Bananarama: how we made Robert De Niro's Waiting

‘De Niro knocked on the window of the bar, wearing a bobble hat and glasses. We just thought: who is that?’

Our plan was to do something like Grace Jones’s Pull Up to the Bumper. But somehow we ended up with a song based on a fantasy common to a lot of young girls: falling in love with a star, having their poster on their wall – and escaping into a world that’s so much easier to deal with than a real relationship. The line about walking in the park and “people are staring and following me” reflected an uglier stalking side to the fantasy. The date-rape notion was Siobhan’s idea, possibly from something we’d read in a newspaper.

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from Music | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2AWePuj

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