Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not …<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/p>\nYou’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker<\/a> (born Robert Higginbotham).<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt’s been covered hundreds of times, so you may be more familiar with Stevie Wonder’s version …<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n… or the Rolling Stones’s version.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIn the song, Tommy addresses the gal he’s going out with that night, encouraging her to put on her red dress, high-heel sneakers and “wig-hat.”<\/a> He also tells her to bring along a pair of boxing gloves in case there’s a fight. Best to be prepared for that sort of thing, I guess.<\/p>\nWhat I didn’t know until my Huffington Post story ran was that a singer named Sugar Pie DeSanto answered Tommy Tucker’s song with one called “Slip-In Mules.” She says her red dress is at the cleaners, and that she’ll be wearing low-heel, slip-in mules. She sings:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/em><\/p>\nShe doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker<\/a> (born Robert Higginbotham).<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt’s been covered hundreds of times, so you may be more familiar with Stevie Wonder’s version …<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n… or the Rolling Stones’s version.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIn the song, Tommy addresses the gal he’s going out with that night, encouraging her to put on her red dress, high-heel sneakers and “wig-hat.”<\/a> He also tells her to bring along a pair of boxing gloves in case there’s a fight. Best to be prepared for that sort of thing, I guess.<\/p>\nWhat I didn’t know until my Huffington Post story ran was that a singer named Sugar Pie DeSanto answered Tommy Tucker’s song with one called “Slip-In Mules.” She says her red dress is at the cleaners, and that she’ll be wearing low-heel, slip-in mules. She sings:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/em><\/p>\nShe doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker<\/a> (born Robert Higginbotham).<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt’s been covered hundreds of times, so you may be more familiar with Stevie Wonder’s version …<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n… or the Rolling Stones’s version.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIn the song, Tommy addresses the gal he’s going out with that night, encouraging her to put on her red dress, high-heel sneakers and “wig-hat.”<\/a> He also tells her to bring along a pair of boxing gloves in case there’s a fight. Best to be prepared for that sort of thing, I guess.<\/p>\nWhat I didn’t know until my Huffington Post story ran was that a singer named Sugar Pie DeSanto answered Tommy Tucker’s song with one called “Slip-In Mules.” She says her red dress is at the cleaners, and that she’ll be wearing low-heel, slip-in mules. She sings:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/em><\/p>\nShe doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It’s been covered hundreds of times, so you may be more familiar with Stevie Wonder’s version …<\/p>\n
… or the Rolling Stones’s version.<\/p>\n
In the song, Tommy addresses the gal he’s going out with that night, encouraging her to put on her red dress, high-heel sneakers and “wig-hat.”<\/a> He also tells her to bring along a pair of boxing gloves in case there’s a fight. Best to be prepared for that sort of thing, I guess.<\/p>\nWhat I didn’t know until my Huffington Post story ran was that a singer named Sugar Pie DeSanto answered Tommy Tucker’s song with one called “Slip-In Mules.” She says her red dress is at the cleaners, and that she’ll be wearing low-heel, slip-in mules. She sings:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/em><\/p>\nShe doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
What I didn’t know until my Huffington Post story ran was that a singer named Sugar Pie DeSanto answered Tommy Tucker’s song with one called “Slip-In Mules.” She says her red dress is at the cleaners, and that she’ll be wearing low-heel, slip-in mules. She sings:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/em><\/p>\nShe doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/em><\/p>\nShe doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Ain’t wearing no high-heel sneaker\nCause they hurt my toes so bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/em><\/p>\n
She doesn’t say how she feels about wig-hats and boxing gloves. Take a listen.<\/p>\n
I’ve got to thank a Huffington Post commenter who calls herself “notconvincedgranny” for bringing Sugar Pie’s song to my attention. I haven’t been so excited about a response song since the ’80s, when UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne” started hip-hop’s Roxanne Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Roxanne, Roxanne” accused a girl of being stuck-up<\/a> because she wasn’t interested in the rappers. I can’t believe she didn’t fall for their awesome outfits. Tight red pants were the hotness back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThe first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nThat was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The first response was “Roxanne’s Revenge.”<\/p>\n
That was followed by “The Real Roxanne<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nIt didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It didn’t stop there. Wikipedia has a list of additional Roxanne songs<\/a>. The Police’s “Roxanne” — about a prostitute — has nothing to do with this series. The Police’s song came out in 1978, years before the UTFO release.<\/p>\n<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nAs far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\nRead More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
As far as I know, Roxanne the prostitute never replied to The Police in musical fashion, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments!\n <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you read my story on wedge sneakers in the Huffington Post’s Stylelist section yesterday? If not … CLICK HERE. You’ll see that at the end, I refer to a 1964 blues song, “Hi-Heel Sneakers,” as I’ve done before when writing about wedge sneakers. The song was written and first recorded by Tommy Tucker (born…<\/p>\n
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