Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walking through campus, chewing on mints, we anxiously eyed the horizon, fighting off fears that it was an enormous hoax, that we were about to be trapped, mobbed and burned by ferocious hordes of Smith women too long victimized by male invaders. "No!" we would scream, as they tied us to the stake, "No! We're not marauders. We are but simple voyagers to the innocent days of fourth grade past. Avast, ye scurvy broads, we bring not lechery and disease, but valentines and tootsie-roll pops." Well, maybe we wouldn't say that, but it was a hell...
Ironically, also like Janet Jackson's Control, it's not the seemingly aggressive female vocalist who's in charge, but a talented team of male cohorts, in this case Full Force, a group of five guys in tight spandex pants, shirts open to their waists, whose gold necklaces melted together could anchor a small boat. Their influence can be felt in all areas of the record. They are credited with production, writing, even the mixing and managing of Lisa Lisa...
...Face In the Crowd" and "Playing With Fire" are Lisa Lisa's tough turns on vocals. In the former, replete with some nasty conversational repartee in the vein of Jackson's "What Have You Done For Me Lately," Lisa Lisa plays a fan attracted to a male singer. The latter, the album's best and most aggressive track, is heavily layered with keyboards and Spanador's (of the Cult Jam) vibrant guitar solo. "I'm not your everyday average woman," Lisa Lisa sings. She tells us she will not be the victim of any relationship, because when you mess with...
Pescosolido is fine as the neurotically over-sensitive Hannah, and does the best she can with weak lines. McCabe, her male counterpart, never completely convinces in the role of a 40-year-old, and delivers his lines with a bit too much sincerity and not enough humor...
...That was a problem for him," she says. "He has a typical male...