FIRST TIME Hearing SHAKESPEARS SISTER - "Stay" | REACTION & ANALYSIS
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That moment when Siobhan enters!!!! Her expressions are everything!
It probably helped to be drunk. It enhanced the performance. I like when she walks down the steps with her eyes wide open. It reminded me of Sissy Spacek’s Carrie leaving the prom stage. Siobhan (pronounced “Shi-VON”) was formerly in Bananarama.
She's definitely an Irish wtich
She was drunk when she did the video.
@TheSapphireDragon1 LOL. Love her
@TheSapphireDragon1 yeah it does 🤣
This song is a timeless masterpiece, I never get tired of it or people reacting to its brilliance. One of my all time favorites.
I love Death's eye roll at the end there. Like, fine, I'll get you both later anyway. 😉
Siobhan rolling her eyes near the end: she knows it's inevitable that death will win eventually
I spent the first half grinning waiting to see your reaction for the switch up lol. ‘Death’ was coming to get him but love helped him stay
I get so jealous of people being able to hear this masterpiece for the first time.
Same. Use to scare me as a kid but loved it too. Maybe ill play it for my kids so they so they have trauma lol.
Not me. I am glad I have been able to enjoy this song for over 20 years!
I remember when it came out, it was in the charts for aaaaaages.
Me too! it's so strangely satisfying, even if a little embarrassed at times. I hope this gent has realized who "ban-orama" is by now. 🤭
@@chadhardaway7344 If not, it might shape up to be a cruel summer.
Shakespears Sister were inspired to write this song as part of an imagined soundtrack to a 60's B movie called Catwomen from the Moon that they wanted to buy the rights to and insert their music and themselves. The film is about a race of catwomen who live on the moon without men. The astronauts visit the moon and fall in love and decided to stay. One of them decides to return to earth and this song was imagined to be his lover asking him not to - hence stay with me. The record company refused to buy the film rights and so they decided to continue and make a regular album, Hormonally Yours which contains several songs written for the soundtrack. The video was filmed by their long term director Sophie Muller and as someone says in the comments Siobhan spent the day in the dressing room drinking a bottle of vodka waiting for her scenes to be filmed. The result is her wonky unbalanced walk down the stairs and several instances where she stumbles. You should check out Goodbye Cruel World, Hello, turn your radio on, You're History from them. Famously they fell out, spit up and didn't speak to each other for over 20 years, later reforming to great success.
This is back when musicians were, well ,you know; musicians. And then they added movie directors and shit. It was a fantastic time. Love You Siobhan .
This song is powerful and hauntingly beautiful, a masterpiece in evoking emotion and it gets me every, damn, time I hear it.
I was losing so many of my friends to the AIDS epidemic. To me it was an allegory of what so many of us went through losing friends. The song gutted me then..still does..
Ahhh, yah... for me it was one particular ex-bf who was so close to death from AIDS, it was a real struggle but he got on the cocktail just in time to survive...
is that what that scene represented? I mean I know when she descended down those stairs that she was the representation of death (my wee granny, rip, told me that at the time). didn't know it was about aids though.
@@hmtqnikitashakur3399 I didn't say they did. Just saying that's what it meant to me.
@@seanbyrd9164 never said you said it..... anyway, sorry for your loss. peace, out.
@@hmtqnikitashakur3399 Not any specific illness but definitely about 'possible loss'.
It’s a very interesting vocal performance, and it took me a couple listens to appreciate it fully. Lady number 1 sounds like she’s being strangled by her grief - pretty impressive performance. 👏
I love this guy’s response to the video. It’s easy to write them off as a couple o’ wackadoos, so it’s even more great to hear someone take it seriously and appreciate the art and skill behind it. Sincerity is a rare commodity, and it makes me happy to encounter it on these kinds of platforms. Thank you!☺️🙏
I was a teenager in the 90's and these women have so much talent! Their vocals go in harmony perfectly and hitting higher and lower notes is not easy. The music video shows all the emotions of the story. Loved singing this in choir in 1994. Lol blew my choir teacher away ❤😳
Finally someone has reacted to STAY. I always recommend this one to reactors. THANK YOU!
A fun fact is that Siobhán's performance as death was influenced by her heavy drinking while waiting to to film her scenes
Interesting! I’ve recently heard the quote “Drunken speech is sober thought.” I love her Death! The strides she takes with camera cuts to jerky motions, to lustful expressions as she excitedly anticipates taking this delectable human soul (as are all “reaped”), licking her lips. Then fighting with her mortal enemy in a most gothic way. What I think few notice is the short 1-2 second cuts to Death, rolling her eyes to Heaven (God), knowing she can’t have this one at this time, and then she rather casually disengages her battle and continues forward, knowing his is not a consequential defeat, as there are plenty more souls for her to rip from their bodies as she continues her Purpose of doing exactly that. The instant she realizes “not him, not now”, she’s over it and proceeds in her work while Marci has managed to prolong her earthly live with this man for at least a bit longer. Very “goth”, very Timeless. If this song were released yesterday it wouldn’t sound “dated”. In fact it would remind people of real music, before everyone named themselves after guns and sluts twerked (if you twerk you have given up all rights to complain about being sexually objectified; you’ve chosen and asked to be objectified, and the consequences are yours to live with). Today’s music (with very, very few exceptions) means nothing yet makes billions of dollars. Wonder why the world is in the worst condition in known history post Flood? Turn your radio/app on. It’s self explanatory and deserved. We asked for this. Covid and all. We begged and fought for this. Demanded it. So, now enjoy it. Or find Christ before God ends this world completely.
Well, even Death can be drunk.. maybe without a hangover. (Love her performance to death though)..
I was looking for a comment about this. Siobhán said she was drunk as a skunk in this video. I have to say it works sooo well for the character and performance. She looks absolutely mad and is experiencing such joy in taking the soul of this loved one.
Yes, I read that she got tired of the dragging production time so she went to a nearby bar and got hammered on vodka 😅 She nails it with her fierce expressions.
Siobhan used to be in the '80s British girl band Bananarama. They were well before my time, but they had hits with 'Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)', 'Love In The First Degree' and their still-awesome cover of the song 'Venus'. Siobhan also used to be married briefly to Dave Stewart of the '80s band 'Eurythmics' (who had hits with 'Sweet Dreams', 'There Must Be An Angel', 'Love Is A Stranger', etc.), alongside Annie Lennox, who was also married to Dave for a while. If I recall correctly, the other half of Shakespears Sister, Marcella, used to be a touring backing singer for Eric Clapton before Shakespears Sister.
Bananarama also had cruel summer!!! Love that song!!
Annie was never married to Dave.
Annie Lennox and Dave were in a relationship but were never married.
it really serves the name of the band. like a shakespear play. dark and dramatic. they are such a great duo with marcellas high pitched voice and the contrary deep one from siobhan. "You're history" is another great track and "hello" of course
I think my favourite is 'Hello, Turn Your Radio On.' I also loved 'You're History' and the two new ones they released when they got back together a few years ago, 'When She Finds You' and 'All The Queen's Horses'. One of the few occasions when a band making a comeback is even better than the original. Go Siobhan and Marcella! ps, the comedy duo French and Saunders did a brilliant send up of this video....
I never thought anyone would ever react to this. Such an amazing piece of my youth. Thank you for this.
At 18, I inherited a gay bar. This song was so popular. On many levels.
On a purely musical level, it is incredible. In the time period of AIDs, it has another meaning. It is just a great song.
Every human will go through the story of this song. But, you know, gay bar and AIDS.
did the band ever talk about this? i feel like they must have gotten messages to this affect from their fans; i was a toddler when it came out, but a close family friend died of aids shortly after, and i remember my mother having a real hard time watching this vid afterwards :(
@@littlefoxglove276 I am sorry for your family's loss.
I think they have commented. As well as done benefits. But I might be imagining that.
"At 18, I inherited a gay bar."
I have questions.
@@Tao_Tology lol. Like what?
Some people get a boat or a stamp collection or maybe a house when their uncle passes away. I got a bar.
I got his whole estate including the bills. Not uncommon. Just wasn't what I expected at 18. I will say that the gay community were very supportive - especially when I said I would do what ever I could to not sell it and keep it being a place they could be themselves.
I love this song, but I can't make it past the first verse without tearing up. It reminds me of a particular experience in my life... Back in the mid-90's my boyfriend (who I still loved DEARLY) and I broke up. I then moved to the USA. I got a call from friends telling me that my ex was really suffering from AIDs and only had a few weeks to live. I went back to see him - he was skeletal - his knees were larger than his thighs - he couldn't leave his apartment. I knew he didn't have long. I went back to the USA. I heard there was a new cocktail of drugs that was working on AIDs patients. One of the doctors who worked on the experiments was in my city. I went to him and begged for help with my ex. The doctor told me that he couldn't prescribe drugs to someone he had never seen and they were very expensive drugs without insurance. I just kept trying to convince him. The doctor finally broke - He said, 'You really aren't leaving are you? You really love this guy." Then said he could get drug samples and half used bottles from patients who were still passing away. I came by his office and picked up these drugs and sent them across the world to my ex. I had to wrap them and hide what they were because they had not been approved in that country yet. His doctors worked with him using the new drugs and he made a full recovery. 6 months of sending drugs and finally they were approved by my ex's country and he could get them locally. 25 years later and he is incredibly healthy and living a full life. It was such a close call... But I felt what was in this song - I loved someone who was dying - the chances were very low - but I'm going to fight death - and we got very lucky to find a compassionate doctor who bent a rule and gave him life.
Well this comment didn't set off the tears much!! So glad that he made it through - and hope he appreciates just what you managed to do for him. A true hero
@@richardhunter7363 - Yes, he appreciates it. I got lucky finding a compassionate doctor. On his 40th birthday (long ago now) he organized a large outdoor BBQ buffet party. His parents were also there. We were all sitting down ready to eat, but he was speaking with his mom a few yards away, and no one would start without the birthday boy. So I walked over and tried to politely interrupted them just to note that everyone were waiting on him to start. He turned and walked to the table, but his mother cornered me... She said, "Hold on, I need to say something..." She told me that they never expected him to make it to 30 and he just turned 40 and they know they owed the last decade to me. She just needed me to know how much they appreciate me and that he doesn't always show it but he really does too and that behind my back he speaks about me like I'm an incredibly special person. I didn't expect her to say all that... I was almost in tears... She was almost in tears. I just said "Got it - let's go eat". I didn't want us both in tears in front of everyone at his party, but I was so touched by her words. The next morning he told me that his father made him promise to tell me something. I told him, I think I got the message loud and clear from your mother. We laughed and let it go....
@@gregbrogan9061 thank you for your reply. If the C4 drama It's A Sin was anything to go by, living at a time when AIDS started to become prevalent must have been an horrendous time - I sobbed throughout the program - it really rang home to me - the characters were the same age as I was at the time; things like sitting and waiting for the AIDs ad, voiced by John Hurt, to come on, were memories of my youth; the fear; the ignorance of what it was and who it could affect - the famous Gay plague headlines - a truly awful time. Back in 85 my mum found some gay printed material that I had (why she was taking out drawers I'll never know), I was curious and finding my way (I was 22 at the time) - her reaction was intense to say the least, full on break down. Her fear manifested in telling me how I would never be loved, would be lonely throughout my life and would die alone - it was truly extreme. Well it was enough to crush the curiosity and I ended up married and had a family and a conventional life. I am really still so angry that someone I always regarded as my rock, my true confident, could react in such a way. It became about her and not about me. I don't think I have ever really forgiven her for her reaction and now she is gone I can never have that conversation and the event was never spoken of ever again. However her prediction came true - 1 divorce later, kids too busy to keep you in their lives and yes, I am alone and sometimes lonely. Times have changed so much. A friend of mine from school had never had any gay experiences until in his 50s, met a chap, fell in love and is now very happily married. 6 years ago I had embolisms on both lungs and was lucky to survive - it was like a switch turning in my life - before I was a standard northern working class guy, no tears regardless - don't even think I cried at my Mums funeral - I came home from the hospital to an empty house, sat on the stairs and sobbed - had to get out of the house as a panic attack came. From that point on my emotions lie beneath the thinnest of skins, videos, TV, music can all set off the waterworks (your note above for 1) and I am now trying to decide whether to make more changes in life? The curiosity has always been there (there were times, even when married when I would buy/watch gay porn, and at the time that was enough) and in these more enlightened times should I take that further? I don't know and I might never make that decision but at least I feel that that decision would be mine and mine alone.
@@richardhunter7363 - Wow - that sounds like quite an internal struggle. It sounds like you are single and have nothing to lose by trying it. What is holding you back? That switch turning on your emotions seems to be liberation and an invitation to live your life. You sound like a lovely guy, I think your mom is wrong - and you can certainly find love.
I was with my 1st boyfriend for 6 years when I came out to my mom. She loved him and treated him like family. He had moved from the USA to Asia for me at one point, we moved back to the USA and it was my turn to move to South Africa for him. I figured my mom knew the situation so it shouldn't be such a big deal to come out to her. But she didn't handle it so well - she said she was happy knowing we were best friends who were so close that we would move around the world together but she didn't need to know it was more. Then she told me she was afraid of AIDS and wanted me to promise never to have sex again. I couldn't make that promise. I told her I was planning to tell dad the next day - but she begged me not to - he is too conservative Catholic and wouldn't take it well. I was so thrown off that I didn't tell dad and I moved to SA. I ended up breaking up with that SA boyfriend and then had another (the one I mentioned in my 1st comment). Soon after we broke up (the one from the comment) my father and mother were both sick with cancer, so I went back to the USA to see them. My father and I took a walk, and he asked me what was bothering me - I said 'You and mom are both sick, of course I'm worried" but he replied 'I know that's bothering you, but there is something else and I don't understand why you aren't telling me' (my father and I were extremely close and sex/relationships was the only thing we didn't speak about). So I told him I had a bad breakup but it's not a big deal, I'll get over it. He was really surprised, he said 'I don't get it, you are clearly heart broken, you are clearly in love, and you tell me everything but never even mentioned you were in a relationship'. I felt stuck... I had put my foot in it and couldn't really back out now. So I told him, remember sometimes my flatmate would pick up the phone when you called me? He said, 'Yes - seemed like a nice guy, so?' I told him 'Well, that was my boyfriend, I'm gay". It clearly was unexpected for my father and took him a bit to reply, but then he said 'I'm so sorry - all those years growing up gay, it must have been so hard for you, and you never knew I was there for you.' I told him 'I'm sorry, I just didn't know if you could accept me.' He replied "Accept you? What's to accept? You're my son, I love you.' I really didn't plan to come out to him, but it went so well - his reply was really . I then needed to leave the USA to go back to work. 3 months later the cancer caught up with him and it moved so quickly that he passed away the morning I arrived back in the USA to see him, and I never got to say "good-bye". But I am so grateful that 3 months earlier I told him I was gay, and that he totally accepted me. It was the most valued conversation of my life.
Your mom may not have handled it so well - but it was out of concern for you - I'm sure she would want you happy and these are different days...
Wow. Thank you - both of you - for sharing these very personal stories here. They moved me deeply.
@Greg Brogan I’m so glad you were able to find a compassionate doctor who was willing to help you, and that the cocktail worked for your ex-boyfriend! I am also very glad you had such a positive, life-affirming conversation with your father; it must have been wonderful to finally get that secret off your chest and find out that it didn’t change his love for or pride in you! He obviously had a sixth sense pushing him to keep up the questions until he got to the real answer of what was bothering you, so it’s no surprise that a man with that much empathy would respond as he did by commenting on how lonely you probably felt as a child once you realized you were gay. If only every child had parents like this, the world would be a much better place.
For the record, I’m a straight, divorced woman who has many gay and lesbian friends, and who had a lot more before the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which in my opinion was/is far worse than COVID (and I’ve taken COVID very seriously!), especially since it’s still very bad in Africa. Anyway.
@Richard Hunter I am so sorry that your mother responded in such an unsupportive way when she found those pamphlets. She missed out on a chance to truly get to know you, and that is a real shame because it’s obvious just from what you have written here that you are a deeply sensitive person with a very good heart. I think Greg has given some excellent advice already, but if you don’t mind, I’d like to add three things. First, if you haven’t done so already, please consider seeing a therapist to help you work through your anger with your mother because the way things happened may still be affecting your feeling truly able *to make* any decision to act on your interest in gay sex. Second, if and when you make that decision to act, make sure you are mostly sober - a drink or two is fine, but you want to make certain everything you do is what you really *want* to occur (plus, you’ll want to remember the experience later! 😉😉😉). Lastly, your experience when you got home from the hospital after a diagnosis of pulmonary embolisms of crying and then having a panic attack in response to returning to an empty house reminded me of the story Pete Buttigieg (who ran for the Democratic nomination for president in the US and is now Biden’s Secretary of Transportation) who ran has told about his own coming out. He was in the US Navy and fighting in Afghanistan when he made a promise to himself that if he survived his tour of duty, he would come out to his family and friends so he could find a boyfriend … because he was faced with the reality of how short life can be and had finally accepted that he deserved to be loved. He kept his promise, and today he is happily married and they recently adopted twins. You deserve to be loved, too, whether you are gay, straight, bisexual, or anything else under the LGBTQIA umbrella. And whether that means you first need to finish the questioning process that was interrupted by your mother’s unfortunate response when you were younger, or that you simply need to gather the courage to act on who you already know you are, I hope you won’t wait any longer to move forward.
I wish you both happy, healthy relationships!
If anybody says they don't love the French and Saunders sketch of this.... then you're lying lol
Dicken's Daughter 😂
That was funny and the bross😂
The Marywhitehouse Experience sketch is also great.
This is beautiful and touching song. Her voice is incredible.I remember this band from 90s and i like song "Hello" to. Great reaction as always❤️
Bananarama were a quite a revolutionary first modern girl trio band in the 80s. Cruel Summer is a Bangerr, and many others. Although they made pop music, their story into music, and in the industry as the first modern all girl trio / band in the UK had a profound affect on millions of young girls in the UK, US, and the World. They helped break open the music industry for female groups in the modern era.🙏❤️😎
Ya this is a beautifully intense song their voices are great
Full of surprises this song and video. Massive hit in the day.
Yes! A masterpiece. I've been listening to it continuously since 1992. Thanks for resurrecting it from oblivion.
Oh yeah. My MTV moment as a kid.
Must be super tough to sing this!!
I don't know if she could ever hit the 'whistle' notes of someone like Mariah, but she was pretty damn close.
One of the BEST songs ever.....I always have it on my mixed cd in the car.
Bananarama was an 80's girl group, best known for their cover of Venus, and Cruel summer. When the group was breaking up, Siobhan Lahey, at the time was married to Dave Stewart (partner of Annie Lennox in the Eurythmics), so she was easily able to get a record deal. Marcella Detroit, who is the main singer and writer of this song, is a pseudonym of Marcy Levy, who had originally been brought into the project to write some songs, and ended up becoming half of the group. Marcy was already somewhat known from her collaborations with Eric Clapton in his 70's US solo period which produced his big hit albums (No Reason to Cry, Slowhand, Backless), having written and sang on some of his best songs from the period, including Lay Down Sally (which she co-wrote). She also co-wrote The Core, and Roll it. If you are interested, listen to Clapton's "The Core" to get another side of Marcy/Marcella's songwriting and singing gifts.
The lady who played death is Siobhan from Bananarama !
I never tire of watching people see this for the first time..when this originally came out i recorded the video instantly liking it..and showed it to my sister to see her reaction of it .. Other good songs by them are I Don't Care, Hello (Turn The Radio On) ..their name came from a Smiths song title .
This song accompanied me through my first lovesickness....it's still in my playlist today. Damn... he still touches me today. beautiful. I love the 80's and 90's heartbreak classics. Nice to see your enthusiasm too. Greetings from Berlin.....
Takes me back! One thing people never comment on is the video's direction. It's incredible. All the shots are spot on and enhance the song in every way.
Follow your dreams my brother...
Hope they all come to you.
Yeah, this song is rad and I'll never get tired of it.
As much as I love this song, I can't help but think of the French and Saunders sketch whenever I see the video.
Literally came here today this
Fun fact: French and Saunders also did a parody with Banarama, a band that Siobhan (drunk death, here) was ALSO in!
I loved your interpretation. It was neither mine nor the artists', but it's great. They were influenced by an old film "Cat-women of the Moon," about a queen on another planet who didn't want to let the human man she loved go back to earth. But I love what you have to say about it. Isn't it a masterpiece?
I know that Siobhan represents Death here but I also always interpreted Marcella as portraying addiction. She wants the man to stay alive so she can continue controlling and consuming him. If he dies, she dies. Death comes to mock the man, telling him that he can either die now or wake up and continue being addicted. Death doesn't care if the man survives now as his outlook isn't good either way. Marcella's lines really hint at this interpretation:
When the world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand
In the silence of your room
In the darkness of your dreams
You must only think of me
There can be no in-between
When your pride is on the floor
I'll make you beg for more"
i think i remember this video being banned in some country for the depiction of resurrection, hello(turn your radio on) is my favorite by them.
Thanks for doing this one! I'm so glad you dug it! 💜🖤💜
Since no one commented on where the name Shakespeares sister came from. It came from the Smiths song Shakespeares sister. I have always loved them. This song came out my freshman year and it was a game changer.
That song was #1 for weeks... And well deserved
One of my favourite songs of all time, sat here in tears watching it!
Be sure to check out the Shakespear Sister's: "Hello (Turn Your Radion On)"!
I bought this on vinyl when it was released. Brought back memories.
True music is timeless and can bring emotions to every generation.
Great to see this music video provoke some deep thought & reflection on life & death, which I think is exactly what they intended to do with this song and visuals. This era of music had much more intelligent creativity than today’s.
Their live version is excellent as well. There's a Top of the Pops version where they're all goth'd out and they are freaking fantastic. Siobhan steals the show for me though with her energy, expressions, and the way she sings her part. And Marcella's no joke either, she hits those notes live and its crazy.
Was it a live performance?
TOTP _loved_ a good ol' lip sync.
@@Tao_Tology yes, but they werent lip-synching
I get chills too. Every time
Fun fact: for the bit where Siobhan is slowly descending the stairs in a menacing way, she was actually very drunk there. She mentioned this later on. She said she had been waiting around all day to film that bit for the video and, she was so bored, that she enjoyed too much vodka to pass the time. Lol. 😆
It's Banana-rama, not Bana-rama, lol. I'll let you off this mistake as it is quite an odd band name and other reaction channels have made the same mistake. I think their most famous don't and one that has been covered and that I think you'll have heard is the song Cruel Summer, but they are an all girl pop group from the 80s. I particularly like Love In The First Degree. You should definitely check that out!!! (Oh and if you do talk about the band members please learn how to say the name Siobhan beforehand)
another good bit of trivia about Siobhan, that I don't think is mentioned anywhere else, but at the time was married to Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics. Love this song
Factoids of the day. Shakespeares Sister holds the record this side of the pond for an all female band in the UK charts to be number 1 at 8 weeks.
Apparently they had been drinking vodka before they did the video to Stay and were pretty pissed, when you see the lower toned singer come down the stairs she actually was drunk and it added to it.
Sadly this song led to the break up of Shakespears Sister, they won an award for the song and video and Marcy (the main singer here) got told by her management that night. They managed to even it out but it took until 2015 from 1994.
It was done on purpose and yes she is a master of her art. And I knew your first word was going to be WOW ! 😂
One of the greatest drops in the history of pop.
Great reaction. Loved how you really let the song hit you.
Oh hell yeah! Y'all have _earned_ my *Subscribe* because your reaction & interpretation(s) are, in words of one syllable & not to put too fine a point on it, _perfect!_
Its brilliant! The contrasts, the battle, the passion. Brilliant singing, production and acting. Masterpiece. 🙂
Great reaction to a brilliant song and video. I wish everyone was as open minded as yourself!
Thanks,keep up the good work
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Loved it!
Apart from Stay, my top 3 S S songs would be "My 16th apology", "Hello", and "I don´t care"
I came here to hear your reaction. and i Ended hearing you question death..... This is a great take!
This song is indeed a masterpiece and was a monster hit in its day. It spent 8 weeks at No.1 in the UK in 1992!
(And Siobhan Fahey was so hot in this) :D
"Hello - Turn Your Radio On" is a *must* if you liked this. Also "I Don't Care" and "You're History" were other hits of theirs.
Totally on the same page as you about death, btw!
Plus that was back when to get to No 1 you * really * had to shift a lot of singles.
Beautiful 😍
Love this song. It will always give me chills and bring on emotions I've yet to match with anyone.
We got it pure in the 90’s
Your reaction brought me right back to my reaction to the debut. Your eye pop at “when your pride is on the floor, I’ll make you beg for more”, pre flip flip.
This entire album “Hormonally Yours” is a masterpiece.
Your comments at 9:45 just reassured me, you’ll probably LOVE the album.
Thanks for the time warp.
Well Done🎉
Been watching your vids for a bit now..Heart, Avril...Loved them, you are so insightful and I really enjoy them, so subbed;) thanks for all the hard work..Had no idea that one of them was from Bananarama ..Im your venus group...I love this song, I stumbled upon it in college, with a Friend who as way cooler with music than I was, and I love it;)
Haven’t watched you for a while - glad to see your remain as handsome as ever.
This song was number one wen I was born 😂 I always put it on wen I’m drunk now 😂
I love this song and video so much especially the bridge part
My top 3 for vocals that cry out with raw painful emotion and bring me to immediate tears:
This one - Shakespears Sister - "Stay"
And the two Irish singers:
Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares to You" (A break up song)
The Cranberries (Dolores O'Riordan) - "Zombie" (It's a song about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It's said she uses Irish "keening" as she sings - that is a traditional wailing used in funerals/wakes in the old days in Ireland and expresses deep sorrow anguish - almost a crazed pain.) Dolores was just so talented - RIP.
Irish are good at expressing pain in music.
Feel so different by Sinead is far more impressive
@@sito7186 Sinead has an amazing voice... and singing style.
The witchy one from this Shakespeare sister is also irish
@@siofra3819 - Yup!
Enough with the Mick cultural appropriation... Shakespears Sister are 🇬🇧
You young people listening to the music I grew up with is HIllarious!
Yes this song is a masterpiece, and the two singers really are talented. With remarkable voices. I always love the scene where Siobhan enters. Growing up I always related to women with deeper voices either alto or contralto . And those who came across strong and independent. I think it was because they sounded more like me. I never had a girlie singing voice. But I was one of the lead singers in our school and church choir . And I was always more of a grungy, punk sort of girl as well.
Siobahn was DRUNK when it came time to film her parts. Made Death even more insane looking.
And now there is a cover version of this song from the band Ghost. Which is really awesome! You should listen to it, if you haven't done that yet.
Love your reaction / interpretation ! 'battling over the fate of this man '.
amazing song and video
I bought this song on CD single back in the day, I came back after a cover of it was done on the latest Insidious movie. One thing you didn't mention was the look on "death"'s face after he was saved, because he was saved for now, but she'd get him eventually...
Please react to Hello (Turn Your Radio On) and I Don't Care by them!
Check out more from Shakespeare Sister, also from the same album Goodbye Cruel World and the from their recent reunion All The Queens Horses.
This song, Hello (Turn your radio on) and You're History are my all-time favorites by these awesome ladies.
Timeless banger
The girl who played the Angel of death was a singer in the group Bananarama in the 80's
One of my favorites ❤️
Man that light coming through the curtains behind you looks like an angel, very apt...
Great song & her voice 🔥
Fun fact: If the 2nd singer appears drunk' it's because she was! She was absolutely off her face drunk, and the bit where struggling over his body, Marcella is genuinely trying to control her, like, "Pull it together, woman, we're working here!!" - Tom Kennedy (comment on another reaction)
One of my favourite songs ever
It's one amazing classic.. the first number 1, I remember as kid.
Marcella is such a good singer that I think she's doing it on purpose. They are both beautiful and talented ladies. Siobhan is hot and does the crazy look in this videos so well. The story goes that she was drunk on Vodka out of boredom waiting to shoot the video.
CLASSIC!
Your analogy helps both of us fear death less, so thank you for that!!!
The entire album this comes from (Hormonally Yours) is equally adventurous from a production standpoint... VERY worth a listen!!!
Even people who don't really know Bananarama at least know "Cruel Summer" because it was in the original "The Karate Kid", or because it has been covered a few times.
P.S. I love when you say "I got chills". I know those exact chills.
The long haired girl that played death is Siobahn Fahey formerly of Bananarama.
Siobhan's... interesting performance as Death here is due to her having drunk rather too much vodka beforehand!
Comedy genius/legend Jennifer Saunders credits Bananarama as being the inspiration for her signature gags of her AbFab character Eddy falling drunk out of cars.
It wasn't alcohol. She was high af.😄
It is emotional like crazy ..
Bananarama were a fun staple of the 80s and before that backed the Fun Boy Three (also fun !), they had a few incarnations/lineups.
Part of the reason that "the angel of death" was so manic is that she was smashed by the time they got to her section of the video at the end of the day (and apparently could barely stand ?)
One of the bosses songs ever!!! made. I'm sat here trying to do an acoustic version of it, but I Don't wanna fuck with it, it's too perfect...a song of my late teens early adult lessons. Every thing they did was on purpose.
Great streamer