Neneh Cherry - Manchild

[@tpjohnson6304]

The world wasn't big enough when she hit. There wasn't enough room for her. They should have made room. She was extraordinary.

[@indabronxx]

Na ja …

[@robertbatty8263]

She was seven seconds too late. ❤

[@davidlloyd9598]

The chord progression in this song is amazing. Such a great song.

[@lickopotamusslurperton1944]

I totally agree with you. I have been playing music all my life, and I love how the chords in this song work so well. They sound broken and unfinished. And that is what adds to the beauty of this piece.

[@BossySwan]

@@lickopotamusslurperton1944unfinished chord sympathy

[@BossySwan]

The precursor to Unfinished Sympathy.

[@satura5848]

Love it, so woozy, psychedelic and constantly shifting. My aunt used to babysit me around the time this was released and I distinctly remember her playing it a lot. I have a funny feeling it seeped into my brain and influenced a lot of my musical tastes in the years that followed.

[@westcountrywanderings]

@@BossySwan Indeed so. She really helped The Wild Bunch by paying them a salary. A Swedish lass that came to the Westcountry of England - it boosted her career and theirs. Phenomenal!

[@The_Crow78.]

The 80's and 90's were the best decades for music.

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

I love it ...but as a mom.. I can't look at her when she's not holding that baby's back😆

[@alib463]

And the 60s. Hundreds of classics from that decade.

[@The_Crow78.]

@@alib463 Yes.

[@Andrea-ys6vt]

Sooo trueee ❤❤❤❤❤

[@The_Crow78.]

@@Andrea-ys6vt 🤠👌

[@DoctorMeatDic]

Neneh Cherry was a groundbreaker in 80s Britain. Aggressive, unashamedly a mother, appearing on TOTP heavily pregnant, Swedish-born but unmistakeably British, London to be exact. A fantastic artist, never apologetic, and a string of amazing songs.

[@nonni139]

She grew up in Sweden and America, moved to London when she was 15.She lived in Sweden for some years as an adult around 2014 -. Her name is also Marianne Karlsson.

[@annaturek1226]

​@@nonni1390:46 0:46 0:46 0:47 0:47 0:47 0:47 0:47 0:47 0:48 0:49 0:49 0:49 0:49 0:50 0:50 0:50 0:51 0:52 0:52 0:52 0:52 0:53 0:53 0:53 0:53 0:53 0:53 0:54 0:54 0:54 0:55 0:55 0:55 0:55 0:56 0:56 0:56 0:56 0:57 0:58 0:58 0:59 0:59

[@anaalonsovillalobos4693]

She moved to Spain

[@kadkain278]

As a 50 year old male father from Iowa I am hearing and seeing this song for the very first time. You would think this was produced just yesterday! The complex chord structure of the music, The lyrics( so true today) , and visually stunning effects of the video. Neneh Cherry and her crew were so far ahead of their time. She is Amazing!!

[@errYuck]

It's hardly a complex chord structure

[@MarkSiosal]

@@errYuck yes it is. It's a complex piece of music when you strip it back compared to most chart music. The verses sound almost jazz like in structure. The key changes are subtle. The string arrangement is sublime too.

[@Mclenchie]

Her Dad was Don Cherry free jazz trumpeter so no doubt on the changes. Fire as the kids say these days!

[@ErikBruchez]

@@MarkSiosal Seconded. It's not your typical chord changes. It modulates in interesting ways.

[@djhamo0com]

L

[@JackAcid]

Another tune that changed my life in 1989. This is a fucking masterpiece. Still as haunting now as it ever was.

[@FrancesReid-pb5tf]

So True x❤

[@peaceofmindofpeace1650]

I was 19 in 1989 and I remember enjoying this song nonstop, singing and dancing in my room or watching this clip and wanting my mother to like it too.

[@lickopotamusslurperton1944]

I play the keyboard, and from my classical training, I still can't work out how these chords work so well when they are all wrong. But they do! :D

[@KaylasMusicalDigest545]

The Bee Gees said that they liked this song! I'm glad I discovered this song today!😊😊

[@CurtisCameron]

The video for this is absolutely incredible for its time. Classic.

[@Palmtree-b1l]

and so outdated today!

[@TaraTheAndroid]

Nonsense. Our time isn't even close to the 80's

[@beerlover7460]

Who's listening to this all time of one of the best clips

[@clairefox4640]

Yup @1989 -2021 ✌️✌️✌️🌎😘😘😘

[@beerlover7460]

@@clairefox4640 😘😘😘

[@amyholley4331]

Me

[@MartyElnura]

Me

[@jasonaddley9340]

Me Jay UK love this track 💘

[@FlickanIDetKroktaRummet]

she is still the only real swedish rapper. this is a masterpiece.

[@chain2fate]

Neneh Cherry does not get the credit she deserves for being one of the pioneers to hip hop/r&b. Sadly most kids wouldn't know her name today.

[@rjo78]

+chain2fate i do :) but then again i'm old too xD

[@sammyvscott]

chain2fate rite...she set the stage for most women

[@kingfishblues59]

We gotta change that. Share, Share , Share.

[@ЛеонидБородкин-я9о]

Now she try herself in free jazz music

[@glisper]

she freed music from jazz?

[@traffic71]

One of the best tracks of my youth. So glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

[@rw8733]

I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could 😢

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

I remember saying to my dad what was it like before TVs I'm 47 different times live and learn better days

[@jaynemiddleton7147]

She was a game changer. She performed on stage and in videos heavily pregnant showing all aspects of womanhood. No one had seen that before.

[@helenjordan6255]

Very well said.xx

[@logicali9575]

Loved her tour video, wish I still had it

[@empireman1077]

@@helenjordan6255 was it around 1987/88 She appears in top of the pops I bought the album in 89!

[@nicoleh.6059]

Tina Turner used to perform while pregnant, way back in the '60s.

[@Synthematix]

But now shes gay lol

[@daryls43]

"you'd sell your soul for a tacky song like the one's you hear on the radio" words are even truer nearly 30 years later

[@holdensupreme9436]

DEFINITELY.

[@Maya-lk6yo]

Omg yes

[@mariabenetti8902]

Portobello Road, London, Tesco store fridge section: I first saw Neneh in person circa 1991. She kindly signed my school folder at the checkout and was the sweetest person. She was tiny, well dressed, fresh faced and spoke with a transatlantic accent (a mx of London and NYC). I recall how different her public image was to her private. Nobody at school believed it was her who signed my folder though 😂 Her album was the most played on my Walkman 👍

[@Nicko6180]

Can't believe this song is 30 years old, it still sounds fresh and different and original. Songs today won't age anything like this well.

[@nickcox2974]

This song and video is so well made can watch her all day well done love it

[@wibblewobble1934]

Yeah this track was so far ahead of its time. Blew my mind when it first came out.

[@Haryel1987]

No, because despite are rubish all "the music" today is homogenous and with expiration date

[@veroniquemaurits2977]

Wish I could go back to that time...... Wonderful times ❤️❤️

[@valentinfabre2016]

@@wibblewobble1934 mm

[@monacaravetta]

This video still looks great. It was a breakthrough in 1989...I still love it.

[@chucku00]

+Mo Vetta The word is "Mondino".

[@chaddeez8446]

I always thought she was from the future.

[@rodgerczarnetzki1869]

Einfach unterschätzt..... Schade!

[@superiorbeing95]

It looks like it cost $50 to make.

[@BillAnt]

Don't forget 30 years ago we didn't have all the fancy special effects like today. ;)

[@LaDominicana2011]

I was 18 and just had a baby when this song came out. It just hits different for me remembering how I felt at that moment... bittersweet memories. I'm 53 now (baby is 35) and I still love this song so much.

[@professorbed]

There are hints here on what would become Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy, Always loved Manchild, vastly underrated song. The last rap with that string arrangement is just stunning.

[@sinepopuli]

Yes, this song would compose nicely with Unfinished Sympathy in the mix, and Unfinished Sympathy would then handsomely be followed by the Streets of Philadelphia. All three are my favorites from 80/90s era..

[@afrose71]

Robert Del Naja co-wrote the song, so the Massive Attack trip-hop synth influence is not that surprising.

[@Plexpara]

her husband was actually the producer of massive attack.

[@superleeds2739]

i think that she actually bankrolled massive until blue lines came out. 3D co-wrote this song and i think that mushroom is the guy in the vid. she even name drops the wild bunch, as massive were known then, on buffalo stance

[@verapamil07]

Great catch man

[@fifty-somethingwitch2406]

Absolutely gorgeous song from an amazing woman. I loved her when I was 19, and I love her now at 49.

[@beerlover7460]

great

[@hqironing2285]

What’s love mean though? I used to love Amy, but she barely understood I was alive. What’s this all about? I know there are millions of couples that decide they love each other in reciprocation, good luck to them. I hate myself. Why would any girl be attracted to me in any way?

[@gavinsmith9022]

I'm 51 an still lovin her, especially this tune.

[@SuperMmelaura]

​@hqironing2285 Are you kind? ❤ If you are sweet, people will love you. Don't sell yourself short! ❤

[@allyssalambden7217]

Me too luv at 47

[@kyleking284]

Buffalo Stance was way before its time in '89 so unique💃😁

[@ajs41]

That was 88.

[@optimisticwhovian1726]

Does anyone else get nostalgic for these old late 80s early 90s visual effects?

[@beerlover7460]

me

[@mikekaraoke]

And mid 80's as well like in-Dire Straits-Money for Nothing, Peter Gabriel + Kate Bush-Don't Give Up. etc

[@miriw.4273]

Me👍

[@sylviev5745]

Me!@

[@Leatherbro]

All the time.

[@lindsaymoss4999]

This is what you call music, it has meaning …. Love it ❤

[@MegaLotusEater]

The chord changes in the verse are inspired, haunting, sublime.

[@AnUsT2468]

I agree. It is so strange yet interesting.

[@lickopotamusslurperton1944]

I agree. I play the keyboard and write music. But there is something unique about these chords. They feel broken & unfinished, but for some reason, in this piece, they work so well.

[@Nostrum84]

that's quite a complex chord compression and melody, we rarely hear this on radio anymore. glad stuff like this did make it to the radio. this is a masterpiece classic

[@joolenka]

This song and video blew my little mind at 13 years old. Now at 42, I still return to it from time to time to draw inspiration. That's what you call timeless creative brilliance.

[@ulrichbittl2347]

glad to be born 71, so I grew up with the 90s, great song, great artist!

[@stevebrazilio]

This song is in my top ten and believe me, I have thousands of faves. This is unique, Neneh's vocals, the background scratching, the synthesizers, the video - shaking around and the lyrics... a goosebump song for me. Absolute classic. Thank you Neneh!

[@jovanlazovic6692]

Same here! I just keep coming back to it. And I am a music freak. Not sure if I could label it as Top10, but it's definitely in the Top. Cheers!

[@Ghettomentality]

The track you always come back to when your a dude in your 40/50's whose been divorced , single or wasted and spent time reflecting on where you went wrong in life man this song just literally sum's it all up for you.

[@Winona493]

What is it about????? I cannot understand.

[@Winona493]

I mean, I understand the words but unluckily not the meaning.😢

[@hendrikjorke6892]

I was 24 old,when this song was eddited..September 1989,,I so like to hear it,again and again.

[@paulsidaway4014]

Me too. Only seems like yesterday. This was a fantastic song then as it is now.

[@omegakidmusic]

Strings quality is unbelievable even after 25 years.

[@marvaff6878]

This was futuristic. 1989?! So ahead of it's time, looks real clean - even now.

[@thehoneyeffect]

So true

[@jessicalane6337]

This just took me right back to summer 92 i was 12, coming back from swimming out all day in the heat and we were oblivious to this evil world then, brilliant 🙏

[@stephenjackson6415]

Out way before 92

[@jessicalane6337]

Yeah I know it was out in 89 but it was still playing on the radio all the time.

[@MitchelGant]

definitely not a 'tacky song'. solid gold classic.

[@DarrenBonJovi]

MitchelGant Definitely a classic "zeitgeist" tune. Iconic.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

DarrenBonJovi It'd be a horrendous affront to this song to have it associated with zeitgeist.

[@DarrenBonJovi]

STEJTHEGREATEST Not sure how to reply to that. I thought I was being complimentary.

[@julianalstin7245]

DarrenBonJovi I get what you mean dude....spot on!

[@BillAnt]

So far 977 man-children gave it it a thumbs down, luckily the likes are real men. ;)

[@retrogaming7654]

For those deriding the video: "Neneh Cherry's Manchild. (Director: Jean-Baptiste Mondino.) Nothing less than one of the most visually arresting video clips ever produced, illustrating one of 1989's truly great singles, an accusatory yet compassionate balladic broadside." LA Times, November 1989

[@Kaleidalee]

I've always found this video hypnotizing, mesmerizing and surreal. I love it so much.

[@mattbpatterson]

This would be a challenging video to make today. It must have been pretty ambitious in 1989 on tape based editing systems and primitive digital compositing software

[@jimmyknopflericussi6488]

A classic in music history. The song will always work.

[@patrickstocks3986]

OK, you're on your own, it's late Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream Turn around, ask yourself So, you think you're gonna win this time Manchild? Is it the pain of the drinking Or the Sunday sinking feeling The car never seems to work When it's late your girlfriends on a date And the hero with her in your dream In your sleep it seemed to like you Turn around and ask yourself Turn around ask yourself Manchild, will you ever win Manchild, look at the state you're in Could you go undercover And sell your brand new lover (could you) Be someone else for a night Maybe someone else will love you You sell your soul for a tacky song Like the one you hear on the radio Turn around ask yourself Turn around and ask yourself Manchild, will you ever win Manchild, look at the state you're in Manchild, he will make you cry Manchild, Manchild, Manchild From Monday down to Friday You're working on another mans car Or is it in the factory? It doesn't matter where you are Just turn around and ask yourself is this communication Accentuate the positive and give some illustration See Manchild, you're no one, I turn the microphone on Control communication when I'm kickin it and so on To the point where I need, air that I breathe Into an audience that's waiting and ecstatic to receive For the meantime another mean rhyme I keep on sayin it I know what the time is and the crowd will keep on playing it Through the speaker boxes louds my diagnosis 'Cause I believe in miracles and words in steady doses Enough R-E-S-P-E and C-T Respect yourself express no stress the Mike is easy Just believe that all you need is the air that you breathe Turn around ask yourself Manchild, will you ever win Manchild, look at the state you're in Manchild, he will make you cry Manchild, Manchild, Manchild He's the apple of your eye Once bitten twice shy, why don't you bite me again Just take it in right and go tell your friend Are you ready for the words I turn the microphone on A figure of speech to reach you at the back and so on The style I'm stimulating dance floors Raise your body temperature now and This demands for power in the amp you in loud my diagnosis 'Cause I believe in miracles and words in heavy doses

[@AA-lc3hv]

Patrick Stocks thanks for the lyrics .😌

[@Dennis.prod.HSR1]

Thank you !!!!

[@MM-rb2cj]

MVP

[@sereion]

Thank you!!

[@enokcga7311]

This song marks the official birth of Trip Hop.

[@SwissTanuki]

But of course.. never thought about it.

[@Garcelle1987]

@@SwissTanuki The song was co produced by 3D from Massive Attack. Neneh was very instrumental in supporting the boys in the early part of their career

[@nicolabryan6102]

It was just…no one had ever done this before. The world moved on with this. Wonderful.

[@britishwordplay4335]

@@Garcelle1987 Well she did have Mabel with one of them

[@malelion]

When she went mainstream she never lost her background from The Slits and Rig Rip + Panic. So much integrity, a true pioneer.

[@cyrillewis8747]

Soooo many artists would not be around if she didn't do this. So underrated in my opinion

[@gmddarmanin6636]

What a fantastic song. Neneh was years ahead of her time and songs like this prove it.

[@garymartin9921]

donald trump

[@FlickanIDetKroktaRummet]

according to youtube comments, everyone who has done something old that still is good was "ahead of time". there's absolutely no logic in this horrible bullshit. but that's the thing about singularity. words and expressions are losing all their meaning.

[@FrancesReid-pb5tf]

❤one of my all time favourites (My Song) I was 17 now om 52 ❤❤

[@-ED-]

I absolutely love Neneh Cherry, I was around 14 or so when I heard Buffalo Stance on radio and fell in love with it in an instant! I have two of her albums and I listen to it very often... she is still one of my most favorite singer/rapper and I absolutely love her music (and all of her music videos as well) Neneh Cherry forever!

[@okilfeathermusic]

The chords of this song are great, they should do more of this type of progressions in pop music.

[@Robert_Manners]

Ed Totally agree, set the standard for the time. 1989 tastic

[@GreenDubWire]

I'm with you. My first love since "Manchild". Check the Band "Cirkus". I was very glad when I discovered it several years ago. Lovely and cool

[@basgrif8418]

Her cd Raw Like Sushi is still awesome! I used to listen to it on my walkman and now on my smartphone...

[@TheOne-pv4rz]

@ -ED- Bitcoin SV Channel l Didn't expect to find you here, but it seems we found something in common we can agree on. Great song.

[@uniteccreativeindustries5851]

She sings and raps equally well. Classic. Ahead of its time.

[@resousmoijesuislelienqueje474]

She wasn't even 20 t the time and had given birth just 3 weeks prior. It is her baby in the video. Magnificent Lyrics and video and melody

[@beastmother9437]

I listened to the song on MTV and held my little baby. Today my son's birthday...29!!! OMG...that time passed fast!!!! And the song is still beautiful ❤

[@archvaldor]

She was at the absolute top of her game here.

[@hollyandtheev6519]

I could be wrong but 1980s songs featuring strings are incredibly rare. As such, this signifies a shift in trends, ushering in a return to strings in the 1990s.

[@hassali79]

Sia did a wonderful job covering it but nothing compares to the original! Takes me back to my childhood♥️Neneh such a pioneer 🙏🏽

[@awaisamuel3642]

I heard Sia's first but I had to listen to the original

[@jerryblackwell3245]

Neneh was always ahead of her time. Lilly Allen mirrored her career after the stuff Ms. Cherry was doing in the 1980s and people bought it!

[@hollypietrzak5214]

i loved all of Neneh Cherrys albums she made so far

[@hugok3204]

Who gave her timemachine in '89? This song is so ahead of it's time. Masterpiece!

[@vol.9543]

What happened to a message in a song? Especially rap! Artist today are skilled at saying nothing. I respect Nina for keeping her clothes on, having principles and living her creative truth. Plus she's beautiful. She was the real deal; just ahead of her time in style.

[@chrismason4953]

so true no meaning today

[@stillben]

She took her underpants off in one of her 1990s videos

[@Truth1561]

Neneh.

[@holdensupreme9436]

True talent back then did not rely on such gimmicks. Multi talented Queen Latifah never resorted to it.

[@dwayneturner9395]

@@stillben what video....not that I'm excited or anything!!!....

[@SvenCurly]

Neneh Cherry, Salt 'n' Pepa, Wee Papa Girl Rappers -> what a great decade of female RAP. The BEST decade ever!

[@sorayaluna2127]

A diamond is a diamond is a diamond. This wonderful song came back into my mind when I was in a kind of melancholic mood and now I just can´t stop listening to it. A masterpiece.

[@nicolabryan6102]

That’s just it. A melancholic mood. That’s what this song is. Melancholy is ‘a pleasurable feeling of sadness’. I miss my boyfriend that I knew when I was listening to this song. He was wonderful. Everything I ever wanted. He went back to the states. My life has never been complete since. Like a sad mirror of what could have been.

[@Mies78]

Gawd I'm old. I listened this on tape.

[@knenda1]

+Michel van dijk What is tape ?

[@Coyote9Tnine]

+Michel van dijk I'm hearing you in stereo lol

[@knenda1]

+TheMuscle87 I thougt you ment Reel-to-reel , then you would have to be real old :)

[@mattpryokra2245]

Hahaha same here 😂

[@benwilde2188]

+Michel van dijk - Think I still have the tape from I used to tape the charts...

[@leejt101]

32 years later and this still sounds as fresh as ever! Neneh you legend! A pure orchestral beat masterpiece! ❤🎶

[@hillashfarm]

I love this song but the video has to be my favourite music video from the 80s.

[@monacaravetta]

hillashfarm a breakthrough for the time

[@johnnyloaps5034]

Song is over 30 years old and it still sounds just as fresh as it did back then!...she was way ahead of her time!

[@sarahzakiilebest6477]

C'est L'Artiste que mon père adorait en 1989! Quand ce titre est sorti!!!✨ C'est vraiment une très grande chanteuse avec une superbe voix!✨✨ Le clip est très réussi et cette musique géniale !!❤️❤️❤️

[@SebM98]

En collab avec 3D !

[@dusty4854]

When i hear this ,feels like yesterday 1989.Sill good

[@ctmagnus760]

One of the most brilliant songs ever. The music itself has a rare complexity and is incredibly beautiful. Lyrics are superb. She is a Goddess.

[@jakubgrochowski3135]

The BEST SONG EVER!!!!!

[@phelippedavid3832]

Absolutely UNIQUE sound ! Pure atmosphere. Pure voice. See the music descent in the end. We are in another world.

[@Skaterbun]

This song is still lovely and so memorable of an era, the video was so original too.

[@wairimumwambia8626]

She did set the bar too high for many Artists. The Lyrics, videography and her delivery. She's a masterpiece.

[@HenryWaltonJones]

Yep,she was so underrated though. Same with her Coach house mates,Massive Attack,another criminally underrated group,probably the greatest band of the 90's.Raw Like Sushi is a phenomenal album,way ahead of it's time.Cant express how much I love this song,it just reminds me of being a teenager and loving it and my mates not really getting it,and me knowing I was better then them(music wise).Smug.

[@didihamann8597]

.....and the Chords

[@trev1976]

Madonna hated her because of this

[@wairimumwambia8626]

@@HenryWaltonJones You are my kind of people!

[@domagius1969]

@@HenryWaltonJones Mate. Just Yes.

[@jxy566]

One of my favourite songs of all time!

[@GregNoahKogkalidis]

Class, style, substance and attitude. That's all it takes to make a great song/video iconic. Long live Neneh!

[@blackmore4]

+G. Noah K. As proven here, some good chords and a decent melody also help ;)

[@JuliaJoolz]

Always have loved nenehcherry, I am in late 50s now, and still enjoy her songs very much, she was ahead of her time

[@orencikspor]

So glad to be part of this era of music. Amazing

[@tz7813]

Judy Blame and Barry Kamen swinging into shot. Just an iconic video!

[@annedymond774]

Beautiful song, those were the days! All the rap artists and todays genres come from a legacy created by genius artists such as Neneh Cherry. I'll never forget those days.

[@cynthialaurore7801]

M.I.A. owes Neneh mad props!! Her whole style is from her really

[@jamesgibson3716]

+Cynthia Laurore I wish I could like this 100 times. So true...

[@esowe01]

so true Cynthia

[@KeshiaK39]

Cynthia Laurore So so true

[@aaronsoto9100]

well, she actually give her give props many times and mentioned her as an influence, you know, not like Rihanna and Beyonce.

[@terencejulius7314]

that is soo true !!!💯💯💯

[@Rich_Daniel78]

This song will forever be a Masterpiece and SLAYES anything that is out now in 2018. Neneh RULES!!!

[@duncanatkins1748]

This song is stuck in my head. Love the era I grew up in!

[@komododrag5232]

Ah yes the wonderful magical world of the 1980s.where oh where has that atmosphere gone ,where oh where can it be?😢😪😞❤️💞🌎

[@LaserLivestream]

I remember hearing this song for the first time at 4am on a Saturday morning. I was recording a call back show and immediately stopped the tape and listen to the song over and over till the sun came up. Still gives me chills when I hear it. Thank you...

[@emilyolivier1975]

I love 7 seconds away It's a part of my family, I am 3rd generation Indian before the partition in the 50's my grandparents fought for freedom in ww2 they were granted asylum here and worked their bottoms off ! This country holds no place for bigots or racists.......whose truly British 😮 England has always been a melting pot of other people...

[@mandygraham3027]

Can still sing every word to all the songs on Raw Like Sushi and still have the original cassette of this that I bought 30+ years ago ..this is my jam ..to this day she is still ahead of her time and this album still sounds fresh

[@nicoleherrington6423]

She set the bar so high, i keep coming back to her!

[@heliopolis29]

God, I love her to bits. What an influence she was.

[@musicfriekje]

By far her best song, still know all the lyrics 😅 Neneh was such a fresh air back then ❤

[@tr377723]

She was so far ahead of her time. I loved her as an artist 🖤🖤🖤

[@ehaworth9]

One of my favourite songs and videos from the late 80s, so stylised. RIP Barry Kamen x

[@beerlover7460]

for me too

[@MarcWeertsMusic]

The chords are amazing… totally unexpected yet not artificial. Great song!

[@achengoletkett6764]

the baby she's holding is her son. wicked. wicked lyrics. wicked vocals.

[@cynthialaurore7801]

Daughter

[@craigfothergill1804]

Still loving this song ...❤️ 2023 xx

[@henriqueramos3197]

NENEH CHERRY - RAW LIKE SUSHI Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish-British singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic. Cherry has released five studio albums under her own name. Her first, Raw Like Sushi, was released in 1989 and peaked at number three on the UK Album Chart, thanks in large part to the worldwide hit single "Buffalo Stance". Her second studio album was 1992's Homebrew. Four years later she released Man, with her next studio album, Blank Project, coming in 2014. Her most recent album, Broken Politics, was released in 2018. In addition to releasing these studio albums, she formed the band cirKus in 2006 and has collaborated with the Thing, releasing an album entitled The Cherry Thing in 2012. Cherry has won two Brit Awards and an MTV Europe Music Award (with Youssou N'Dour). She has also been nominated for a Grammy Award. Cherry moved to the United Kingdom when she was 15, in the midst of the punk era, and she remembers finding "her people" there. Cherry had met Tessa Pollitt, Viv Albertine and Ari Up from the Slits earlier as her stepfather, Don Cherry, was touring with them and took the 15-year-old Neneh along. She and Ari lived in a squat in Battersea. She felt at home, after ending up there because The Slits invited Don Cherry to go on tour with them with Prince Hammer and Creation Rebel. In London, Cherry joined the punk rock band The Cherries. She moved through several bands, including the Slits, New Age Steppers, Rip Rig + Panic, and Float Up CP. She also DJ'd, playing early rap music on the reggae pirate Dread Broadcasting Corporation. Cherry has stated that she found her voice singing along with Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex. She grew up in a musical family; she remembers singing with her father at the piano. ❤️💯‼️ And I have the great, great honor of having in my discography one copy of the first studio work, the excellent CD-album by this talented artist, singer, songwriter and producer, RAW LIKE SUSHI, released in 1989. Congratulations, Neneh Cherry, for your excellent first studio work! You deserve all the success you have had, and still have, in your professional career as a music artist! Kisses! ❤️💯‼️ Raw Like Sushi is the debut studio album by Swedish musician Neneh Cherry, released 5 June 1989 by Virgin Records. The album includes the commercially successful single "Buffalo Stance". An early version of "Buffalo Stance" appeared on the B-side of the 1986 Stock Aitken Waterman-produced Morgan-McVey single, "Looking Good Diving", titled "Looking Good Diving with the Wild Bunch". The single was not successful; however, the B-side was re-recorded with Tim Simenon of Bomb the Bass, and became the version of "Buffalo Stance" that was a worldwide hit, reaching #3 in the UK Singles Chart, #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 in the Netherlands and Sweden. The album also contains the #8 US (and #20 UK hit "Kisses on the Wind", and the #5 UK hit "Manchild". All musicians and programmers are credited in the album sleeve, however Cameron McVey, Cherry's husband, is credited as "Booga Bear". Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja co-wrote "Manchild", and fellow member Andrew Vowles aka DJ Mushroom performs on "Kisses on the Wind", "The Next Generation" and "So Here I Come". "My Bitch" is a vocal duet with Gilly G. The cover and inner photos were shot by fashion photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Raw Like Sushi was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Certifications and sales for Raw Like Sushi: United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum 300,000, Worldwide -+ 2,000,000 ❤️💯‼️

[@henriqueramos3197]

MANCHILD OK, you're on your own, it's late Your girlfriend is on another date With the hero in your dream Turn around, ask yourself So you think you're gonna win this time, manchild? Is it the pain of the drinking or the Sunday sinking feeling? The car never seems to work When it's late your girlfriend's on a date And the hero with her in your dream in your sleep seemed like you Turn around, ask yourself Turn around, ask yourself Manchild, will you ever win? Manchild, look at the state you're in Could you go undercover and sell your brand new lover? (Could you) be someone else for a night? Maybe someone else will love you You'd sell your soul for a tacky song like the ones you hear on the radio Turn around, ask yourself Turn around and ask yourself Manchild, will you ever win? Manchild, look at the state you're in Manchild, he will make you cry Manchild, manchild, manchild From Monday down to Friday You're working on another man's car Or is it in the factory? It doesn't matter where you are Just turn around and ask yourself, is this communication? Accentuate the positive to give some illustration See, manchild, you're no one, I'll turn the microphone on Control communication when I'm kicking it and so on To the point where I need the air that I breathe Into an audience that's waiting and ecstatic to receive For the meantime another mean rhyme, I keep on saying it I know what the time is and the crowd will keep on playing it Through the speaker boxes. Loud's my diagnosis 'Cause I believe in miracles and words in steady doses Enough R-E-S-P-E and C-T Respect yourself, express, no stress, the mike is easy Just believe that all you need is the air that you breathe (Turn around and ask yourself) Manchild, will you ever win? Manchild, look at the state you're in Manchild, he will make you cry Manchild, manchild, manchild He's the apple of your eye Once bitten, twice shy, why don't you bite me again Just take it in right and go tell your friend Are you ready for the words? I'll turn the microphone on A figure of speech to reach you at the back and so on The style I'm stimulating dance floors Raise your body temperature now and this demands for Power in the amp, you know loud's my diagnosis 'Cause I believe in miracles, words in heavy doses Produced by Booga Bear & The Bubble Bunch Written by Neneh Cherry, Robert "3D" del Naja & Booga Bear Album RAW LIKE SUSHI (1989)

[@vMaxHeadroom]

Growing up in the 80's with so much great talent.... another timeless classic!....wow she was just so ahead of the times, such great music, such craft....

[@jimmarshall3724]

heard this song on radio 2 yesterday, what a funky tune to stumble upon. I think this is an influence of massive attack and perhaps portishead

[@Risingson2]

To Massive Attack is surely was: after all it was Neneh Cherry the one that grabbed the guys, put some money and persuaded them to record an album (some of it in Neneh's house).

[@stevelegge3307]

Professor Know-it-all That's because a member of Massive attack co-wrote this track

[@smcmullan995]

DJs Daddy G and Andrew Vowles and graffiti artist-turned-rapper Robert Del Naja met as members of partying collective The Wild Bunch. One of the first homegrown soundsystems in the UK, The Wild Bunch became dominant on the Bristol club scene in the mid-1980s. Massive Attack started as a spin-off production trio in 1988, with the independently released song, "Any Love", sung by falsetto-voiced singer-songwriter Carlton McCarthy, and then, with considerable backing from Neneh Cherry, they signed to Circa Records[in 1990 committing to deliver six studio albums and a "best of" compilation. Circa became a subsidiary of, and was later subsumed into, Virgin Records, which in turn was acquired by EMI.Blue Lines (1991), was co-produced by Jonny Dollar and Cameron McVey, who also became their first manager. Geoff Barrow, who went on to form Portishead, was an intern and trainee tape operator at Bristol's Coach House studio when the album was recorded. McVey (credited at the time as 'Booga Bear') and his wife, Neneh Cherry provided crucial financial support and in-kind assistance to the early careers of Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky during this period, even paying regular wages to them through their Cherry Bear Organisation.Massive Attack used guest vocalists, interspersed with Del Naja and Marshall's (initially Tricky's) own sprechgesang stylings, on top of what became regarded as an essentially British creative sampling production; a trademark sound that fused down-tempo hip hop, soul, reggae and other eclectic references, musical and lyrical

[@jimmarshall3724]

There you have it, i thought they sounded pretty similar :)

[@sandro.j.almeida]

A gifted artist. My life soundtrack. I'm already 48 but my youth was surrounded by the best. Thank you very much Neneh. Love you forever.

[@sveingrimstad9151]

Still listening in 2016? I do, cause it brings good memories from summer weekations in my young teens.

[@chrisbeaven6521]

At the time when she hit the charts, I was never keen on her productions at first but look back on it and see that these songs were classics and were way ahead of the time in the late '80's. Her collaboration with Youssou N'Dour on Seven Seconds in 1994 was one of the best productions in the 1990's.

[@Droidzi]

appreciated Neneh back in the day - she did some awesome colabs as well, e.g. matt johnson 1987 and Neneh and the thing 2012

[@MegaMobs123]

What a tune, still sounds as awesome now as it did then👌👌

[@frenchieseverine4514]

This woman loved children for sure! Manchild or the child that is conceived and that needs love and gives you a lot of tenderness but also gives tears even if a child is the future of the humanity.Children make us think of essential things like playing ,living in a simple way..it is the message of the video i think..Live for the important things which are love,air,communication and not the futile ones.

[@trakula618]

It was a song about immature men

[@empireman1077]

I was out one night in either 86/87' @ Brunel rooms Swindon When I saw Neneh, on the dance floor I didn't know who she was ( or, upcoming pop star )🤔 I expect she was doing a few songs before launching into her tour ?.Raw Like Sushi I spoke to her for several minutes, 💃🤝 we shook & she went to to change clothes, on stage she was 🙌 Brilliant, energetic and Soulful, about 6 months later she appeared on top of the pops 🥰

[@ac-oo1pq]

This video still looks great. It was a breakthrough in 1989...I still love it. definitely not a 'tacky song'. solid gold classic.

[@ther1z4]

I was in London in summer 1989. This song was popular along with Jason Donovan's Sealed With a Kiss.

[@lindahf1]

My favourite song by Neneh Cherry

[@robbudd3522]

One of my favourite songs of all time! When i hear this ,feels like yesterday 1989.Sill good This actually was ahead of its time, I can't help relate 1989 with this... do you? She sings and raps equally well. Classic. Ahead of its time.