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To: OrangeHoof
The song was a Top 5 hit in the UK and really is Anglo-centric so it probably has no audience beyond the UK.

The video was in heavy rotation on U.S. MTV in its early years. Americans don't have to understand all of the lyrics to like a catchy tune.
24 posted on 01/11/2022 6:31:01 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Americans don't have to understand all of the lyrics to like a catchy tune.

I think "99 Luftballoons" proved that. ;P

49 posted on 01/11/2022 9:27:09 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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