:02 (one year ago)

interesting how the video for this depicts Tiffany already hella famous, signing autographs etc. it must have been shot a good bit after the song broke on radio.

― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 18:47 (one year ago)

Sorry, “this” - “i think we’re alone now”

― brimstead, Tuesday, 6 August 2024 18:47 (one year ago)

She spent a lot of times playing malls before she broke

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 7 August 2024 06:36 (one year ago)

Oh! Wow, didn’t know that

― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 August 2024 14:30 (one year ago)

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