Remarks:
In 1984 this went to #2 on the US R&B, US dance and the UK pop charts, and #5 on the US pop chart. It was their biggest hit ever in the UK. And this week in 2020 it was the #1 song ringing in my head. I am pretty sure that is a side effect of limiting my news intake to Trump’s tweets. Not because he tweeted it (he didn’t), but because when I limit my media intake old songs ring in my head.
See also:
- songs: the 1980s
- Programming note #42
- Bonnie Pointer: I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
- some other songs that have rung in my head:
- 2019: Henry Mancini: Moon River
- 2018:
- 2017:
- 2016:
- 2015: Louis York: Clair Huxtable
- 2013: Chrisette Michele: A Couple Of Forevers
- 2012: Neneh Cherry: Buffalo Stance
- 2011: The Human League: (Keep Feeling) Fascination
- 2007: Ringing in my head
Lyrics:
Look what you’re doing to me
I’m utterly at your whim
All of my defenses down
Your camera looks through me
With its X-ray vision
And all systems run aground
All I can manage to push from my lips
Is a stream of absurdities
Every word I intended to speak
Winds up locked in the circuitry
No way to control it
It’s totally automatic
Whenever you’re around
I’m walking blindfolded
Completely automatic
All of my systems are down
Down, down, down
Automatic (automatic)
Automatic (automatic)
What is this madness
That makes my motor run
And my legs too weak to stand
I go from sadness
To exhilaration
Like a robot at your command
My hands perspire and shake like a leaf
Up and down goes my temperature
I summon doctors to get some relief
But they tell me there is no cure
They tell me
No way to control it
It’s totally automatic
Whenever you’re around
I’m walking blindfolded
Completely automatic
All of my systems are down
Down, down, down
Automatic (automatic)
Automatic (automatic)
Automatic
Automatic
Automatic
Automatic
Look what you’re doing to me
I’m utterly at your whim
All of my defenses down
Your camera looks through me
With its X-ray vision
And all systems run aground
All I can manage to push from my lips
Is a stream of absurdities
Every word I intended to speak
Winds up locked in the circuitry
No way to control it
It’s totally automatic
Whenever you’re around
I’m walking blindfolded
Completely automatic
All of my systems are down
Down, down
No way to control it
It’s totally automatic
Whenever you’re around
I’m walking blindfolded
Completely automatic
All of my systems are down
Down, down, down
No way to control it
It’s totally automatic
Whenever you’re around
I’m walking blindfolded
Completely automatic
All of my systems are down
Source: SongFacts.
This brings back memories. I was just a child when i saw this music video on TV. I was 8 years old when this song was released in march 5th 1981 ^_^
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I knew this was The Pointer Sisters but I genuinely thought that was a guy singing lead. My first time seeing the video
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