Chrissie Amphlett sadly died from breast cancer. As I understand it, this iconic song has become synonymous with breast cancer awareness in her native Australia. Remember girls AND guys to regularly check yourself for suspicious lumps and to please see a doctor if there is anything amiss! Stay safe out there! Much love!
Chrissie played Judy Garland in the Australian tour of Boy From Oz with Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen. Chrissie played Garland BRILLIANTLY. 100% perfection.
Love the Divinyls! 🇦🇺🎸🥁 You know how you felt listening to this, Empress? That's how us many of us Aussies feel about this period of Australian/New Zealand pop-rock ♡
@@popcornphilosopher I'm sure that you know the story of how the songwriters met Madonna at her manager Freddy DeMann's birthday party in L.A. in 89 while she was dating Warren Beatty. Stephen Bray was there and introduced them to her by saying "This is Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. They wrote your number one song Like a Virgin." Then Warren Beatty started laughing. Billy said to her "I've always wanted to meet you and I finally got to meet you." Madonna responded by saying "Well now you did." And she and Warren walked away. Billy tells this story to the Professor of Rock in his UA-cam video.
Ahh been waiting for a Divinyls reaction from you. Divinyls were an Australian band and had been around for about 10 years already before this song was a huge hit. Before that, they were basically only popular in Australia. The singer Chrissy Amphlett was an amazing performer and a true original.
Naughty lyrics aside, this is just a damn good catchy pop song. Puts me in a happy mood. Loved it ever since I was a kid. Didn’t understand the meaning at the time of course.
🙌❤️🔥 This song was a worldwide SMASH hit in 1990. It’s been covered a lot, and referenced endlessly in popular culture, including iconic SNL sketch Waynes World. I knew you’d enjoy it, partly because of the provocative lyrics but mainly because it’s an irresistibly well formed song! A real jukebox crowd pleaser and a true classic. Divinyls are a LEGENDARY Australian band with roots going right back to the 70s. Their early rock songs (the biggest hits being Back To The Wall, Science Fiction, Only Lonely) are beyond catchy, and lead singer and co-writer Chrissy Amphlett is the real deal, a tough girl with a powerful husky, sexy rock voice who made her way in the rough pub gigging scene in Sydney. Like Angus Young from another legendary Aussie rock band AC-DC, Chrissy would perform onstage in a school uniform to ramp up the rebel youth image. She came up in a harsh, male dominated scene and stood her ground like few others. Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, songwriters who wrote Like A virgin (another song that parents would find their kids singing and be like 😨) and also So Emotional for Whitney, Eternal Flame for The Bangles, True Colors for Cyndi… VERY talented writers… Had written the opening lines and chorus of I Touch Myself and when Chrissy Amphlett heard that fraction she decided that she and her band mate Mark McEntee wouldn’t wait for the songwriting team to finish it. Divinyls had a strong history of writing their own hits, so they instead collaborated with the songwriters and wrote it together. Glad they did because it could’ve gone too poppy but, thanks to their heavy involvement, the structure and vibe of the song are very much in keeping with the band’s well established sound. Chrissy was always a stridently feminist figure, in the 3rd Wave Feminism sense of being very sex positive and using her sex appeal as part of her power, and one incredibly moving part of her story is that she developed Multiple Sclerosis late in life, and when she also got breast cancer she couldn’t receive chemo or radiation treatments for it due to her MS. She passed away in 2013 at just 53 years old. After her passing, her family started a breast cancer awareness campaign called I Touch Myself, transforming this positive song about self pleasuring into an anthem encouraging women to self-examine to check for any irregularities so they could catch breast cancer in time to treat it. The song has been performed as a ballad by multiple Australian female vocalists as a breast cancer research fundraiser, and advertising and production companies donate their talent and resources to make very moving ads to promote awareness, always featuring the song. This is all very close to my heart because I worked on one of the ad campaigns, and also because my mother had MS 💔 Amazing that a fun, provocative and revolutionary song about self love has had a much bigger and more life changing impact. Chrissy is an absolute icon in Australia, and her work is highly respected across the world. There’s even a laneway in Melbourne named after her in remembrance of what an all round legend she was.
This was the first CD I ever purchased and it was fire throughout the entire album! Every song was hot and every purr by Chrissie was on point… Rest in peace, Chrissie.
the late Chrissie amphett Fought valiant battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis checked out for that great gig in the sky 2013 almost 10 years ago. One of the best one hit wonders of the early '90s What happened to the Olivia concert did they pull it down on you?
I love your reaction to this video because your reaction is exactly what it should be! I remember when this song first came out I was like this song is badass, and will forever be badass
Love love love ❤️ the Divinyls and Chrissie Amphlett, now dearly departed RIP. The video is a killer too. Just so fabulous that a woman of a certain age was so gutsy and just put it all out there. Particularly at the time as well….it’s always so controversial for a woman…pfft F em lol And Empress mouthing the words during the song at the chorus…did I see you stop a couple time just before ‘I touch myself’ 🤣
Whoo! I remember when this song came out in 1990 and it was so sensuous and empowering. I believe Madonna opened the door to songs like this for women. It’s true it’s a self love song 🎶 .I love Chrissie’s voice. I wish we had more from her but she sadly died from breast cancer. Great reaction!
Nah, nothing to do with Madonna. Divinyls had been around years before this. This band played all types of songs and great live rock band. Wish I had seen them live. Songs like Pleasure and Pain, by them from earlier in 80's were great tracks. Most of people in USA seem to only know of them from this track as the video to go with it probably played on MTV thousands of times over as by the change of the decade music videos were massive for music then. Not their best song but a song the masses seem to know about more because of the video on MTV. Sleeping Beauty, Boys in Town, Pleasure and Pain were great songs by the band from earlier in 80's. Leader singer was very theatrical. Like a female version of Mick Jagger for a rock band as a performer.
I love this song!! Didn't know you had reacted to it Empress, but it's cool - I think Aussies and Scots, like me, have the same cheeky vibe lol! RIP Chrissie xx
My favorite Divinyls song is "Back to the wall". And it's actually one of my favorite songs in the world. I heard it for the first time in the movie A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master, and it never left my head.
This song has the same writers as "Like a Virgin". I can def feel the same energy in the lyrics! And the breakdown is def giving me the same feel as the "whoa" 's part too!
....Oh, I LOVE when Miss Empress covers those 'spicy' tunes, she gets so EMBARRASSED'!! ...ha-HAA!! ...I'm too pooped to give Divinyls trivia, so lets shoot back to Spring 1991, when they went to #4 Pop... (cont.) 10. I Wanna S-x You Up - Color Me Badd 9. More Than Words - Extreme 8. I Don't Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey (....VOCAL-LLLLLLLLLS!!) ; ) 7. Baby Baby - Amy Grant 6. Joyride - Roxette 5. Rhythm Of My Heart - Rod Stewart 4. ***I Touch Myself*** - DiVinyls 3. Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll) - C+C Music Factory 2. Touch Me (All Night Long) - Cathy Dennis 1. I Like The Way (The Kissing Game) - Hi Five ....Lead Singer Christina Amphlett died from breast cancer, and they were on their EIGHTH Album, before finally getting a hit....stick to your Dreams, Kids.....
Ha! Well She Bop was a little more nuanced, we didn't know what that meant until we were older. But we ALL knew what I Touch Myself meant, even as a 10-year old! Love it.
Honestly, it’s a big theme in 80s songs. And think about the way Madonna, Michael , and Prince performed. A lot is self love going on there too. Safe sex was a movement’s back then and was mostly defined by talking openly about contraception. The “grown ups” and conservatives I guess opposed that by promoting abstinence only. Masturbation fell somewhere in between and was definitively still the most taboo thing to discuss. The surgeon general made a statement that masturbation was safe and healthy around this time and the President fired her for it immediately!
The only problem with this song is that the cowbell is only in the guitar mini-solo section. It should be in the background throughout the song. In other words... It needs more cowbell.
If this made you blush..Then wait until you react to Chris Isaak, ,Wicked Games...Its on your to do list.. A Impressionist has requested it.. Take Heed ,
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Chrissie Amphlett sadly died from breast cancer. As I understand it, this iconic song has become synonymous with breast cancer awareness in her native Australia. Remember girls AND guys to regularly check yourself for suspicious lumps and to please see a doctor if there is anything amiss! Stay safe out there! Much love!
All the love in the world to you 💖 thank you for sharing this!!
Chrissie played Judy Garland in the Australian tour of Boy From Oz with Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen. Chrissie played Garland BRILLIANTLY. 100% perfection.
I miss her. Such an amazing talent ☺️
"When I feel down I want you above me" ?!? Such a good lyric! I haven't listened to this song in years. I forgot how great it is!
Love the Divinyls! 🇦🇺🎸🥁
You know how you felt listening to this, Empress? That's how us many of us Aussies feel about this period of Australian/New Zealand pop-rock ♡
😂Well said!
Madonna link. Co-written by the same team that wrote “Like A Virgin” !
Ok didn't know this 👍
Was just about to say this
Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly!
@@dalee72 yeah I know they’re such great songwriters! I’m actually working on a video about them.
@@popcornphilosopher I'm sure that you know the story of how the songwriters met Madonna at her manager Freddy DeMann's birthday party in L.A. in 89 while she was dating Warren Beatty. Stephen Bray was there and introduced them to her by saying "This is Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. They wrote your number one song Like a Virgin." Then Warren Beatty started laughing. Billy said to her "I've always wanted to meet you and I finally got to meet you." Madonna responded by saying "Well now you did." And she and Warren walked away. Billy tells this story to the Professor of Rock in his UA-cam video.
Ahh been waiting for a Divinyls reaction from you. Divinyls were an Australian band and had been around for about 10 years already before this song was a huge hit. Before that, they were basically only popular in Australia. The singer Chrissy Amphlett was an amazing performer and a true original.
wow sooo good!
Great vocals and her look in the video was 🔥 This played on radio for years.
Naughty lyrics aside, this is just a damn good catchy pop song. Puts me in a happy mood. Loved it ever since I was a kid. Didn’t understand the meaning at the time of course.
😂🔥
🙌❤️🔥 This song was a worldwide SMASH hit in 1990. It’s been covered a lot, and referenced endlessly in popular culture, including iconic SNL sketch Waynes World. I knew you’d enjoy it, partly because of the provocative lyrics but mainly because it’s an irresistibly well formed song! A real jukebox crowd pleaser and a true classic.
Divinyls are a LEGENDARY Australian band with roots going right back to the 70s. Their early rock songs (the biggest hits being Back To The Wall, Science Fiction, Only Lonely) are beyond catchy, and lead singer and co-writer Chrissy Amphlett is the real deal, a tough girl with a powerful husky, sexy rock voice who made her way in the rough pub gigging scene in Sydney. Like Angus Young from another legendary Aussie rock band AC-DC, Chrissy would perform onstage in a school uniform to ramp up the rebel youth image. She came up in a harsh, male dominated scene and stood her ground like few others.
Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg, songwriters who wrote Like A virgin (another song that parents would find their kids singing and be like 😨) and also So Emotional for Whitney, Eternal Flame for The Bangles, True Colors for Cyndi… VERY talented writers… Had written the opening lines and chorus of I Touch Myself and when Chrissy Amphlett heard that fraction she decided that she and her band mate Mark McEntee wouldn’t wait for the songwriting team to finish it. Divinyls had a strong history of writing their own hits, so they instead collaborated with the songwriters and wrote it together. Glad they did because it could’ve gone too poppy but, thanks to their heavy involvement, the structure and vibe of the song are very much in keeping with the band’s well established sound.
Chrissy was always a stridently feminist figure, in the 3rd Wave Feminism sense of being very sex positive and using her sex appeal as part of her power, and one incredibly moving part of her story is that she developed Multiple Sclerosis late in life, and when she also got breast cancer she couldn’t receive chemo or radiation treatments for it due to her MS. She passed away in 2013 at just 53 years old. After her passing, her family started a breast cancer awareness campaign called I Touch Myself, transforming this positive song about self pleasuring into an anthem encouraging women to self-examine to check for any irregularities so they could catch breast cancer in time to treat it. The song has been performed as a ballad by multiple Australian female vocalists as a breast cancer research fundraiser, and advertising and production companies donate their talent and resources to make very moving ads to promote awareness, always featuring the song. This is all very close to my heart because I worked on one of the ad campaigns, and also because my mother had MS 💔
Amazing that a fun, provocative and revolutionary song about self love has had a much bigger and more life changing impact. Chrissy is an absolute icon in Australia, and her work is highly respected across the world. There’s even a laneway in Melbourne named after her in remembrance of what an all round legend she was.
Back to the Wall is played in a cool scene in A Nightmare on Elm St Part 4: The Dream Master.
This was the first CD I ever purchased and it was fire throughout the entire album! Every song was hot and every purr by Chrissie was on point… Rest in peace, Chrissie.
Interesting ‼️
You need to SEE this singer, Chrissy Amphlett IN ACTION.... LIVE....she's incredible !!! Do yourself a favour and watch a LIVE PERFORMANCE !
the late Chrissie amphett
Fought valiant battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis checked out for that great gig in the sky 2013 almost 10 years ago.
One of the best one hit wonders of the early '90s
What happened to the Olivia concert did they pull it down on you?
I love your reaction to this video because your reaction is exactly what it should be! I remember when this song first came out I was like this song is badass, and will forever be badass
thanks!!!
Love love love ❤️ the Divinyls and Chrissie Amphlett, now dearly departed RIP. The video is a killer too. Just so fabulous that a woman of a certain age was so gutsy and just put it all out there. Particularly at the time as well….it’s always so controversial for a woman…pfft F em lol
And Empress mouthing the words during the song at the chorus…did I see you stop a couple time just before ‘I touch myself’ 🤣
I remember that some DJs would always introduce the song without saying the title, for example "Here are Divinyls"
😂 wow
Whoo! I remember when this song came out in 1990 and it was so sensuous and empowering. I believe Madonna opened the door to songs like this for women. It’s true it’s a self love song 🎶 .I love Chrissie’s voice. I wish we had more from her but she sadly died from breast cancer.
Great reaction!
Nah, nothing to do with Madonna. Divinyls had been around years before this. This band played all types of songs and great live rock band. Wish I had seen them live. Songs like Pleasure and Pain, by them from earlier in 80's were great tracks. Most of people in USA seem to only know of them from this track as the video to go with it probably played on MTV thousands of times over as by the change of the decade music videos were massive for music then. Not their best song but a song the masses seem to know about more because of the video on MTV.
Sleeping Beauty, Boys in Town, Pleasure and Pain were great songs by the band from earlier in 80's.
Leader singer was very theatrical. Like a female version of Mick Jagger for a rock band as a performer.
I love this song!! Didn't know you had reacted to it Empress, but it's cool - I think Aussies and Scots, like me, have the same cheeky vibe lol! RIP Chrissie xx
She said she is not ashamed of her game, at all. 😂🔥🔥bop.
Loovvveeee this song. I remember when it came out it was a huge hit.
Still holds up.
Sounds like a song Ryan Reynolds hears a lot
😂
My favorite Divinyls song is "Back to the wall". And it's actually one of my favorite songs in the world. I heard it for the first time in the movie A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master, and it never left my head.
Love your personality and dancing 💃
Thank u‼️🥰
Cool! I haven't heard this one in a long while. Top five hit in the US in 1991. Very catchy tune.
Divinyls are a top band........Chrissy such an interesting vocalist
Aussie Aussie Aussie 🌹
This song has the same writers as "Like a Virgin". I can def feel the same energy in the lyrics! And the breakdown is def giving me the same feel as the "whoa" 's part too!
Damn the nostalgia hit deep
pleanty of She bopin in the 80s
This song and music video were released in November 90.
You should react to and check out the official music video.
Oh this will be fun, let’s get to it 😉
Tweet, Oops... Oh my
....Oh, I LOVE when Miss Empress covers those 'spicy' tunes, she gets so EMBARRASSED'!! ...ha-HAA!! ...I'm too pooped to give Divinyls trivia, so lets shoot back to Spring 1991, when they went to #4 Pop... (cont.)
10. I Wanna S-x You Up - Color Me Badd
9. More Than Words - Extreme
8. I Don't Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey (....VOCAL-LLLLLLLLLS!!) ; )
7. Baby Baby - Amy Grant
6. Joyride - Roxette
5. Rhythm Of My Heart - Rod Stewart
4. ***I Touch Myself*** - DiVinyls
3. Here We Go (Let's Rock & Roll) - C+C Music Factory
2. Touch Me (All Night Long) - Cathy Dennis
1. I Like The Way (The Kissing Game) - Hi Five
....Lead Singer Christina Amphlett died from breast cancer, and they were on their EIGHTH Album, before finally getting a hit....stick to your Dreams, Kids.....
Ha! Well She Bop was a little more nuanced, we didn't know what that meant until we were older. But we ALL knew what I Touch Myself meant, even as a 10-year old! Love it.
🤣🤣. These broads bopping away 😂😂😂
😂😂RIGHT
Aussie artist
It is indeed one of those songs you sing forgetting about the meaning 😊
Great song!
Honestly, it’s a big theme in 80s songs. And think about the way Madonna, Michael , and Prince performed. A lot is self love going on there too. Safe sex was a movement’s back then and was mostly defined by talking openly about contraception. The “grown ups” and conservatives I guess opposed that by promoting abstinence only. Masturbation fell somewhere in between and was definitively still the most taboo thing to discuss. The surgeon general made a statement that masturbation was safe and healthy around this time and the President fired her for it immediately!
What ‼️ 😔😳🤣
The best part of Austin Powers’ first movie, was when he was seducing the fem-bots by dancing to this song.
Nice song. How about more singing from empress 🥰
I remember this being a bit "controversial" (I hate that word lol) back in the day. But it is a great tune !
haha i hate that too
The only problem with this song is that the cowbell is only in the guitar mini-solo section. It should be in the background throughout the song. In other words... It needs more cowbell.
I think you threw up 10’s, I hope so because it is a fire bop (in more than one sense) 🤣 💗 💫
I wish a woman would tell me this!!!
If this made you blush..Then wait until you react to Chris Isaak, ,Wicked Games...Its on your to do list.. A Impressionist has requested it.. Take Heed ,
Can't wait!
@@EmpressReacts It's Hot
I was going to request this song. It is a VERY good one.