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"Promises are snapped in two...And words are made to bend..."
The Thompson Twins. Discuss.
"Lies" made the top 40, but I didn't hear it that much. I remember hearing it in my parents' Horizon as we tooled down the street though. But it was the video that really grabbed my attention.
I saw the video one day, and I burst out laughing! The funniest part was the Thompsons' faces flying toward the viewer as they sang the chorus. To show you how much influence music-related media had at the time, the feet moving in the foreground also inspired a school photography project.
"Lies" has rarely been heard since. That's what this lost hits blog is all about. But the song's influence just won't go away! Only a few years ago, my zine was going strong with its unbeatable formula that relied heavily on funny stories about people breaking or ruining their eyeglasses - usually on purpose. One 2017 vignette was about how a woman on a parenting blog said her daughter kept breaking her own glasses at least once per week - usually by poking the lenses out. But the daughter came up with a new strategy of grabbing the glasses by each arm and tearing them off.
The title of this piece was "Glasses are snapped in two...And words are made to bend..."
And that's no lie!
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