Bananarama

[iwbus]

The song Robert De Niro's waiting is apparently about a rape. Was the victim anyone comnnected with the band? And why we they thinking of Robert?

[joko]

how do you figure that?

Hopes dashed to the floor
Like shattered teenage dreams
Boys living next door
Are never what they seem

A walk in the park can become a bad dream
People are staring and following me
This is my only escape from it all
Watching a film or a face on the wall

I don't need a boy
I've got a man of steel
Don't come any closer
I don't wanna feel

Your breathing, your touching, but nothing's for free
I never want this to happen to me
Don't try to change me you're wasting your time
Now I've got something much better in mind

A walk in the park can become a bad dream
People are staring and following me
This is my only escape from it all
Watching a film or a face on the wall

[iwbus]

Do a Google search from bananarama + "robert de niro" + rape and see how many sites mention it

[KebabMeister]

Try searching Bananarama+IRA and see what you get too....

[littleoldme]

It does seem possible:

Boys living next door
Are never what they seem

A neighbour who has previously seemed trustworthy turns out to be nothing of the sort, perhaps?

A walk in the park can become a bad dream

The location of the attack?

This is my only escape from it all
Watching a film or a face on the wall

The victim losing herself in a film as a retreat from the horrors in her real life?

Your breathing, your touching, but nothing's for free
I never want this to happen to me

Implying a lack of consent to intimate contact?

Cooo...I never realised Banananananramamaramarama were so, like, deep maaaan.

[lionelhutz]

banarama are really deep. lol two IRA songs aswell, rough justice and king of the jungle......... I quote

The more serious "Rough Justice" details the tragic situation in Northern Ireland, including domestic violence, con-men, but mostly the IRA bombings: "Innocent people walking by/no time to smile before they die/don't call that justice/children are starving on the street/another one disappearing every week/don't call that justice." Also, "I remember the pain and humiliation/I'll show them rough justice/the way that they did."

"King Of The Jungle" seems to be an IRA gunman song, someone who pushes guns by day, stalks at night, and has "gotta make another martyr

[joko]

blimey lionelhutz.

good effort littleoldme, but i'm not convinced -you could probably do that with a lot of songs

- and are they accusing bob? and he speaks perfect english so why must they talk in italian? lots of songs make no sense sometimes

have bananarama spoken of this? admitted, denied etc

imagine atomic kitten, or girls aloud doing something like that...lol

[joko]

also type your own name with those words - see what comes up....

[lionelhutz]

amazing what you can find or make up from third rate evidence on the net. that quote was from an ambulm review in 1992 i think, it was on amazon....

[lionelhutz]

or even an album

[ermintrude35]

...scrol down to "trivia" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_De_Niro