BYH help needed - stat! Please explain Laura Branigan & "Self Control"

I heard that song on the radio last night and wanted to look up the video on youtube.

Overtly sexual video, yet Branigan has this dorky, but very sexy persona. Oddly appealing. She has only two songs I know of, this and "Gloria", and she seems "uncool", but I am fascinated by her. I know she died several years ago. She had a spectacular singing voice, but got stuck with kind of goofball songs, so she never became a star.

What was her deal? Throw us your knowledge.

 

Wow, look at this one

belt it while you shake those hips

 

I think it's time for Bubbler to dissect some more pop culture.

 

She was smoking hot. She was the one girl in high school who was too cool even for the cheerleader/shitty-kitty set, and was dating 24 year old guys with motorcyles.
I remembered she died. Can't remember the cause. Too bad. She'd still be hot.

 

Aneurysm

 

'dexter - come on over and join us on the Laura Brannigan discussion forum.

I've been a member for a few years:

http://laurabraniganonline.aimoo.com/

 

Thanks for the heads up. The
"Compare and contrast Laura and William C. Rhoden" thread's a hoot.

 

Damnit sorry I missed this.

My favorite bits of Laura Branigan trivia: "Gloria" set the pre-Soundscan record, I believe, for most weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was on there close to a year.

She also sang the national anthem at the NHL All-Star Game at Nassau Coliseum in the early '80s and left every red-blooded male in the audience panting.

That Self-Control video was and is freaky. My favorite song of hers was Solitaire. And Hondo is right about something else: She was indeed smoking hot. Lousy--and sudden--way to go.

 

A bit zaftig, making her more appealing in my book. Heavily engineered voice, but her skill did come through, tho the material was Eurotrash lightweight. Shattered Glass was another hot song/video (you kinda had to look at all her stuff as song/video).

 

An absolute goddess. Actual curves with a girl-next-door face and persona -- wow. Simply wow.

If I remember right from her obituary, her husband died of a heart attack in his 40s and she led a fairly depressing life afterward -- almost reclusive.

Dying of an aneurysm at 47. No way for anyone to go.

 

I'd never seen that video before, but if I'm going to watch "Eyes Wide Shut" again I might as well do it with Laura Brannigan as opposed to Tom and Nicole.