Comments on: What I Know About Women Could Be Written On A Twitter

By: Thierry

Thierry — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:42:30 +0000

@Thierry: scratch that "!".

By: Thierry

Thierry — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:40:19 +0000

@MrStarhead: Or a copy of Stink! played at half speed.

By: MrStarhead

MrStarhead — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:22:26 +0000

Listening to this again for the first time in several years, it’s weird how much this song sounds like early-’90s Soul Asylum.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:50:08 +0000

@owenmeany: The two facts you present regarding the lead singer seem contradictory to each other somehow.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:30:05 +0000

It's all about the lyrics, kids. The ladies love it 'cuz the singer is beggin' & pleadin' with his girl...

This is one of the 'best-testing' songs in KROQ's song library. It ain't ever going away.

And the singer is actually a REALLY cool guy. And a music journalist, too.

By: TheContrarian

TheContrarian — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:35:50 +0000

This is a terrifyingly bad song. I always thought Dramarama were a Bon Jovi cover band that stumbled across a Replacements album a week before recording this.

Maybe chicks secretly crave hunky(?!?!) Jersey dudes pretending to be flanneled DIY midwesterners.

I saw this video on VH Classic a week or so ago, then I re-watched "Mayor of Sunset Strip" with a friend. Bam. Dramarama right back in my face. Now this. Please make it stop!

By: mike a

mike a — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:32:56 +0000

I overdosed on this song back when WHTG had it in heavy rotation. Terribly overdramatic. I’ll give you anything you want, hundred-dollar bills…to never hear it again.

By: CaligulaHamSandwich

CaligulaHamSandwich — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:20:53 +0000

That is not at all what I would have guessed Dramarama to look like. (Hey, no cable in the 80s/90s, ok?) I pictured them as WAY more ABC-esque.

I'm a woman, I agree that KROQ's played the song way too much, but, yeah. It's okay.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:49:22 +0000

@defendme: I know it seems like it took forever for the Robyn album to come out over here, but it was only released in Sweden in 2005.

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:49:15 +0000

@MayhemintheHood: "...are cool,"

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:48:42 +0000

@defendme: What's funny is I thought that Idolator was 90% modern music, mostly pop stuff that I've never even heard of. Besides, the posts about older music cool, dude.

By: defendme

defendme — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:31:58 +0000

Why is 90% of the music that’s written about on Idolator stuff that was released before 1995? Dramarama are a band none of us would even give a crap about if only people didn’t listen to Rodney on the Roq in the ’80s.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:04:22 +0000

When you said Dramarama i was thinking of Bananarama. Color me confused!

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:48:49 +0000

@Dan Gibson: Mine was kind of regional too. I think it's more of a Socal/Southwest thing maybe.

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:48:08 +0000

I don't know...I know plenty of OLD So Cal women that like it, none my age(28) though, that I can think of.

I always thought dudes liked it more...any guys here that were 9 years old when they saw Nightmare on Elm Street 4 and got their first boner when the heroine starts to go crazy with nunchucks while this song was playing? My friends and I could sing nothing but this song for days afterward. Of course, it had to be accompanied by mimicing badass nunchuck moves.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:41:10 +0000

@LeighBlack: It's certainly possible my experience is entirely regional. Perhaps, I should amend my stereotype to "All Arizona women love "Anything, Anything".

By: LeighBlack

LeighBlack — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:27:17 +0000

Hmmm, I know plenty of women who love the Buckcherry cover. Not so many who are into the original version.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:21:48 +0000

@How do I say this ... THROWDINI!: I can't stand the song, and during the days when I used to listen to "all request lunch" shows on the radio, the song came up frequently and always picked by women. That's about as scientific as my research on the subject was, to be honest.

By: janine

janine — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:20:44 +0000

No.

By: saturn

saturn — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:19:23 +0000

My survey of me shows that 100% of women think this song is ok, but a bit dated-sounding. Also, 100% of women had no idea what songs Dramarama performed, and would not have been able to pull that name out of a hat if asked “who performed “anything, Anything”?”