In the Flesh (1976)įrom the opening, Shangri Las-inspired monologue to the production credit for Richard Gottehrer – writer of the Angels’ My Boyfriend’s Back – Blondie’s eponymous debut album was 60s girl-group obsessed In the Flesh is a perfect update of a girl group in dreamy doo-wop-influenced ballad mode. Bond’s producers rejected it in favour of a Sheena Easton ballad, which was pretty much the final insult. But there’s one exception, a would-be Bond theme with a killer chorus. The final original Blondie album, The Hunter, is leaden, miserable listening, with glossy production that can’t hide uninspired songs. The chugging guitar has an air of the Velvet Underground – whom Harry and Stein saw live – while the super-bitchy vocal captures the backbiting, vicious atmosphere of Max’s Kansas City, where Harry worked as a waitress. Rip Her to Shreds (1976)Ĭamp, nasty fun that seems to speak of Blondie’s New York roots. It’s a song you can imagine being swathed in reverb by Phil Spector circa 1965 and powered by Be My Baby drums. The wistful, synth-heavy, slow-motion Shayla makes Blondie’s debt to 60s girl groups explicit once more. The exception that proves the rule about the quality of Eat to the Beat’s non-single tracks. It sounds like nothing else Blondie have recorded. Its episodic seven-minute closer – a cover of a song by a Canadian YouTube influencer, would you believe – is stately, weary and angry. Since reforming in 1999, Blondie’s albums have been of decidedly mixed quality, but their most recent, Pollinator, is easily the best. Extra points for the video, which involves Darth Vader, a flooded apartment and a dancer unaccountably dressed as Pan – it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It was certified Platinum in Australia and Canada, in Italy and New Zealand it was certified Gold.Īrtist’s age on Release Date: The band was active for 4 years when they released this song.Ĭover Versions: Before You Exit – Cimorelli – MattyBRaps – Landon Austin – Robbie Jay – Josh Levi – other amateur Youtubers covered this song.When it came to picking cover versions, you couldn’t fault Chris Stein and Debbie Harry’s taste, hence this slickly appealing take on the Paragons’ John Holt-penned 1967 single. The song topped the charts in Denmark and Greece, reached number 2 in Scotland and was within the top 10 charts in Australia, Czech Republic, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa and Spain.
In the UK, it peaked at number 13 on the Official Charts company and was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it Gold for sales over 500,000 copies.
Songwriter/s: Wayne Hector – John Ryan – Ed Drewett – Julian Bunetta – Louis Tominson – Liam PayneĬhart Rankings: In the US, the song reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number 17 on the Mainstream Top 40 charts. Sometimes there’s only so many things you can do with a piano at that tempo.” At the end of the day, the lyric and the melody have nothing to do with any other song that I have ever heard. And that also speaks to the fan base, I think, ’cause of other groups trying to steal the 1D fan base there are a lot of layers.” He continued talking about the resemblance of the piano at the beginning of ‘Steal my girl’ and the 2006 ‘It’s Not Your Fault’ by New Found Glory and the 1983 single ‘Faithfully’ by Journey, he said: “When we sat down and played the piano lick, nobody had any references in their head about what they wanted to write or anything and then I saw all the things about that Journey song. If you have something great, everyone is going to try and take it from you. But it was more of a joyous thing, it just speaks to how happy you are with this person. Somebody said that line and it was like, ‘Woah, yeah I relate to that,’ and we all looked around and was like, ‘Yeah, I like that, I can totally relate to that.'” In another interview with MTV News, Bunetta revealed that there were actually several girls that inspired the track, he said: “It’s based on everybody’s experience, you have six guys in a room that have all been in love before and we all have jealousy some are better at hiding it than others, but we don’t like when people hit on our girlfriends. Co-writer Julian Bunetta explained in an interview that the idea behind this song happened randomly, he said: “I think, if I recall correctly, we were playing a drum beat and it just sort of came out. They’ve grown up together since they were teenagers, probably why he has the get-go from her parents. This piano ballad is like a love story, the person saying that everyone is going to “steal his girl” ends up the only one to actually get the girl.
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