How
many times have you heard a pop song where the woman is desperately dreaming for some
super-suave ladies' man on a big white horse to come in and sweep her
off her feet? Not the Pointer Sisters. See, the Pointer Sisters love
you for who you are. The Pointer Sisters understand the appeal of the
"nice guy."
Here is the rare '80s hit to praise passivity and humility over action and confidence.
"He's So Shy" is so bouncy, so sweet, so ingratiating in every way, I wish I could tell you more about how much I adore this song ... if I wasn't so
painfully shy!
And why does everybody have to be in such a rush these days? Whatever happened to taking your time?
The
Pointer Sisters were so full of positivity and good nature, they weren't even afraid to encourage their weird-sounding,
super-deep voiced sister to sing now and then. I'm pretty sure when most
people heard "Automatic," they thought, "All right, a great new Stevie
Wonder song!" And then they found out it was the Pointer Sisters. "So
wait, you mean to tell me ... that's a woman?" Ruth Pointer - and what a
woman she is. Does she have a stray testicle somewhere?
So
let me pose a thought experiment to you: it's 1984, the Pointer Sisters
are putting out a song called "Jump (For My Love)," and you need to
make a video. What else is going on in 1984? The Summer Olympics! Come
on guys, this video makes itself!
Finally, before I get
too excited to talk about anything else other than the sheer, unbridled
majesty of the Pointer Sisters, there is "I'm So Excited." When the
Pointer Sisters initially released the song in 1982, nobody actually got
all that excited; it peaked at #30. But in the wake of
"Automatic" and "Jump (For My Love)," the song was re-released, and this
time listeners mustered up the appropriate level of excitement; it peaked at #9, going on to become
arguably their best-known hit (and with the Pointer Sisters, that is
saying something). Check out the extended 12" version, where all the
instruments drop out of the mix at the end except for the bass and bongos and the
sisters can barely stop themselves from jamming! The song is also, if
I'm not mistaken, the unofficial marketing theme for Cialis. Remember tiger: they make look excited, but underneath, what they really want is a shy guy with a slow hand. Hell, they're so excited, they're even wearing sunglasses in the bath tub.
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Great article! Just for the record: "He's So Shy" is meant to be hilariously Ironic. The manboy she's talking about is sometimes shy, but in general the EXACT OPPOSITE. Ask June herself!
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