Dave Spins The Human League

Brrr. Chilly as I write this, and gettin' chillier. This here's cuddling weather, the kinda weather where you pull the curtains tight and get feet deep in a snuggle puddle. Alright, this is getting weird. The Week Of Slow Jams continues today with a guy and a girl, just keeping it...Human.

Sorry, baby. You gotta forgive me. Sure you I tripped and fell into the neighbor, but I was only being, you know, human.

And the turn at the end of the song.

While you away, dallying about, I was human, too.

SNAP!

Sure this sounds like a leftover Janet Jackson song, and that's because it was written and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. It was the second half of the eighties and all those Brit-Wave MTV bands were floundering. What to do when the avant garde is no longer top of the marketplace? SELL OUT HARD. And that's what the Human League did. And it worked...for this one song. It went to number one on the Billboard Hot One Hundred, sold a million copies, and breathed new, if brief life into a stagnating band.And the video looked really really cool...and blue. And truth be told, it's a pretty cool song, deep and moody, all slammy drum pattern and sad harmony sloshing about in a sea of drowny keyboards. So they sold out, and won.

But, hey, they were only human, right?

Shut up, Dave.

Right.

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