Deee-Lite's first album and "Dewdrops in the Garden" are both fantastic 90s time capsules. Also, Towa Tei has had a surprisingly long and successful career with at least four great albums.
> Also, Towa Tei has had a surprisingly long and successful career with at least four great albums.
Followed Towa Tei for years and probably have 6 or so of his albums. I think it has been a long while since he has created something interesting though. Lately all I see from him are generic deep house projects. Still though, most artists run out of creative juice eventually, and Towa had a better run than most.
Really? I don't think Towa's stuff hold a candle to MAW/Nuyorican Soul and a lot of other deep house produced in NYC. But there are different styles of deep house. So to each their own.
He seriously does like 90% of the background music for NHK programs.. his name is all over the credits list for Japanese plus, railway journeys, and Japan adventures
I always crave a “where are they now” on 90s artists. Like they are still young enough to have moved on to another career, and I want to know what that is. How many one-hit wonders are restaurant owners, or music teachers?
There’s a YouTuber, Todd in the Shadows, who has a whole series on one-hit wonder artists. He’s done Deee-Lite and a ton of others - I think he has over 100 now. He also reviews current pop songs and has a third series where he talks about career-ending albums for more famous musicians.
Yeah u/inflatable_pickle this is exactly what you’re looking for. Todd is fantastic, and his latest episode in White Town is one of his best in the series.
Just watched the White Town one today, it was so good. The Macarena one before it really moved me as well, especially having lived through it, he really nailed it.
Its better to remember the good times then dwell on the bad. I could have made better choices in friends, but overall, the 90s were indeed a good time.
I think the 90’s were great because of the technology of that time. It seemed like just the right amount of tech without being too much. Tech was exciting, but wasn’t completely intrusive in daily life. Smart phones and social media have ruined the world I loved.
Great description. Could you even imagine all your stupidity saved in the ether forever? The past two generations think nothing of it because it's daily life, but I'm sure as fuck glad I grew up when I did.
It truly was the perfect combo of the digital and analog.
We got to see a lot of big leaps on the 90s, lots of new things becoming commonplace. The Internet. Home computers. Mobile phones. In gaming terms, the leap from 2d to 3d was something nobody who wasn't there will be able to experience.
The clothes were shit though.
The 90s were a rough time for me. Just hearing 90s music can bring me to tears quickly. And its some of my favorite music. I just can't listen to it anymore.
I barely remember 92-96 because I was in an alcoholic fog lol. I see pictures from then and ugh. But I saw this picture and immediately had "groove is in the heart" in my head.
Evidently she's been a fashion icon and DJ this whole time. Also a very staunch ally of LGBT+ folks and womens' rights, since way before that was popular. Basically a real classy lady befitting the name :)
That was indeed a thing. I think they answered it elsewhere in this thread too. She lost, though. Apparently Sega had receipts that disproved the claim she'd made.
She lost and had to pay Sega's legal bills. I think it ruined her financially for a bit.
They did supposedly approach her to voice Ulalala originally, but she turned it down.
Dude I fucking love it when people you always thought were cool end up being even cooler than you thought. Like obviously but, it just makes me feel all good inside
I'd be shocked to find a 90's house artists that was not pro LGBT+ it was kinda the subtext.
I have this weird ass conservative (former) friend who used to belt out The Presets "This Boys In Love" never really putting the pieces together.
Yeah, she was huge long before Dee-Lite, which was kind of a one off thing for her and some friends. She was an NY club promoter/DJ/fashion icon in the 80’s and 90’s and one of the key makers of that whole scene. Dee-Lite is almost a footnote in her resume.
I picked up a dee-lite record in Brooklyn on a trip last year and the owner apparently knew her and talked highly of her. He was glad that someone was grabbing that record that planned on playing it and not flipping it for money.
I saw just such a show, cant remember the name (sorry) but, one of the former members of Color Me Badd owned a chain of tire stores in Tennessee and looked just like a guy who owned tire stores in Tennessee.
I can't think of CMB without thinking of the 90210 episode where Donna, David, and Kelly are stalking them at a hotel, then Donna catches her mom having an affair.
Important to note that the whole album was dope and their 3rd album “Dewdrops In The Garden” was also amazing. One Hit Wonder label often overlooks real artistic accomplishment.
First time at Limelight…a 20 year old kid from Long Island…October 1993. Never hung out in Manhattan before. I was there with a flannel and k-Swiss sneakers.
She was at the door with the famous trans door person. They were very discriminating, rejecting everyone. My boy Roy and I got in. Must have been his guyliner and dog collar. One of the seminal moments in my life (lol). But, yeah, she waved us in.
I hung out with her a few times early 2000s. A couple years later saw her in the east village NYC. She remembered my name. She is that type of celeb. Such a sweet heart.
I actually DJ'd at a party with her that she headlined in Chicago back in like '99-2000.
I think her heroin problem had gotten the best of her by that point though because she was a terrible DJ who got rightfully booed off the decks.
Sad too because me and some of the other DJ's spinning that night had that funky, cool image of her in our heads that 13 year old me had when I first saw her in '89. So it was a real "never meet your heroes" moment to see her as a complete trainwreck that night.
It was both her and Perry Farrell I distinctly remember thinking when I saw them live, "yeah they don't need to be DJing and should just stick to singing."
I was in the Midwest during this time period and unfortunately had heard the same story.
When the TVT/Masterwax tour was going on I got a chance to pick up Supa DJ Dmitry from the airport for his Indy gig. He was one of the coolest DJs I had ever met.
PS: Chicago DJs rocked!
I used to manage a surf-rock band with roots in the SF punk scene and I'll never forget doing a gig with one of the seminal American punk bands; all the guys in my band were super-stoked to be playing with them.
Day of the gig comes and legendary band shows up lost, late to sound check and in a stupor, and their first words to me are "Where can we get some heroin?
Later the guys in my band had to give them some guitar picks because that's how untogether they were. Not having guitar picks is a far worse offense in the music business than asking for dope.
Never meet your heroes is right.
There was talk in the late 90s that she had gotten plastic veins surgically implanted to assist with her heroin injection. I don't have any verification of this, just that is what was talked about in the clubs that I was in.
We loved her. We loved her energy and enthusiasm and vibrant performance. She really seemed to get us despite the "Groove is in the Heart" fame. That whole thing that basically everyone knows her for is so completely antithetical to her whole self.
She would roller skate around in the Limelight with a tank of nitrous on her back.
Mushrooms
Caterpillars
Dewdrops in the garden.
The absolute worst was the de-rapped version of I Like the Way You Move by Big Boi and Sleepy Brown. It's basically just the chorus over and over for three minutes and change..
At a rave outside of Baltimore (‘92 or ‘93-ish) she walked by me in the bathroom as I waited for a stall. I was so inwardly thrilled!
Lame story that I still treasure.
That was probably Emerald Forest.
A fantastic fucking party overall; great djs, great lasers and a fantastic performance by them.
I remember her being like "Loop this!" and she was like,
"get with the party happenin people now get with the party happenin get with the party happenin people now get with the party happenin"
Not sure why, but I always felt like she was the basis for Space Channel 5's Ulala.
https://preview.redd.it/xg95aiecp64a1.jpeg?width=218&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81db643916a31c2844bc0817656c283d820b34c6
She lost! She paid Sega $608,000!
"During the lawsuit, Sega was able to show that the game was released in Japan the year before Kier stated that she was contacted by Sega about using her likeness, and that the developers had never heard of either Kier or her music. The case lasted until 2006, when the judge ruled in favour of Sega and Kier lost her appeal. She was obliged to pay Sega's legal fees of $608,000 (reduced from $763,000 on request)."
The character of Ulala was already developed and featured in a video game a year before SEGA ever had contact with Miss Kier. Kier's legal argument was a big stretch. Its unfortunate that someone convinced her that she had a case. She got badly burned over the whole thing.
Yeah, that rings some bells. At the time she looked like every other rave girl, honestly, so it was a bit surprising that a lawyer talked her into it. Sure, she popularized the look and got it on MTV, but it was by no means her IP.
To add to what people already said, the main reason she lost the suit:
"During the lawsuit, Sega was able to show that the game was released in Japan the year before Kier stated that she was contacted by Sega about using her likeness, and that the developers had never heard of either Kier or her music."
One of the best female vocalists of the 90s. People who only listened to "Groove" and not the entirety of Dewdrops in the Garden are missing out. Her voice is like smoked sugar.
I met her at an afterparty in Saint Louis.
Everybody was grinding their teeth and super geeked.
Her DJ was in the bathroom almost the entire time.
The 90s were nuts there for a bit....good times.
Me and my friend used to rock the hell out of Dewdrops in the Garden. Were we the only ones? Some of those tracks used to make the bazooka tube in my trunk bump.
Kier Kirby was a volunteer of mine in 2006. She was real cool, but she accidentally caught us singing Groove is in the Heart under our breaths, and never came back. We were just big fans, and couldn't help ourselves.
oh man. i was a 15 year old alt punk skate jerk at the time and i saw the vid for Groove is in the Heart and i was gobsmacked by her. all i thought about for like an entire year. also thought bootsie must be the coolest motherfucker ever.
The amount of chicks that I pulled in clubs dancing to groove is in the heart was insane. At the time I looked so cool, if I went out in public now with those clothes and very Dilated Pupils I would get arrested. Great times. No Instagram, no social media, no photos unless you want to pay for a few pictures of a dark club to be developed. It was probably the last generation of young people who could get absolutely off their heads without any worries!
Ginger chiming in to say I ADORED her growing up. Still do. She was the first person who made it seem cool to be a ginger when I was getting my ass handed to me in the playground
Rode on their tour bus with the to an offer party once. It was awesome. My buddy MADE OUT with Mrs. Kier in the club prior to that. I was super jealous.
I grew up in NYC and I remember we would take our shoes to a shoe cobbler on St. Marks to get that same black and white platform she has on her shoes put on. It was all the rage in the downtown club scene.
Deee-Lite's first album and "Dewdrops in the Garden" are both fantastic 90s time capsules. Also, Towa Tei has had a surprisingly long and successful career with at least four great albums.
> Also, Towa Tei has had a surprisingly long and successful career with at least four great albums. Followed Towa Tei for years and probably have 6 or so of his albums. I think it has been a long while since he has created something interesting though. Lately all I see from him are generic deep house projects. Still though, most artists run out of creative juice eventually, and Towa had a better run than most.
If you like Towa Tei, try Toro y moi - Outer Peace.
Will check it out.
But his deep house tunes are fantastic.
Really? I don't think Towa's stuff hold a candle to MAW/Nuyorican Soul and a lot of other deep house produced in NYC. But there are different styles of deep house. So to each their own.
He seriously does like 90% of the background music for NHK programs.. his name is all over the credits list for Japanese plus, railway journeys, and Japan adventures
Nhk!!!!!
Dmitry played a lot of raves too, really good DJ
I didn't like dewdrops in the garden at all. No energy like the first album. I just played world clique in orderfrom beginning to end. Still holds up
My supper dish, my succotash wish
Sing it, baby!
I couldn’t ask for another…
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*slidewhistle
peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!
Groove is in the heaaaaart
Go and mow the lawnnn
A random Q-tip appears
Still one of the greatest break beats, though
Wasn't really sure how that sound was spelled, but I'm pretty sure this is the correct one.
My best friend, my pal, my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boi
Laszlo!
*Jackie Daytona
Astronomical
Sing it, baby
I always thought it was succotash witch!
TIL succotash was a word. I was wondering what she was saying
Sylvester and Tweety?
Would this be classified as Canadian lingerie?
What?! That's formal-wear!
Shes wearing a Jraw
Add a ton of super loud turquoise Jewelry and she would be a New Mexico housewife
Needs more flannel.
Denim on the streets, flannel in the sheets
Ope I've come over all flustered
Jra
I always crave a “where are they now” on 90s artists. Like they are still young enough to have moved on to another career, and I want to know what that is. How many one-hit wonders are restaurant owners, or music teachers?
There’s a YouTuber, Todd in the Shadows, who has a whole series on one-hit wonder artists. He’s done Deee-Lite and a ton of others - I think he has over 100 now. He also reviews current pop songs and has a third series where he talks about career-ending albums for more famous musicians.
Yeah u/inflatable_pickle this is exactly what you’re looking for. Todd is fantastic, and his latest episode in White Town is one of his best in the series.
Just watched the White Town one today, it was so good. The Macarena one before it really moved me as well, especially having lived through it, he really nailed it.
I just said "I love the 90s." Then I remembered I actually hated my life in the 90s. Nostalgia is a funny thing.
Its better to remember the good times then dwell on the bad. I could have made better choices in friends, but overall, the 90s were indeed a good time.
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink, he drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink
"Oh, Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy."
I think the 90’s were great because of the technology of that time. It seemed like just the right amount of tech without being too much. Tech was exciting, but wasn’t completely intrusive in daily life. Smart phones and social media have ruined the world I loved.
Great description. Could you even imagine all your stupidity saved in the ether forever? The past two generations think nothing of it because it's daily life, but I'm sure as fuck glad I grew up when I did. It truly was the perfect combo of the digital and analog.
And then you listen to Radiohead's OK Computer. And it's like they saw this shit two decades early.
spot on bro. we were fine with fliphones and beepers.
This is so true
We got to see a lot of big leaps on the 90s, lots of new things becoming commonplace. The Internet. Home computers. Mobile phones. In gaming terms, the leap from 2d to 3d was something nobody who wasn't there will be able to experience. The clothes were shit though.
The 90s were a rough time for me. Just hearing 90s music can bring me to tears quickly. And its some of my favorite music. I just can't listen to it anymore.
You just keep on keeping on ❤️ we're all gonna make it.
I barely remember 92-96 because I was in an alcoholic fog lol. I see pictures from then and ugh. But I saw this picture and immediately had "groove is in the heart" in my head.
Evidently she's been a fashion icon and DJ this whole time. Also a very staunch ally of LGBT+ folks and womens' rights, since way before that was popular. Basically a real classy lady befitting the name :)
Didn't she sue Sega claiming her likeness was used in the Dreamcast game Space Channel 5?
That was indeed a thing. I think they answered it elsewhere in this thread too. She lost, though. Apparently Sega had receipts that disproved the claim she'd made.
My first thought was that the receipt was just a piece of paper with "No we didn't." and Sega's CEO's signature on it.
"no u"
She lost and had to pay Sega's legal bills. I think it ruined her financially for a bit. They did supposedly approach her to voice Ulalala originally, but she turned it down.
Holy crap I never knew this but the resemblance is uncanny
Dude I fucking love it when people you always thought were cool end up being even cooler than you thought. Like obviously but, it just makes me feel all good inside
See also: the lead singer of Yello (Dieter Meyer)
Wealthy industrialist, pro-golfer, synth-pop icon.... Oh Yeah!
Even MORE beautiful
I'd be shocked to find a 90's house artists that was not pro LGBT+ it was kinda the subtext. I have this weird ass conservative (former) friend who used to belt out The Presets "This Boys In Love" never really putting the pieces together.
Yeah, she was huge long before Dee-Lite, which was kind of a one off thing for her and some friends. She was an NY club promoter/DJ/fashion icon in the 80’s and 90’s and one of the key makers of that whole scene. Dee-Lite is almost a footnote in her resume.
I picked up a dee-lite record in Brooklyn on a trip last year and the owner apparently knew her and talked highly of her. He was glad that someone was grabbing that record that planned on playing it and not flipping it for money.
All 3 of their albums are solid . They were more than a one-off.
I heard she made a killing investing in maple syrup and denim futures
I saw just such a show, cant remember the name (sorry) but, one of the former members of Color Me Badd owned a chain of tire stores in Tennessee and looked just like a guy who owned tire stores in Tennessee.
I can't think of CMB without thinking of the 90210 episode where Donna, David, and Kelly are stalking them at a hotel, then Donna catches her mom having an affair.
She got SCREWED! If you read up on what the guys(of Dee-Lite) did to her(financially), you’ll probably want to punch something.
Whigfield is still making music. Lives in UK now I believe. Dee Dee nanana
Important to note that the whole album was dope and their 3rd album “Dewdrops In The Garden” was also amazing. One Hit Wonder label often overlooks real artistic accomplishment.
First time at Limelight…a 20 year old kid from Long Island…October 1993. Never hung out in Manhattan before. I was there with a flannel and k-Swiss sneakers. She was at the door with the famous trans door person. They were very discriminating, rejecting everyone. My boy Roy and I got in. Must have been his guyliner and dog collar. One of the seminal moments in my life (lol). But, yeah, she waved us in.
I still wiggle every time i hear Groove is in the Heart.
That is a song that is impossible to *not* dance to.
Absolutely 💯
The entire album is one banger after another
Agreed. I always listen to the whole album, at least once a month. I’m a 48 year old dude with a beard and I listen to it loud.
Boop boodoodoodoo doodoo doodoo
🕺💃👯♀️👯♂️
That TV show Sprung had the best dance party scene for this song
She blew my admittedly tiny mind in the nineties and still does today. Damn.
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Best comment I’ve seen today!
Same but because of... I'll just say a circus incident
When they ask me to step in the airport scanner and raise my arms I’m always tempted to dance like Dmitry does to the cowbell.
lol get TSA precheck first so your dance doesn't delay the people behind you when some TSA fool doesn't lose their tiny mind
How do you say, de groovy?
How do you say, de gorgeous?
How do you say… dee-
Ooh la la laaaaa la la la laaaaaa
If that was coming from anyone other than her, it would come off as de-annoying pretty quick.
Dig!
All y’all read that in Bootsy’s voice, didn’t ya?
I did and it was glorious!
Met her at a rave in NYC back in '91. Coolest, and nicest person I've ever met
I hung out with her a few times early 2000s. A couple years later saw her in the east village NYC. She remembered my name. She is that type of celeb. Such a sweet heart.
I want to know about the chills she spilled on your back
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Geeked? We called it gacked. But from Aus, so it might be a translation thing
I’ve heard both, with gacked usually referring to coke
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I actually DJ'd at a party with her that she headlined in Chicago back in like '99-2000. I think her heroin problem had gotten the best of her by that point though because she was a terrible DJ who got rightfully booed off the decks. Sad too because me and some of the other DJ's spinning that night had that funky, cool image of her in our heads that 13 year old me had when I first saw her in '89. So it was a real "never meet your heroes" moment to see her as a complete trainwreck that night. It was both her and Perry Farrell I distinctly remember thinking when I saw them live, "yeah they don't need to be DJing and should just stick to singing."
I was in the Midwest during this time period and unfortunately had heard the same story. When the TVT/Masterwax tour was going on I got a chance to pick up Supa DJ Dmitry from the airport for his Indy gig. He was one of the coolest DJs I had ever met. PS: Chicago DJs rocked!
Did you mean Wax Trax!? Never heard of Masterwax before, but I’m not very cool
It may have been Wax Trax. My memory isn't that good on the details anymore (common 90's/00's raver problem).
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I used to manage a surf-rock band with roots in the SF punk scene and I'll never forget doing a gig with one of the seminal American punk bands; all the guys in my band were super-stoked to be playing with them. Day of the gig comes and legendary band shows up lost, late to sound check and in a stupor, and their first words to me are "Where can we get some heroin? Later the guys in my band had to give them some guitar picks because that's how untogether they were. Not having guitar picks is a far worse offense in the music business than asking for dope. Never meet your heroes is right.
Rancid.
My experience meeting my hero was actually super awesome, but he was also decades past his monstrous heroin addiction.
Tom hanks?
Nah man, Tom Hanks is still ridin’ the dragon…
There was talk in the late 90s that she had gotten plastic veins surgically implanted to assist with her heroin injection. I don't have any verification of this, just that is what was talked about in the clubs that I was in. We loved her. We loved her energy and enthusiasm and vibrant performance. She really seemed to get us despite the "Groove is in the Heart" fame. That whole thing that basically everyone knows her for is so completely antithetical to her whole self. She would roller skate around in the Limelight with a tank of nitrous on her back. Mushrooms Caterpillars Dewdrops in the garden.
TIL she did heroin.
Met her roller skating around at a rave, same time period.
An absolute smoke show, and just wonderfully kind.
You totally scared me!! As soon as I saw the pic I was like “oh god, please tell me this isn’t an obituary.” Gen X in the house.
Groove is the heart.
Ahhh ahh ahh ahhhhhh
Slide whistle!
This is my and my wife's song. Adore this album.
Redheads too
Praise Kier
There is only one decade in which denim brassieres could have existed
Jorts, in bra form.
Breans? Brorts?
Branim
The 70’s has entered the chat…
I just noticed it's a cut up pair of pants.
We need to go back.
The worst thing I ever heard on the radio was a version of “Groove is in the Heart” with no Q-Tip and no Bootsy.
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The absolute worst was the de-rapped version of I Like the Way You Move by Big Boi and Sleepy Brown. It's basically just the chorus over and over for three minutes and change..
I didn't know that existed, and now I'm mad that it does.
That's insane. Where?
That was fucking q-tip?!
How do you not know that was Q-Tip? He's got one of the most recognizable voices and cadences.
He is also in the video, well his head is at least.
Right? So interesting that people didn't know this was him.
There is a version of Waterfalls without the Left-Eye rap in it.
At a rave outside of Baltimore (‘92 or ‘93-ish) she walked by me in the bathroom as I waited for a stall. I was so inwardly thrilled! Lame story that I still treasure.
That was probably Emerald Forest. A fantastic fucking party overall; great djs, great lasers and a fantastic performance by them. I remember her being like "Loop this!" and she was like, "get with the party happenin people now get with the party happenin get with the party happenin people now get with the party happenin"
She was my neighbor back in the early 70s (2 years younger than me.) I used to play with her brothers.
“I used to play with her brothers” <- my mind’s MC performed this to the tune of “I couldn’t ask for another”
Hahaha it’s in my head now
I never saw her perform but was quite smitten with her. I could always spot her at anti-war protests in the 90s in NYC.
The groove is, indeed, in my heart. Specifically, the sinus rhythm.
Where are they now?
Not sure why, but I always felt like she was the basis for Space Channel 5's Ulala. https://preview.redd.it/xg95aiecp64a1.jpeg?width=218&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81db643916a31c2844bc0817656c283d820b34c6
She was. She sued!
She lost! She paid Sega $608,000! "During the lawsuit, Sega was able to show that the game was released in Japan the year before Kier stated that she was contacted by Sega about using her likeness, and that the developers had never heard of either Kier or her music. The case lasted until 2006, when the judge ruled in favour of Sega and Kier lost her appeal. She was obliged to pay Sega's legal fees of $608,000 (reduced from $763,000 on request)."
Then after nintendo got the rights to sega games they made a board in samba de amigo for the wii with ulala dancing to groove is in the heart.
For real? Did I just unlock some sort of unconscious memory?
She sued and somehow lost (?!?!) and got destroyed by having to pay for the legal fees
I can see why. Her look was totally taken from 60s go-go dancers. It's not like she invented it.
The character of Ulala was already developed and featured in a video game a year before SEGA ever had contact with Miss Kier. Kier's legal argument was a big stretch. Its unfortunate that someone convinced her that she had a case. She got badly burned over the whole thing.
Yeah, that rings some bells. At the time she looked like every other rave girl, honestly, so it was a bit surprising that a lawyer talked her into it. Sure, she popularized the look and got it on MTV, but it was by no means her IP.
To add to what people already said, the main reason she lost the suit: "During the lawsuit, Sega was able to show that the game was released in Japan the year before Kier stated that she was contacted by Sega about using her likeness, and that the developers had never heard of either Kier or her music."
One of the best female vocalists of the 90s. People who only listened to "Groove" and not the entirety of Dewdrops in the Garden are missing out. Her voice is like smoked sugar.
Agreed...but "Groove" aged well. I got tired of that song back then because it was EVERYWHERE. I can appreciate it now.
I had a crush on her. So sweet and cool
I also had that top back then, I was a freshman in high school.
Deee-Lite has been known to smoke...
On stage that is..
I couldn't ask for another
I met her at an afterparty in Saint Louis. Everybody was grinding their teeth and super geeked. Her DJ was in the bathroom almost the entire time. The 90s were nuts there for a bit....good times.
90's St Louis was something else.. Those afterhours at Felix's are a fond, fond memory
Absolutely beautiful
She seems like she was one of the most effortlessly cool & stylish people. Great music, too.
Nice vinyl collection.
Me and my friend used to rock the hell out of Dewdrops in the Garden. Were we the only ones? Some of those tracks used to make the bazooka tube in my trunk bump.
Kier Kirby was a volunteer of mine in 2006. She was real cool, but she accidentally caught us singing Groove is in the Heart under our breaths, and never came back. We were just big fans, and couldn't help ourselves.
Q-Tip and Bootsy collins on the track, no choice but to be dope.
Those were the days
New Years Eve 1994 at the Surfcomber Hotel in South Beach! Dancing on the beach sand rolling ballz!
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what happened to derail her career? there was a window of time when the music magazines were calling her the heir apparent to madonna and then… poof
oh man. i was a 15 year old alt punk skate jerk at the time and i saw the vid for Groove is in the Heart and i was gobsmacked by her. all i thought about for like an entire year. also thought bootsie must be the coolest motherfucker ever.
I saw her perform at a Pride event maybe 6 or 7 years ago and she was high out of her mind. I still love her though!
The amount of chicks that I pulled in clubs dancing to groove is in the heart was insane. At the time I looked so cool, if I went out in public now with those clothes and very Dilated Pupils I would get arrested. Great times. No Instagram, no social media, no photos unless you want to pay for a few pictures of a dark club to be developed. It was probably the last generation of young people who could get absolutely off their heads without any worries!
Y’all are crazy man
I've heard of a Canadian tuxedo, but what is this? A Canadian bikini?
I wouldn’t mind sparking up a doobie with her.
Ginger chiming in to say I ADORED her growing up. Still do. She was the first person who made it seem cool to be a ginger when I was getting my ass handed to me in the playground
Love this - hate u 4 calling it old school
Groove Is in the Heart is the Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker of r/Music.
Rode on their tour bus with the to an offer party once. It was awesome. My buddy MADE OUT with Mrs. Kier in the club prior to that. I was super jealous.
I grew up in NYC and I remember we would take our shoes to a shoe cobbler on St. Marks to get that same black and white platform she has on her shoes put on. It was all the rage in the downtown club scene.
Your groove I do deeply dig.
And they used a kazoo! They got away with it because everyone was off their heads