#63/1230
February 1986
Animotion
Strange Behavior
Genre: SynthPop
1.75 out of 5
Highlights:
I Want You
Am I off base? Is there a song about statutory rape (or preference for) on this record? Tell me if I’ve read this wrong. (Lyrics at the bottom)
If not for this project I would never have known that one my favorite 70s songwriters/producers, Mike Chapman, one of the best female songwriters, Holly Knight and Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin had collaborated on…well…anything. I have no idea how this collaboration happened but the result, “I Engineer” is unworthy of any of their respective talents. Really trite claptrap. It’s maybe a 2 star song but points must be subtracted for the pedigree that soiled themselves on this 4th rate-4 years too late piece of garbage.
With a track like “Anxiety” it’s pretty much assured that, had they stuck around, I’m pretty sure Animotion would have gotten to all the neurological disorders. It was only a matter of longevity that would get them to a song called, “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”.
In 1986 Animotion is still pimping out a sound that was so quickly delivered to redundancy that almost all of the purveyors like Soft Cell had called it quits way before. Someone should have gotten them a memo.
Points way off for the lyrical content of “The Essence”:
Every man has a hunger
It can overcome the strongest will
Especially if the woman is younger
And she has a tender dream to fill
Youth and beauty have a magic charm
And it's so hard to leave her alone
But like the blazing fire in Medusa's eyes
She can turn a man into stone
Reaching for the essence in a younger woman's heart
Knowing adolescence is the finest form of art
Back in the days of cavemen
Women learned how to capture power
By taking back what they often gave men
The sweet nectar of a passion flower
The powerful prince that owned your lands
Could determine if you live or die
But he'd get down upon his knees and hands
If the princess would only fly
Reaching for the essence in a younger woman's heart
Knowing adolescence is the finest form of art
Reaching for the essence in a younger woman's heart
Glowing with fluorescence she's a neon candle in the dark
Youth and beauty have a magic charm
And it's so hard to leave her alone
But like the blazing fire in Medusa's eyes
She can turn a man into stone
Reaching for the essence in a younger woman's heart
Knowing adolescence is the finest form of art
Reaching for the essence in a younger woman's heart
Glowing with fluorescence she's a neon candle in the dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_nj8WzkDA&list=PLGPGfyGlEcoa3ZSN2g3EWd26X9-QhlvxY
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