May 1989 Pop Culture: Matthew, Deborah & Breathe

Mar 29, 2022, 09:00 AM

The full complement of pop culture coverage returns for Sassy's May 1989 issue, PHEW. Following a What Now full of shrug items that read a lot like placeholders (what fell out?!), we're on to a very effusive Watch It, featuring Chances Are in the HIT slot and four-star reviews for Sing (not the one with animated animals) and Heathers. Listen Up vibes with Robyn Hitchcock and Elvis Costello's latest, Spike, but not even resident headbanger Laura could get on board with Skid Row's self-titled album. Matthew Sweet is our One To Watch, and then we close up with a profile of a very buttoned-up Debbie "Deborah" Gibson, and a set visit to a video remake (?) by Breathe. No need to raise your Hands To Heaven and pray for it: our latest episode is right here!

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TOPICS

๐ŸŽง It Is May 1989

๐ŸŽง What Now

๐ŸŽง Watch It

๐ŸŽง Listen Up

๐ŸŽง One To Watch: Matthew Sweet

๐ŸŽง Feature: How Come Iโ€™m Not Deborah Gibson?

๐ŸŽง Feature: How Breathe Made Their Favorite Video

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

NOTES

โš ๏ธ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

๐Ÿ“”ย "Naff" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary

๐Ÿ‘šย NafNaf on Poshmark

๐Ÿ‘–ย NafNaf on Etsy

๐Ÿปย "Fur -- The Real Thing -- in Disguise" at the LATimes.com

๐Ÿค‘ย "Blass Act: Dog Gets 100G From $70M Estate" at NYPost.com

๐Ÿฆฎย Bill Blass with Barnaby, his dog

๐Ÿ—ฃย Trey Ames in September 1988's What He Said

๐Ÿฌย The series premiere of Dolphin Cove on YouTube

๐ŸŽžย Sing (1989) on YouTube

๐Ÿ’ฃย Heathers on Amazon Prime Video

๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธย The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window trailer on YouTube

๐ŸŽฐย The Fruit Machine, aka Wonderland, on Tubi

โ˜๏ธย Dream A Little Dream on Tubi

๐ŸŽธย Elvis Costello's Unfaithful Music And Disappearing Ink at Vroman's Bookstore

๐Ÿง ย Skid Row's "I Remember You" video on YouTube

๐Ÿšจย Skid Row's "18 And Life" video on YouTube

๐ŸŽงย The May 1989 playlist on Apple Music

๐Ÿฌย Matthew Sweet in March 1989's Listen Up

๐Ÿ‘‚ย The Wikipedia entry on absolute/perfect pitch

๐Ÿ™ย Breathe's "Hands To Heaven" video on YouTube

๐Ÿคฅย Breathe's original "Don't Tell Me Lies" on YouTube

๐Ÿฅธย The "Don't Tell Me Lies" video remake on YouTube

๐Ÿ“ฐย Tara's post on The CW's Dynasty and other throwback network primetime soaps, at Decider