“Only In My Dreams” (1987) is Debbie Gibson’s best song

I liked her too. Remember when she tried to move into Broadway later?

She had other songs?

R2 yup. A handful of hits

I still have my Electric Youth perfume! It was all the rage back in the day!

Shake your love, Lost in your eyes. Electric Youth, Out of the Blue, Foolish Beat - she had lots of hits including #1s. But she sort of peaked after three albums.

I always preferred her debut album to her sophomore one

This is my favorite of hers as well, OP.

My top 9 Debbie songs:

1. No More Rhyme

2. Anything Is Possible (PWL Remix)

3. Lost In Your Eyes

4. Out Of The Blue

5. Electric Youth

6. Foolish Beat

7. Shake Your Love

8. Only In My Dreams

9. We Could Be Together

R5 that happens to most teen pop idols. Their shelf lives are usually short lived. Some are able to transition well with the industry’s always changing sounds and to a more mature sound with age but most fall off.

OP, I went CRAZY for this song when it first came out. I bought the cassette and wore it out. I think I was in 8th grade. It is a perfect pop song. So, so catchy, and so nimbly captures middle-school puppy love angst.

Her 1995 album “Think With Your Heart” was supposed to be her big comeback, with a more mature sound to cater to the once kids and teens who loved her when she was a teen, who were now older like herself. Sadly it crashed and burned a deadly death. Most people don’t even know that album exists, that’s how bad it did. Sadly too, as I thought it was good.

My mother was one of the handful of people who actually bought it and would play it all the time.

I loved “Didn’t Have The Time”.

No to Deb. Just a big fat no. Not even for camp. Even back then she was teen crap for the vanilla crowd.

I'll take Debbie Gibson over Cardi B any day. I miss when music was wholesome. Glorifying strippers, drug dealers and gang members is not what I thought we were all moving towards as an evolving culture.

Devo was right.

[quote][R5] that happens to most teen pop idols. Their shelf lives are usually short lived. Some are able to transition well with the industry’s always changing sounds and to a more mature sound with age but most fall off.

PADAM PADAM

Wikipedia just reminded me she did Playboy.

Olivia Newton John and Chrissie Evert had a baby and her name was Deborah

I miss the days of more wholesome pop too actually. American music is tripping over itself in its rush to amp up the vulgarity. I’m over it.

When it comes to Debbie’s stuff, i never liked her voice that much. I liked her personality, I liked a few of her songs, but overall she was very meh to me.

Deb wrote possibly the dumbest lyric in the history of popular music (and that's no mean feat): "I just fell, don't kno why" from Lost in Your Eyes. Uh, perhaps you should get an MRI, Deb.

R18 The ‘fall’ is a metaphor, dear.

Fell doesn't work as a metaphor if its not followed by a preposition. It just sounds like you have a neuromuscular condition.

I get down 'tween your thighs

And I feel your penis rise

And brush against my chin

Is it love that I am in?

I am down on my knees

May I suck your penis, please?

And I am a ho

'Cause it's this dick I can't let go

R18 maybe the song has been about a woman the suffering from a neurogenerative disorder all along Gigi ever think about that? I mean the other lyrics talk about muscle weakness and confusion so clearly that's what she was getting at.

“Lost In Your Eyes” 2023 version, r21.

Debbie and Tiffany were both great. Both had some great songs, but between the two, Tiff had the voice. Girl could SANG. Her mature, throaty vocals made Deb's girlish warbling pale by comparison.

Meh. I always liked Deb more.

Taylor Swift is today's Debbie Gibson - completely saccharine and no soul.

Taylor is too big a star to be compared to anyone from the 80s. Taylor’s career imitates Madonna in size of stardom if we are comparing her to an 80s pop icon.

Or, of course, MJ. But I was speaking in terms of female pop stars.

OP is correct. It’s the only DG song I have in my music library. It a perfect pop song.

I had a friend who loved to sing the lyrics to Shake Your Love to

🎶 Fuck that butt, I just can’t fuck..THAT BUTT! 🎶

[quote]Taylor is too big a star to be compared to anyone from the 80s.

I don't think that was a comparison of the size of her career. In terms of talent and presentation, Taylor is totally today's version of milquetoast Debbie.

Fallen Angel and Out of the Blue were two other standouts from her first album. The former has exquisite backing vocals and harmonies.

Tiff was def the superior singer.

R17 God you’d be awful to know. Too vulgar? You miss the wholesome? Jesus. There’s nothing good about you.

R32 no one cares. Deb had the bigger hits and two big albums. Bigger voice doesn’t equal better all around.

Loved that song

R17 That’s why Taylor Swift is so popular, she’s really the only pop singer that’s wholesome.

She attempted being edgy with the “Reputation” album and it didn’t work so she ran right back to vanilla.

In what world in TS still wholesome? Her Midnights album is all about sex, including lavender sex which means queer sex.

Taylor Swift literally cast a trans man as her love interest and made a song with rapper Ice Spice. “Wholesome”.

r38 Sh "literally" did, huh?

Despite all of Taylor's attempts at being "edgy," she just doesn't have edge in her. She's completely vanilla, and it makes her attempts at edge come across as forced.

[quote][R32] no one cares. Deb had the bigger hits and two big albums.

You do, obviously. Tiff's first album was a Billboard 200 #1 and 3 of the singles were Hot 100 top 10s with 2 of them going to #1. Deb's only #1 from her first album was Foolish Beat, and the album peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200.

Gerg! Gergie-gergo-Gerg… gergie-gergie-gerrrrrrg, gergo-gergie-Gerg!

[quote][R17] That’s why Taylor Swift is so popular, she’s really the only pop singer that’s wholesome. She attempted being edgy with the “Reputation” album and it didn’t work so she ran right back to vanilla.

You mean wholesome on Cruel Summer where she sings about being drunk in the back of a car? Or No Body No Crime where she kills a man she suspects of killing her friend's husband and framing the mistress? Or of course Blank Space where she plays up to the media role of a tragic man hungry crazy woman.

Taylor Swift isn't a natural dancer but she's a singer songwriter musician who is so far ahead of her peers it's unfair.

R43 exactly. She was once wholesome but she hasn’t sang songs that were wholesome in years. Not being able to dance has nothing to do with wholesomeness.

I have to admit that the Bad Blood video and song made me think less of her. So much so I deleted it from 1989 on my phone.

It felt like mean girl bullying. But she made amends to Katy on You Need To Calm Down.

I like that she gave a shout out to Janet in "Snow on the Beach."

Terrible, shitty, awful song from a terrible, shitty, unoriginal singer.

[quote]R17] God you’d be awful to know. Too vulgar? You miss the wholesome? Jesus. There’s nothing good about you.

I’m crushed you would say that Anonymous.

Didn't Tiffany also flash beav, though she might have done it in a more downmarket rag like Muff Parade

Tiff and Deb did Playboy.

Debbie and Tiffany fall down like toy soldiers

Nobody asked you Martika.

A few people here are VERY passionate about this light topic

Tiffany had the better voice... on record. I have seen old vids of her singing live during her biggest years in the late 80s, though, and it was a different story. Really bad. But I agree, Debbie's voice wasn't remarkable, nor was her presentation. She was sort of similar to Kylie Minogue in the early years, but Kylie had a certain something more and, when she broke out of the confines of her original, teeny-bopper image, people accepted it, whereas Debbie sort of disappeared after trying the same.

Kylie barely had a career in the states. Outside of a handful of songs.

Debbie was all sweetness and light. She never had a song like Tiffany's "Spanish Eyes," which lyrically describes a young girl losing her virginity to her leather-wearing Latino boyfriend.

R56 she was alright

Sorry but “Shake Your Love” was her best. I still listen to is all the time!

[quote] I have to admit that the Bad Blood video and song made me think less of her. So much so I deleted it from 1989 on my phone.

Really? I thought the video was a lot of fun. Was it because Katy wasn’t included in it?

r58 You're "sorry?" How odd.

Tiffany’s music wasn’t as good, honestly.

Tiff was the better vocalist. “Danny” from her first album is superior to anything on Deb’s first.

R62 nah. Better vocalist doesn’t equal better overall. Also her vocals were good in a studio. Never very good live. At least Debbie sounded the same live.

she was uniformly terrible and had NO best song

Feelings of Forever, also from her first album, bested anything from Deb’s debut.

I’m neutral about Debbie’s music.

I’m intrigued about her sexual orientation, though.

She has always pinged.

Didn’t Debbie date Freddie Jackson at one time?

I’ll always respect Debbie Gibson for writing songs, composing music and her sense for music production.

R13 would probably rather glorify a guy who laughs about grabbing women by the pussy

Are you all in therapy? If not, you ALL should be!

I love Deb. Always have.

R1, she did quite well in theater and on Broadway.

I don't see Tiffany doing bumpers for rewind TV like Debbie does so yeah.

Debbie and Belinda did some tv show together this week

She was such a fun popstar when she came out. Loved her! Tiffany sucked.

Tiffany was just boring.

Oh man, this takes me back. Thank you OP

Tiffany was really tacky. I mean even for the 80’s she was tacky.

Debbie is sort of overdue for a comeback. I mean, look at NKOTB, for fucks sake. Those talentless dorks had that huge tour recently. I think Debbie's challenge is she doesn't seem to let others write and produce her and, for me, she has an annoying vocal thing she does and needs to stop. It seems all her songs feature, in either the main vocal or the backing, this ear-piercing high note, where she'll sing a line in this grating high pitch and it sounds nasal and I just want to smack her til she's unconscious. But, other than that, her music can be delightful.

This came out last year and started getting airplay this summer for some reason but then faded.