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Song of the Day #481: ‘(Believed You Were) Lucky’ – ‘Til Tuesday

everythingsdifferentnowBy the release of ‘Til Tuesday’s third and final album, 1988’s Everything’s Different Now, it had become clear that Aimee Mann was destined for bigger things. Infighting began over the direction of the group’s sound and Mann’s evolution into the primary songwriter.

Everything’s Different Now is the only ‘Til Tuesday album I own, and it’s a good one. It suffers a bit from dated production — there’s no mistaking it for a late 80s release — but the songwriting is top notch. Mann was really coming into her own as a writer and performer. A collaboration with Elvis Costello, ‘The Other End of the Telescope,’ would eventually wind up as the lead song on his All This Useless Beauty album.

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Song of the Day #480: ‘Voices Carry’ – ‘Til Tuesday

voicescarryI’ve wondered sometimes about the reasons behind the fate of one-hit wonders. Presuming there’s some level of talent involved in producing a quality song that strikes a nerve with the listening public, what keeps an artist from leveraging that talent into a sustainable career?

Is it bad luck? Or perhaps that one song is all he or she had in the creative bank to begin with? Might, say, a-ha have gone on to have the career of Duran Duran under different circumstances?

I mention this as a way to back into the start of a 2-week Aimee Mann theme, because it seems that back in 1985, when ‘Til Tuesday released ‘Voices Carry,’ they (and she) could very well have ended up as one-hit wonders.

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