Why don’t more people talk about Sheena Easton? Why do I never hear her songs anywhere I go unless they’re playing on my iPod. Why doesn’t she get more love? It’s not like she was a one-hit wonder, or some obscure also-ran. At her peak, she was every bit as huge as Belinda Carlisle, an equally beautiful but less gifted singer. (Fun fact: She was born Sheena Shirley Orr, meaning that she shares a maiden name and a professional surname — from her first husband — with two members of the Cars, Elliot Easton and Benjamin Orr, whose band was scoring concurrent hits.) She went to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 (with 1981’s “Morning Train [9 to 5],” which I used to own on vinyl), making her one of the few solo UK-bred female singers to do so; she sang a hit James Bond theme (1982’s “For Your Eyes Only,” which I also owned on vinyl), and she held her own with Prince (on her Top 10 single “Sugar Walls,” and on his, “U Got the Look”).

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She won the 1981 Best New Artist Grammy; she crossed over into acting (in a multi-episode arc as Sonny Crockett’s ill-fated wife on Miami Vice); and she was one of the few artists besides Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers (maybe the only other one) to score Top 10 hits on the pop, R&B and country singles charts. Despite her considerable success in the U.S. And the quality of her music, somehow the ongoing wave of ’80s nostalgia never really swept the Scottish singer, now 53, up and back into mainstream consciousness. She’s not even a gay icon, despite releasing a 2000 collection of solid disco covers called Fabulous, which was her last studio album. Easton was a pop rarity: a fantastic singer who probably could have gotten by on her sex appeal alone. If she were a star today, she might be Adele’s voice in Katy Perry’s body — or something like that. I remember watching her HBO concert back in the early ’80s and actually questioning my sexuality.

“Maybe I do like girls, after all.” That might not be the mark of a great singer (the proof of that is in her music — see below, or rather, listen), but it’s the best evidence I have of her truly transformative power. Five Amazing Sheena Easton Songs You’ve Either Never Heard Or Probably Haven’t Thought About in Decades “You Could Have Been With Me” A No. Roald Dahl The Gremlins Pdf Merge more. 15 hit that was overshadowed by her bigger aforementioned early hits, this 1981 single was my favorite Easton song for two years (and it made me wish I were the seventh son of the seventh son because she made it sound like such a strange and special one to be), until “Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair),” which I loved even more than I probably would have had she spelled the title the way Alexander Graham Bell intended. One of the most pleasantly surprising things I noticed about Bangkok when I returned after two months in Melbourne, was how little everything had changed.

And what a welcome, um, change that was! During my four and a half years living in Buenos Aires, I’d become accustomed to radical, rapid, constant change. It was the way of the world over there — or down there (depending on where you are as you read this, if you’re reading this).

Leave town for one week, and when you returned, everything had gone up up up: the price of ensalada de fruta, new buildings, the number of streets under construction. Bangkok, though, for the most part, was just as I’d left it. Same personnel to greet me at the Anantara Bangkok Sathorn (once again my home away from home, wherever that is), same congested roads, same price for delicious 4-star street food. One thing, however, would have benefited from some major revamping: the playlist at DJ Station. When I walked in on Saturday night for the first time since New Year’s Eve, the first thing I heard was “I love you like a love song, baby.” Here we go again — again: “Love You Like a Love Song” by Selena Gomez.