Tunes on 2s - Electric Youth – Debbie Gibson (1989)

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E-lec-tric Youth!
Feel the power, you see the energy
Comin’ up, comin’ on strong
The future only belongs to the future itself
And the future is…Electric Youth!

I'm throwing you a curveball here...hey, I never said these Tunes on 2s would be about good songs, just songs that held particular memories for me.

I cannot tell you how many hours were spent dancing to this song on the brown livingroom carpet of the house I grew up in. I have no idea where anyone else was, but dude…I was busting out with moves I believed to be as close to the music video as you could get. The song incited some kind of power, some kind of ambivalence…yeah! We are Electric Youth! We know what’s up! We are cool! We have mediocre dance moves! Debbie Gibson is awesome! My love of the song created a need to have the accompanying Electric Youth fragrance, which took its rightful place on my dresser next to the Xclamation! and Love’s Baby Soft – the trio of toilet water that constituted every pre-teen girls’ fragrance collection in the late 80s/early 90s. When I needed a break from all that dancing and smelling pretty, I just forwarded the cassette tape to “Lost in Your Eyes” and expressed the flutters of my adolescent heart in song (you know you secretly still love it).

Since I embarassed my parents last time, I'll embarass myself by shooting you a photo from 1989, when I was rocking the big bad brown glasses.

It's doubtful Tunes on 2s will ever feature Debbie Gibson again, so feel free to share memories for anything in her repertoire of songs.