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This is me singing "Don't Blame Me" by Emilie Autumn. I was sick with a cold and my friend came to visit. So we started singing and recording things, so this is my stupid attempt at singing an Emilie Autumn song. I say something to my friend in the beginning and end of the video because she was fast and then slow with the record button. Oh, well. My voice gives out at the end (if you didn't already notice).
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"Rapture" is a single by Blondie. It was released in January 1981, during the height of the band's success, and became one of the first substantial hit singles to involve rap music, and the first rap-influenced single to reach number one on the US Billboard Chart. It was the second and final song to be released from the band's 1980 album Autoamerican, the first being "The Tide Is High", which had topped the chart in the US and UK. "Rapture" went on to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and number five in the UK singles chart. The B-side was "Walk Like Me", also from Autoamerican.Following the release of "Rapture" Blondie took a hiatus from recording and touring. The autumn of 1981 saw the release of Debbie Harry's first solo single, "Backfired" and the album Koo Koo, co-written and produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of Chic - the band whose track "Good Times" inspired Harry and Chris Stein to write "Rapture"."Rapture" was a combination of New Wave pop, funk, jazz and rap music, with the rap section forming an extended coda. While it was not the first single involving rap to be successful, it was the first to top the charts. The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight", a straightforward rap track also based on Chic's "Good Times", and obviously also an inspiration for "Rapture", reached #36 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart, and went gold. Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks" was released in 1980, and became the second rap single to be certified gold. The lyrics of "Rapture" included references to hip-hop pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash.Debuting in August, 1981, this music video was the first rap video ever broadcast on MTV.[1] Set in the Upper East Side, the "Man from Mars" or "voodoo god" (dancer William Barnes in the white suit and top hat) is the introductory and central figure. Barnes also choreographed the piece.[2] The final shot is a one-take scene of Deborah Harry dancing along the street, passing by graffiti artists, Uncle Sam, a Native American and a goat. Fab Five Freddy and graffiti artists Lee Quinones and Jean-Michel Basquiat make cameo appearances. Basquiat was hired when Grandmaster Flash did not show for the filming. [info courtesy: wikipedia.org]
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