<\/a>\u201980s. \u201cVenus\u201d is the perfect example of synthesizers being played the right way; not since Donna Summer\u2019s \u201cI Feel Love\u201d has the instrument been showcased so effectively. Not bad for a song the girls hadn’t even intended to record, but once they did they knew it had to be a single, and it shows three performers coming out of their shell. <\/p>\nTrue Confessions <\/i>is one of those albums that tends to get better with age, and I say that because it took a while to grow on me. The title track would have made a terrific follow-up single to \u201cVenus\u201d, but \u201cMore Than Physical\u201d was chosen instead. It\u2019s important to note the album version of \u201cMore Than Physical\u201d is noticeably slower and not as strong than the re-mixed single version. Also, the lyrics are unsubstantial and somewhat goofy. And then they had to go and release the anemic \u201cA Trick Of The Night\u201d as the third single. <\/i><\/p>\n
Songs like \u201cDance With A Stranger\u201d and \u201cHooked On Love\u201d are far better representations than those singles. With its bossa-nova rhythm, \u201cDance With A Stranger\u201d is as close to jazz as Bananarama will ever get. The airy track provides a nice change of pace, similar to Tina Turner\u2019s \u201cPrivate Dancer.\u201d As an anti-drug song, \u201cHooked On Love\u201d is an appropriate selection to close out the album and joins the ranks of other past Bananarama statement songs like \u201cRough Justice.\u201d <\/p>\n
Other highlights include \u201cReady Or Not\u201d and \u201cDo Not Disturb,\u201d and the album as a whole marks a shift from the new wave sound the band had used up until now. Part of this is because of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman songwriting team, which helped this disc become popular but caused a rift in the group. Member Siobhan Fahey made one more album with the group before leaving, and subsequent albums lack the punch of this one. <\/p>\n
True Confessions <\/i>captures the girls at their peak. Though the Stock, Aitken and Waterman formula has been decried by critics, Bananarama was able to benefit from it at just the right time. That formula, together with the girls\u2019 own talent and the strength of \u201cVenus,\u201d makes this a classic pop album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":28568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7852],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-40038","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-bananarama","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40038"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}