Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Love Is a Stranger (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger (Official Video)
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Lyrics
Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still can't
Get enough of the stuff
It's savage and it's cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
It's guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
What makes this one of the best songs ever? I'm glad you asked! 1. The haunting keyboard arrangement is hypnotizing. 2. The pulsing beat is subtle, but perfect. It adds, but doesn't distract. 3. Annie's icy cool, emotional vocals help create a mystique and enchantment. 4. The production has held up; they didn't fall into many of the 80s production traps that now sound dated. 5. And, perhaps most importantly, Annie's biting, acerbic dissection of love. She refused to play the role expected of women in music where they long for love or are lost without it or are complete with it. Nope! Not Annie! If you're still reading, you're truly a fan! 😄
ola! perfect answer! tons of kudos 4 you! 😊
And do not forget a goddess
Smiling ag how great your reasoning is 🙂
And at 2:23 Dave Stewart appears to have an Apple Watch and an iPhone a few decades before anyone else. But I agree such a great song. I love the way she does insanity - the "obsession" just gets more and more extreme as the song goes on.
Well said!
There is nothing on earth more beautiful, seductive, and more singularly terrifying than Annie Lennox's eyes in this video. That woman owned the era on a level nobody even understood at the time.
she is a fierce amazon. how I love her being. in concert it was ethereal.
Wow, well said.
🙌
If Blondie's Debbie Harry was the first New Wave Aphrodite then Annie Lennox was the second. She showed the way with "Sweet Dreams," though that had some Marlene Dietrich moves. " Love is a Stranger" Annie just let's all her sexy, insane introspection out and shows the world her dazzling eyes and devastating beauty. I don't think this song could have been written without their personal experience of romantic love. God bless Annie and Dave.
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It doesn't matter how many decades have passed. Listening to Eurythmics is just as fresh and just as powerful as it was in the 1980s! Bravo Annie and Dave. Bravo!
It's mesmerizing. Can't get enough
This 💯 so damn good!! Don't make music like this today...Genius - part of the Golden Age of Music which then died in the early 90's
Didn't know they had I phones in 1980 at around 2.16 into the video the future has been shown?😳
@@allen_pq
@@robertfraser8395 I know you're jesting but just out of interest, this track was released in 1982 (amazingly it didn't do well and was rereleased in '83) and the U.K.'s first mobile network launched in '85. So well ahead of its time. Presumably that was a TV remote.
2024 & still one of the best songs of all time.
No doubt! This video used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, but not as an adult 😍
Listening February 22nd
Listening on February 22nd 😊😊
Why do want to be so cliché to make this comment?
correct, i stated this years ago ;-)
Damn, man. This song is so far ahead of it's time that it still hasn't met itself wherever it exists in the future.
Best comment on UA-cam!
Ahead of its time? There was so much incredible Electronica back then its sickening. Today's synth stuff doesn't hold a candle.
Fuck. That is a great line. I am still searching for its end...
It was perfect t for it's time. Not sure what that even means?
hahahaaaa
Just a fucking masterpiece. Enough said.
Agreed..Annie is fascinating..
Here, here! Wow, this song was towards the end of their relationship 😥
fuckingright therepal.
Amen!!!!!
so true !
Released 40 years ago today, November 8, 1982. Still sounds as fresh and cutting edge as it did back then. Sure beats the crap that passes for "music" today.
Ok.
That was totally uncalled for.
😂😂
comments were better back then too
The song was re-released in 1983.
A great and scary video!
Ok boomer
I REALY LOVE THIS SONG,
@@GeraldVanvledder Me too. It's sooooo good!
aha så er du een blandt maaaaange, det er guf for øregangene
Congrats to Annie and Dave on being part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2022! So very well deserved.
Thank you for emphasising this 👌🏼
Definitely earned their place with many hits like this 😎
I love this masterpiece from Eurythmics but there are many others. Creative geniuses.
So happy that they are in. The Rock Hall needs Eurythmics, not the other way around!
Totally worthy of this honor.
One thing that’s overlooked from these 80’s videos is how good Annie’s acting was. She was really good.
@lucky leprechaun
Same
Yes!
@lucky leprechaun 7
@lucky leprechaun 9
I've always wondered why she didn't pursue more acting work, she'd SLAY any role given to her.
Something is an obsession love it
Sometimes - just sometimes - I forget how good Stewart and Lennox were.
Bangin'.
Annie nailed every look, every hairstyle they could dream up. She has an incredible beauty.
she was
Agree. I think should should've been a model as well. BEAUTIFUL!!
She takes my breath away 🤩
@@PoliteTia
Agree
Marilyn, blond was already rare but requested back in these days, what kind of steel is the car made of?
Annie Lennox; one of the coolest woman to have ever lived. Strong. Unique. And unashamed to express. A great role model today as well. A legend.
So true.
Very true
Very well put...
Örn Jónasson best reply ever for this song
@@KimPhilby203 Haha!
A very atmospheric song with an unusual rhythm. It's also impressive in 2024.
helt rigtigt bedømt, den er faktisk forførende
This song will be listened to and appreciated 100 years from now.
Sure hope so...
Forever
i agree. timeless.
SChweden zu nobelpreis zeiten scheint doch nicht so schlecht zu sein
It’s an absolute masterpiece
I like to give credit to Dave Stewart, as he created the surreal feel of the instrumentation that I loved as a child before I paid attention to the lyrics. Eurythmics is the peak of synthpop.
Annie's voice is incredible, and it syncs with the intensity of the electronica, but I also agree that Dave hit it out of the parks with his his skills on this one.
Yes, it's production quality that has never been equaled, and probably never will be. Even with today's technology and auto-tune etc... I think it would be very difficult to re-create the same atmosphere, and very unlikely the singing voice. Only Ultravox could get the same quality and lushness out of synths/rhythm boxes/FX etc...
♡Dave
@@BG-il2ym SO true. What I find amazing is that so many of Eurythmics' songs sound good with some bass or no bass. I sometimes listen to this song with the bass cranked all the way down or turned up to where I can baaarely feel the woofer vibrate. Another example, listen to Thorn in my side with the bass turned down then again turned up. I can't think of any other band where a significant number of their songs sound good with two different bass levels...
Yeah, as a kid Eurythmics songs felt like feelings put to music rather than just songs with words and notes
The many facets of Annie Lennox.....😀
I love it !!
Those hypnotic eyes, voice and the music, which could be said, ahead of its time.
Has to be one of the most underrated electronic tracks ever. So cool and unique. No other recording sounds like this :)
how is this underrated??
It is not underrated
Sorry just because it's not played now does not mean it was underrated. Was a huge song at the time. Loved it then and still love it now.
goodbye horses by q lazzaruz has a similar vibe
Dude! This song was a massive global hit back in the day!
This video still gives me goosebumps. It's so good it feels like the video existed first, & then they wrote the song to make sure we understood just how good the video is.
1983 sent us all into orbit around planet Annie.💖
MASTERPIECE !!! "...It's savage and it's cruel and..." brilliant ! ...and it's one of those songs you can turn all the way up to 10 because there isn't an overuse of too many instruments muddying the sound. Then Annie's intense, clear voice in your face.....
Genius pop song writers. They knew exactly what they were doing even with the arrangement and presentation. True entertainers.
This is one of their best songs. Still sounds great after all these years.
I'll give u that
Its my personal favorite.
Sarah C.
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Right,,, I had to go thru hell and back to rawk this diddy again!!!
Annie Lennox was always ahead of her time. A very powerful figure to us young girls at the time.
The American bible belt thought she was a man, goes to show how people can be brainwashed into what others want them to think.
Yes
Yep
And she sure looks so gosh darn cute in those wigs.
Powerful to us boys at the time also
I'm listening to this in pub right now.I love this song even more than I did in the 80s.Tnx eurythmics and Scotland from 🇮🇪
What a duo!!! The amazing tune aside, she's absolutely stunning, no matter what. 😍
She’s breathtakingly beautiful
Genius really. Holds up so damned well after all these years. This is their best track.
So true
It's their best track and their other tracks are unbelievable, you mean
It most certainly is!
So interesting.. I love the movie Victor Victoria. Not sure who influenced who with the wig and androgynous look?
@@berry.morgan you're right - their best track
her look from 2:28 and onward is so damn amazing, still loooooove it. the slicked back hair and suit and those eyes!
この曲大好きです。いいものはいつまでたっても色褪せない。
This is my favorite Eurythmics song. It is both haunting and beautiful. Annie Lennox has always been an amazing singer with a voice that exudes fantastic beauty and danger at the same time. Also, she has the most amazing silver eyes. I never seen anyone else with this color.
In person they are bright blue but the camera always makes them look different.
A cracking song. Love it. All the comments that people have made here are true and bang on. i agree with them all. But for me Thorn in My Side really does it. May be just the time when it hit my life?
A pop music masterpiece, is all I have to say. The 1980's were a golden age for pop art.
Yes the 80s music is still kicking it far better than the crud being made today
Oh come on. The 70's had TONS more good shit. In face, it gave birth to the "80's". Everything was already there: electronica, "new wave", progRock, disco, metal, etc. People are saying 80's 80's 80's because it's kewl to say. But take a long look -or listen I should say- to 70's music talent and you'll be blown away. I love the 80's stuff too, of course.
I didn't think that at the time, but now, boy the music was good in those days :)
Definitely, it was a real art back then.
michael wentworth .... Agreed ...SO glad I was " there " !!!!
I feel like it was a '60's do- over ... but " classier "
Best Eurythmics song in my opinion.
Annie Lennox"s voice is heaven on a stick on this track. Dave Stewarts arrangements are superb
Die schönsten Augen, die wundervolle Stimme, die wundervolle Annie
I am 69 years old.Those were the days .
rewatch they are time travelers...
I heard this song yesterday for the first time and I haven’t stopped, since. What a masterpiece!
No longer a stranger to you :)
@@galwaytribesman9289 haha good joke
You have no idea what more you missed from that time
@@galwaytribesman9289 haha right!
@@jlinkels it’s a shame, but glad that I’m catching up on that.
Annie has always been a powerhouse of a woman. Even at the time, I will never forget the impression she left on me with that cropped red hair. Simply no-one else was brave enough for that look, especially combined with the suit. Dave is a legend, always produces these timeless songs, so clever so original.
Oh my god!!! When I first saw the Sweet Dreams video on MTV as a 12 year old kid back in the 80’s my mind was absolutely BLOWN.
1000% agree with EVERYTHING! Cheers
@@rubygirl214
Same
Before red hair was a thing..
Well I think some of the Punks would say otherwise.
Who's still listening to this song in 2024? Answer, me!
Me
Eurythmics - good stuff!
All of us
We all do!
Appreciate this more in the present than I did back in the day.
I woke up with this song in my head today. I love it ❤️
Who's listening in 2021? When love really is a stranger!
Best love to have
I am
I am ...I like Eurythmics!
i do!
Seems there is no more love but only lust. Because it is based on sense gratification, therefore there is love between a boy and girl, and as soon as there is a little discrepancy, there is divorce. They are separated. Because the whole principle was on the basis of lust. So there is no love.
Annie's voice and style will be remembered for 100-years!
I agree💯
Wow she's unbelievably beautiful here
Outstanding lyrics:
It's savage and it's cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie
Outstanding 😎
I'm a prisioner of an impossible love. This song is my reality.
What a song...they don’t make them like this anymore.
Meaning in music is no more
I wish I could give this a 10000 thumbs up. Better than anything today
I can only give one thumbs up sadly. Yes bloody fantastic voice has Annie😀
Just want to get up and disco dance the night away but arthritis won't let me ha ha ha :0) it's savage and it's cruel getting old!!!
Awesome music a 80s bomb
No music of today can compete with that.
Thank you for letting me grow up with the music of the 80s. !!!
Todays top 40 music is garbage compared to this.
I feel inner-division even referring to todays music as Music....todays crap is more Muzak
The many faces of Annie Lennox!❤❤❤
Exactly! Psychos take on many roles because they can be anybody because they are noboy.
What a beautiful voice, matched to a beautiful woman.
She has such an amazing voice and sound. Her charisma is off the charts.
2024 and it's still rocking, after 41 years unbelievable song
Still remember the frst time, like all great love affairs.
FFS 41 YEARS?!!! it still has all of its power.
Magnifique merveilleux 🥰🥰🥰❤️🩹🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🎉🎉❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🩹
I don't know what they put in the water in 1983, but put it back in!
whos still loving and listening in 2020 ?
True CLASS❤️❤️❤️
October 2020 one of my favorite songs
Yup still here. Every song from this generation, my generation, was made to sing really loud while driving.
So true about an obsessive love? affair. Probably wouldn't call it love, but LUST!
i have ear all those songs since m 10 years in 1983 and listen it today not like the stinkt bull shit musics of today ,made on the corner of a table with in 10 minutes without any harmony,any inteligence,any color,any texture,any chord progression ...just make me vomit...
I remember when this video hit Mtv; I had already seen the Sweet Dreams video and hadn't fully recovered from that trauma when this was aired. My 15yo self suddenly became smitten with Annie in the blonde wig. However I didn't quite feel naughty enough for her in the brunette wig. Still love the song!
Those eyes and the expressions..the lyricks..it's still amazing..even after all those decades..
One of the very best tracks ever ..released..... ..the brilliant Eurythmics......so we'll written ..❤
To me the greatest aspect of all the Annie Lennox videos and songs is that no two are the same. Each one stands on its own as a masterpiece in my non-musical opinion. I don't claim to have a great ear for music but if anyone says I don't like the Eurythmics or more specifically Annie Lennox then you're just not listening to the full body of work. She re-creates herself with every song and every note. She is amazing in my opinion. Her and Stevie Nicks have probably saved my life more than once. Amazing women, amazing voices, amazing messages!
A cosmetic companys dream! Her skin is flawless & make up sits beautiful on it!. A chameleon..& a music genius along with Dave Stewart 🎉❤❤❤
Ya, at about 0:17 -> I'd be pretty helpless. A Devastating and brilliant woman, Annie is. She and Dave are one of the greatest dynamos of the '80's.
I was there when the video happened. You learned that love is savage and cruel and sleek and false and totally cool ... and she wants you.
“It’s savage & its cruel
& it shines like destruction…” gets me everytime.
This song is still phenomenal! 35 plus years. The video is so timeless. I Never get sick of it and Annie's eyes are gorgeous. True one of a kind artist!
It is timeless, such a clean sound & her stunning voice. Not many artists come close. Discovered Onuka (Ukrainian singer) produces very similar music. She is the Ukraine equivalent of Annie without a doubt. ua-cam.com/video/VIMo1UVEbMo/v-deo.html
1982, at 14 years old, I listen with wonder to this production, 2023, at 55 years old I still listen with just as much wonder to this technological gem.
Same here Stepan (I was born on 1968, too)!
just as I am at 54 years old:).
same same
Same as you , Indeed!.....and millenniial music sucks!
GD! The best music and poetry. This epitomizes 'it'.
Listening to this song in 2023, it hasn't lost its magic yet! Will resonate forever 🤗
Still enchanting after all these years
RemInds me of growing up and school in Scotland ..... haunting ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Her eyes... And voice... Thx Annie ! And sure thx Dave !
2023 and it's still fresh
Ikr
Videos such as these make me proud to have been living and breathing air as a person in his late teens in the early '80s. It is an exclusive club.
Spot on! Glorious times.
i was a baby. but i love these songs. grew up with them
@@willysbakery6878 me too✌
If you're interested, have a look at the music video playlists on my channel. 1982 and 1983 are my favourites, and they have the most videos at the moment. This is 1982 for example: ua-cam.com/play/PL6oCQqv2KW6XTK18evV5q9WAua3eshkiS.html
AGREED!!! I turned 10 in 1980. What an amazing decade.
The music and the video....ahead of their time much?
Annie Lennox gets almost all the attention, and understandably so. How can anyone *not* look at and listen to her.
But Dave Stewart absolutely hit it out of the park with this one. Somehow, this track epitomizes the music of 1982 while sounding like absolutely nothing else on the radio in 1982.
Gilt-edged, glamorous, and sleek by design . . .
One of the most sensual songs ever recorded. Just gushes with hedonism ✨
This song continues to mesmerize. One of the few from my youth that does.
Music is timeless to our being. It washes over us from head to toe. It reaches in and brushes our souls. Kind of like an obsession.
This is music!
1982. This song stills packs the dance floor late night on '80s nights in 2015...
+Cedric Herrera Still sounds as punchy as the day I first heard it. Utter class!
+Cedric Herrera packs the dance floor anywhere
+Cedric Herrera That's cool!!
Eurythmics are absolute class. The end
Just brilliant what more can you say... 😊
love it
One of the best song that had a huge influence in my life. This is Scottish TALENT. Annie Lennox FOREVER
..and Dave Stewart.
Absolute unadulterated art... Ladies and gentlemen they don't make em like this anymore. Pure sensuality No boundaries. Pushing the limits. Got to be one of the sexiest videos ever. Great time period
in music by far 👌
Absolutely….
Amen!!
Love from Bordeaux France. Annie est une femme qui fait du bien.
Ah bien. Hello from NZ😊
I was lucky enough to be a young (17-18)man living in England at this time. It was truly awesome for being an American from a small San Diego suburb to make that dream come true 💕🎉
I’ll never forget watching this late one Saturday night in 1983 with my Mom. She became so uncomfortable watching this video & said they were perverts and degenerates. I’ve loved Annie Lennox ever since.
@Truth Reigns Forever I wonder how he would react to seeing Rockbitch... 😂
I wonder what she would have thought of Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur" LOL
@MaGuffintop I always loved the song, but never saw the video until a couple of years ago. Don't care for it, but heard that MTV here only played it late at night. Can't confirm that, though, I worked nights from 84-89 so I only watched MTV during the day
@MaGuffintop I still have all my Duran Duran CDs. Looking back, they were much more talented than I realized back then. Simon Le Bon's voice held out amazing for decades unlike David Gahan from Depeche Mode. Dave ruined his voice from smoking and drugs. He wrecked his most important asset.
Some MTV videos were definitely known for their shock value but would your mother have felt that way watching and listening to "Here Comes the Rain Again"? Still Eurythmics' most beautiful song. My mother hated Boy George.
A true masterpiece of the 80's and obviously one of their best songs if it's not THE BEST. The music is hypnotic and sublime, the video is dark, intense and twisted and Annie Lennox is sultry and at her best both vocally and aesthetically
Zachariah Darko
I love your comment
love your comment Zachariah Darko
brilliant synopsis of a Eurythmics' Classic
Awesome comment!
Great song. Love it ❤
Pure brilliance says it all
A song ahead of its time and still sounds so fresh and current a true masterpiece and there best track
Filomena told me where to find it
Please do not add comments if you cannot quite grasp the Queen's English - 'their best tracks'.
Colin I agree!!! I’ve been a huge Eurythmics fan since their beginnings and this is still my favorite track.
She might have the greatest voice ever.
I don't feel it was ahead of its time, really. It's clearly built on the legacy of Kraftwerk and Jean-Michel Jarre. Cool song, nevertheless.
my teenage years were spent listening to this incredible woman sing, now in my 50's and i still cant get enough of her vocals.
She was with out doubt the most talented performer of her time.
The most beautiful woman i'd ever seen growing up.
Well said!
Annie can still sing at her piano. I follow her on Instagram.
My pre teen years were spent listening to the Eurythmics, I saved my money for their cassette albums. A female teacher even recorded an album for me as I designed a record cover in a class project. Xx
One of the best '80s songs! ❤
Ahead of time this band👀✨
2025 and it's still awesome.
Ahead of the curve 😂
My Fave Eurythmics Song!
A masterpiece by The Eurythmics.
Worthy to be deemed a masterpiece. Genius programming this one. Just so much going on here.
Agreed. Musically, there is so much depth, lyrically, if you can relate, is chilling, and the video, visually is a progression from one who is hopeful in love to someone who burned out from the drug called love.
As a piece of art, this song is exceptional.
It really is. It's truly timeless.
It is really is... and on all levels.
This is such an intriguing video. It's a masterpiece. A work of art. It goes perfectly with the song. Such a haunting song that could only be mastered by Annie Lennox herself♥
When she warns you without warning you ❤
Mönchengladbach,was ne tolle Interpretin,Hut ab vor dieser tollen,,Stimme und Frau"❤