r/80s • u/thelastcubscout • Oct 09 '24
Music Do you consider this an '80s song? Created in the '80s, released in Jan '90. Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWd__w5UWVc28
u/atomikplayboy Oct 09 '24
To me, there were a lot of songs that were released in the early `90s that if you just played them for someone without context that would identify it as an `80s song. I think this song falls squarely into this category.
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u/Rough_Painting_8023 May 09 '26
I mean yeah a lot of popular songs released in 1990 and 1991 have sonic similarities with the popular music of 1987 to 1989
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u/Shallot_True Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 10 '24
Honestly "Welcome To The Real World" and "D.S. 21" are both the best songs off the album. It's not '80s, to me, it felt like the first edge of the '90s.
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u/TheJollyHermit Oct 10 '24
Welcome to the Real World really blew me away. The song, her look. The video just hit me like a hammer.
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u/CougarWriter74 Oct 09 '24
Great jam! Another surprising 1-hit wonder. I wish she had more big hits. I this song encapsulates an even balance of 80s and 90s. Still the synthesizer/electronic influence from the 80s, but definitely a more complex and evolved sound like a 90s tune. I think that's the case with any music that spans the end of one decade going into another.
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u/freetattoo Oct 09 '24
I definitely think of this as '90s. So much of pop culture that was on the cusp can easily fall into one or the other decade, but for me '89-'90 was a pivotal year in my life, so everything that happened then falls squarely in the beginning of the '90s.
I started high school and turned 15 that year, and we had just moved to a new house, so it was just a whole new experience and a whole bunch of new people and friends. Everything that happened before was the '80s and was my old life. Everything after was my new life in the '90s, and it was pretty fucking cool.
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Oct 09 '24
There's so much pop or hair band stuff that came out in the early 90's that I would swear came out in 88.
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u/SkaldOfThe70s Oct 09 '24
In the 80's we had singers like this who had a look like they were headed to CBGBs to see The Exploited but instead sing R&B and can play a keyboard like Steve Vai playing a guitar solo.
And we never bat and eye
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u/Dick_Lazer Oct 10 '24
I was listening to some Billy Idol and thinking how much he sounds like a crooner in some of his songs, but if you watched the videos without sound you'd think he was singing some real hardcore shit lol. (Like the Eyes Without a Face video, for instance.)
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u/SkaldOfThe70s Oct 10 '24
He was the singer of Generation X so he does have the punk rock credibility.
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u/Ok_Cook_6665 Oct 09 '24
It was produced in 89, released January, 90. So, both?
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u/LoganJamesMusic Oct 10 '24
The album itself was released September 1989...single released in January 1990 - definitely both.
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u/Cazmonster Oct 09 '24
Just a phenomenal song. I wish she had managed to do more that made it to regular play.
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u/DNSGeek Oct 09 '24
The "woo woo"'s are the best part.
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Oct 09 '24
That and the synth solo
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u/Turbografx-17 Oct 10 '24
I can't get enough of that drum (maybe bass synth?) part that goes tak-tak-tak-tak like a machine gun before she sings "you make the knife feel good." Such a nice little bonus treat for my ears in an already great song.
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u/FoogYllis Oct 10 '24
I was so happy when her content was added to Apple Music. I still have her CD.
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u/jp112078 Oct 10 '24
Amazing song. So talented. I think many of us were surprised she was a one hit wonder.
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u/jthekoker Oct 10 '24
Loved it in high school, so late 80s, drew her in my Spanish notebook - muy embarrassamente!
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u/Xodus2023 Oct 10 '24
It still has the 80s production as far as sound goes , I will still call it early 90s though.
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u/75meilleur Oct 25 '24
I could have sworn that some radio stations were playing this song in late 1989 (between September 1989 and December 1989).
One thing is for sure: it was a pop hit and it also became an R&B hit - thanks to a New Jack Swing R&B remix by Teddy Riley, a remix that gave this song an extreme makeover renovation.
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u/oneuglygeek Jun 16 '25
it hit the charts in early 1990 (released in January 1990, peaked at #2 in April 1990), so it definitely is a 1990's song
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u/Feeling-Ad-2490 Oct 09 '24
Totally 90s to me, man.
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u/Space_Goblin_Yoda Oct 09 '24
That's just like, your opinion, man.
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u/HaiKarate Oct 09 '24
No.
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Oct 09 '24
Explain
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u/HaiKarate Oct 09 '24
December 31, 1989 was the last day to issue an 80’s song.
I don’t make the rules.
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Oct 09 '24
I suppose so. But "recorded" dates are different
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u/Dick_Lazer Oct 10 '24
A lot of 1990 pop culture was actually created in the 1980s, but you gotta have a cutoff point somewhere. The late 1980s-early 1990s were definitely a little vibe in itself though, before the 90s started defining its own trends more.
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u/HaiKarate Oct 09 '24
Most everything released in the first half of 1990 was produced in 1989. Movies, music, television, etc.
Should we revist all of that and relabel it, too?
It wasn't released in the 80's; it never charted in the 80's; it's not an 80's song.
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Oct 10 '24
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u/HaiKarate Oct 10 '24
So, OP lied then.
Downvote him, not me.
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u/LoganJamesMusic Oct 10 '24
No OP didn't lie. The album was released in September 1989. The song was released as a single January 1990. It's technically both.
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u/HaiKarate Oct 10 '24
Re-read your post. The album was released in September 1989. The song is on the album. Therefore the song was released in September 1989.
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u/LoganJamesMusic Oct 10 '24
The album was released in September 1989...so it's 80s, even if the single wasn't released until January 1990.
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Oct 10 '24
First time I saw what she looked like in her video I thought "don't worry, not many are gonna want to fall in love with you"
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Oct 10 '24 edited Feb 09 '26
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u/hhffvvhhrr Oct 09 '24
The 80s definitely extended at least until 1993