{"id":20753,"date":"2013-12-23T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=20753"},"modified":"2013-12-22T00:11:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T05:11:29","slug":"we-gonna-party-like-its-your-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/we-gonna-party-like-its-your-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Gonna Party Like It&#8217;s Your Birthday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be drowning my sorrows in Champagne tonight because it is, indeed, my birthday. As I&#8217;ve previously noted, I don&#8217;t think birthdays are that much fun anymore, even though they&#8217;re better than the alternative.\u00a0 I was much more thrilled by them when this photo was taken &#8230; on Dec. 23, 1984, when I turned 17.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20754\" alt=\"earrings80s.jpg 1\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/earrings80s.jpg-1.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/earrings80s.jpg-1.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/earrings80s.jpg-1-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I dressed in style to celebrate the big day. My hair was teased, my trademark Liza-worthy eyeliner was in place, and a single beaded earring was worn. Under the earring, you can see a rare shot of the blonde, braided &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rattail_%28haircut%29\" target=\"_blank\">tail<\/a>&#8221; that I sported for a couple of years. It looks like I adorned it with a lavender ribbon to match the earring. Interestingly, for years I assumed that my hair had been inspired by Aimee Mann&#8217;s even-more awesome braided tail in &#8216;Til Tuesday&#8217;s &#8220;Voices Carry&#8221; video, but now that I look it up, it turns out that video wasn&#8217;t released until 1985.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uejh-bHa4To\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Memory is a tricky thing, isn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s why I won&#8217;t swear that the dress was from Fiorucci, even though I think it might have been.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voices_Carry_%28song%29\" target=\"_blank\">According to the sometimes reliable Wikipedia<\/a> and other websites, the song &#8220;Voices Carry&#8221; was originally addressed to a woman, but studio executives thought it would be more appealing if it was about an abusive boyfriend. Yep, that&#8217;s always more palatable. Anyway, I like Aimee Mann. Last year, she did a funny shot-for-shot remake of &#8220;Voices Carry&#8221; for her song &#8220;Labrador.&#8221; Check that out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/18\/aimee-mans-labrador-video-shot-for-shot-voices-carry-remake_n_1894489.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Guess which wig she puts on instead of the black bob of the original video? I also came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimeemanninprint.com\/2001\/wp021801.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2001 interview she did with the Washington Post<\/a> in which she spoke about her willingness to take on the music industry. She said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m one of the few people fed up enough to start talking about the industry in really honest terms. Which is pretty dangerous. It is really dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is how she sees it: If you&#8217;re rich and famous, like, say, George Michael, and you complain about the industry, then it&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh, stop whining, you big rock star.&#8217; As if that&#8217;s a really big perk. And if you&#8217;re small, independent and you rail against the industry, then you&#8217;re labeled a sore loser. Sour grapes. &#8216;No one liked your record. Get over it.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tell it like it is, Aimee Mann!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/age\" target=\"_blank\">Oh, and in case you&#8217;re having trouble with the math, I&#8217;m 46<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be drowning my sorrows in Champagne tonight because it is, indeed, my birthday. As I&#8217;ve previously noted, I don&#8217;t think birthdays are that much fun anymore, even though they&#8217;re better than the alternative.\u00a0 I was much more thrilled by them when this photo was taken &#8230; on Dec. 23, 1984, when I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/we-gonna-party-like-its-your-birthday\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20754,"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":[642,52,42,550],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-80s-style","8":"category-birthdays","9":"category-music","10":"category-vintage-wendyb-photos","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753","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=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20787,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions\/20787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}