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[sholio]

Here's something kinda cool: Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now", in a new 2019 remake by the original artist.

"Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now - 2019" (Watch on YouTube)

Compare to the original 1987 video:

"Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now" (Watch on YouTube)

ETA: Holy shit, she was only 15/16 when the original song/album were recorded in 1987. I had no idea. This makes me even happier that she didn't end up like a lot of kid stars do; she seems to be happy and making music right up to the present day.

Comments

[heavenscalyx]

IIRC at the time, she was very young AND she got herself emancipated to keep her money away from her terrible parents. People always ran down the 87 version of the song, but I kind of loved it, in part because of the things I heard and read about her.

[heavenscalyx]

Lordt, that 80s video is so VERY 80s. And it must've come out during the school year (when I wasn't at home from college, watching Friday Night Videos), because I've never seen it before. MALL TOUR. Jesus Harriet, of COURSE a mall tour.

Alas, I see from Wikipedia that her attempt to have herself emancipated failed, but at least she got a guardian (her grandmother) who sided with her.

ETA: And OMG the 2019 video, with all the callbacks. (The denim jacket -- when my wife gave a keynote speech at Lavender Graduation at one of the universities where she teaches, she was giving it from the perspective of her late-80s/early-90s self, and insisted on borrowing my denim jacket; somehow, I'd forgotten how ubiquitous they were.) She also reminds me somewhat of Taylor Dayne.

[senmut]

Funny, because I was listening to Taylor Dayne and Tiffany almost constantly back then; I had both of their first two albums on cassette and wore them out.

Thanks for sharing these. I'd heard the remake on Spotify but didn't know about the video.

[trobadora]

Wow, that's fascinating!

[madripoor_rose]

Very cool!

[edenfalling]

I am delighted by how non-sexualized the 1987 video is, particularly since the song is about two teenagers sneaking away to make out in private. I mean, it is painfully late 80s, but that part is genuinely refreshing!

(And despite the shots of feet in high-heel shoes, the 2019 remake is also mostly non-sexualized, which, again, is very refreshing. :D )

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Cool! I will now always associate this song with Umbrella Academy.

[sholio]

Same. :D

[neonhummingbird]

Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were SO important to me in the late 80's. They were only a few years older than I was, and man, their music spoke to 14, 15, 16-year-old me. I love this video, and I also love that both of them survived in one piece.

I have that album Tiffany signs in the new video. I would dearly love to ask her to sign it today.

[umadoshi]

This is really awesome. ^_^