"Don't Wanna Fall in Love" by Jane Child has turned 30 years old

12" version

Teddy Riley remix

Flash in the pan

First CD I ever bought. Loved it!

Still sounds current.

R5

It’s actually pure 1990, but such an unusual arrangement that it still sounds modern.

The album was okay, still love DS 21

OP is the same stanning cunt who starts a thread to feature this song every year.

I'm disappointed there are no live performances of this song from her when it came out in 1990, even 1991. There's just 1 when she did a duet with Wayne Brady in the early 2000s and by then she was either very nervous, sick or had started losing her voice as she sounded rather weak. I assume given how big this song was in 1990 she had to have been on some late night talk shows and award shows to perform? weird that at least for now there's nothing

Loved this song, she was cool

I was in college. Fuck, I'm old.

College? I was starting my first job. Heard it on every commute, both ways. Love it. She had a cool look. Fuck I’m older.

I liked it at the time, but wasn’t into the video or her. You couldn’t escape that song, it seemed like it was everywhere for months.

The name and face is familiar, but I don’t remember the song. At all.

WHET? Is she still wearing the nose chain?

Interesting that Welcome to the Real World appeared on Married to the Mob soundtrack which came out in 1988.

That song plus Don't Wanna Fall in Love were great but I didn't care for the rest of the album.

I liked her club hit that came out in the '90s All I Do.

I bought this song on cassette single. I loved this song.

Her music was late 80s. Her last single from the debut album in 89 came out in feb 90

Great song but haaaaated her hair and remember being freaked out by her chain - especially since the video has her traipsing all over NYC at night by herself and it would take is one crazy person to get it in their head to rip it off.

She had a very dated look for 1989

Yeah I didn’t really groove with her look either R18!

does her video capture NYC at the time? I think that was before major gentrification and yuppie-zation?

That time in NYC was SOOOO MUCH FUN!!!

Loved this song. Saving it on my faves.

Thanks for the memories, OP.

Her outfit is hot AF, btw. I’m currently doing a look book for all of my current pieces, and other stuff I wanna buy for going out & mixing it up this summer, so I’m glad I saw this vid, because it gave me some ideas.

Thanks, OP!

R22 glad you like. Which aspects of her style might you adopt?

I wanna do the braids, r23. I also like the crop top, the leather pants (I have leather pants, very tight, but matte) and the belt is awesome.

I’d polish it up. Braids, Black, Norma Kamali blazer, crop top, pants, belt. Maybe with some doc martens, or maybe with some gold heels. It would depend on the evening and event.

I’m somewhat curvier than her, yet still thin, if that makes sense? So I never get that androgynous look, which really bums me out. I was able to pull it off in my teens, but the eventual boobs and hips put an end to that.

It was the kind of vapid Jody Watley/Paula Abdul/Stock-Aitken-Waterman drum-machined shit that was all over the charts at the time.

And she knew it.

The only way she could make herself distinct was her personal style, and she chose "disturbing." Nobody wanted to look at that.

That was 1990??? Wow, her hairstyle and image was about 5 years out of date by then.

R26 to be fair she is Canadian I don't know how long she was in the US for when she made her album

R25 You made me LOL

Lesbian, no?

I heard it the first time in GTA V. It is a great song.

I still love this song

R25 damn harsh and Jody had some nice bops

It reminds me of when NYC was cool. Now it's just the city with the most people. Or I got old.

She did almost all of the song herself on the synthesizer (mostly a Fairlight Series III), which was pretty damned impressive at the time.

R34 yes she was a musical prodigy

She got one of those braids caught in a revolving door and it was yanked out by the roots.

R22... I totally agree about NYC being AMAZING during that time...I was in high school at the time...I was always hanging out at Canal Jean, Unique, Rebel Rebel etc... I miss that era and downtown Manhattan was fucking fantastic. The East Village and West Village was just heaven. Soho had a a great vibe before it became a fucking mall. You never knew what could happen or who you could meet.

The song was cool too... I love that track!

At the time, the song was meh and the look was ridiculous. Not disturbing or edgy or interesting at all.

I was in my early teens back then and thought she looked and sounded very dated. This was the time when the 60s/70s revival started to happen.

R37 when did it start changing? late 90s?

She wasn’t a trend setter musically or visually.

R1 it sounds like emotions by Mariah

R37 has a poor sense of history. Soho rapidly gentrified throughout the 80s and by 1990 the grit was gone. It was a boutique. The East Village had retained its funky commerces, but no real population of young bohos was moving in. In fact fringe elements were rapidly priced out of rents in the East Village starting in the mid 80s. The West Village was already Yuppified. Canal Jean was actually on Canal, but by 1990 had moved to lower Broadway, and it was already "mallified" - not nearly the funky paradise it had been. In 1990 young people were already shopping at places like Domsey's and also most were already living in Brooklyn.

Truth fairy.

It's true all this was intensified through the 90s.