Bananarama on Taylor Swift’s 'Cruel Summer,' four decades and being women in the music business.
, “thinking that I probably wouldn’t be doing when I was 25. It seemed so far away. I couldn’t imagine.”Fast forward four decades to now. Not only is the British group still active, but they are
“I haven’t heard it, I’m afraid,” Dallin says of Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” to which Woodward drily intones, “I would have preferred her recording mine, because then I could have made some of her money.” Of their own “Cruel Summer,” Woodward recalls the “massive, welcome shock” of learning it reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1984. “Knowing that we’d cracked the top 10 in theFor up-and-coming women in the music industry, the duo has some specific, sage advice.
But Bananarama has spun gold out of staying strong in the face of adversity. A perfect example is the band’s 1986 Hot 100 No. 1, a pounding dance cover of Shocking Blue’s “Venus.” “We’d heard a song with a Hi-NRG beat and we’d just found Stock Aitken and Waterman, the producers, and we asked them to do a Hi-NRG version of ‘Venus,’” Dallin recalls of the recording’s genesis. “Nobody wanted to do , not the record company or Stock Aitken and Waterman.
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