Expose

Let Me Be The One

I really liked them. Their last album from 1992 was quite good, including this song.

Klymaxx and Expose would have been a good tour.

Long distance dedication to the one that got away

Live version of I'll Never Get Over you getting over me.

Thank you OP for starting this thread. What fun 80s music.

Seasons Change

Come Go With Me is a classic banger

Underrated band

Did they have success in multiple music markets?

8 top 10 hits and a number one. Clive Davis threw them aside once TLC came on to the scene. I think he said none of them had any star quality.

I had a major unrequited crush during college in the late 80s, Let Me Be the One was like my anthem. Looking back now, I was a dramatic young gay. Still a great song though.

I liked them!

Live at the Apollo

"Underrated band "

In their suckage? Then yeah, I agree.

R13 I had forgotten how much I liked that song

The lead singer came out as bisexual before it became fashionable, then a few years later was busted for trafficking meth. I don't think I ever heard the case disposition so she probably got a celebrity pretrial diversion.

I love their first album with the mix of freestyle, pop and ballads.

They seem to become more watered down with each subsequent album but they suited the more sassy dance songs.

Clive Davis said in his autobiography that they didn't have star quality to last. He's such a piece of shit. They still had a number of hits.

[Quote] they didn't have star quality to last.

None of them did become stars, did they?

Peasants!

These were my bitches ! I loved them madly . Fantastic songs to dance to .Their songs came on and people ran to the dance floor .

[Quote] She remains beloved and sorely in freestyle circles, both as a member of Expose and as a solo artist. Super Wheels in Kendall hosted a benefit freestyle reunion concert in her honor shortly after her death, and one woman's bathroom there remains painted to look like her dressing room.

Does the Miami New Times pay its writers?

The early 90s really wiped out the dance pop girls. It was too bad, but popular taste shifted to grunge, New Jack and hip hop.

Is Kylie not a dance pop girl?

Madonna and Janet are dance pop as well.

They always sang off tune which. Is irritating

The problem with Expose is they chased the pop charts but started in the clubs. I loved their first album but their second saw them trying to be Wilson Phillips and their third was more, further watered down pop/dance and adult contemporary balladry. They had no consistency from what they had been originally--and what they were trying to be from the second album on was something they weren't very good at.

r26 only the big stars survived into the 90s like Madonna and Whitney. The rest of the 80s acts were over. The second-tier ones couldn't get radio play or promotion anymore.

Clive Davis took a more active role in their second album and changed the direction from the freestyle dance to polished pop.

Yeah, clearly family.

They had some fun songs. That was a really fun era for dance pop, lots of good stuff in the late 80s.

My personal favorite was Jody Watley. She had some fantastic songs back then, loved her.

[quote]The lead singer came out as bisexual before it became fashionable, then a few years later was busted for trafficking meth.

There wasn’t an official lead singer, as Jeanette (Come Go With Me) and Gioia (Let Me Be The One) both sang lead. I do know that Gioia is bi, but trafficking meth? Where did you get that? I’d always read that she left the group because she lost her voice due to benign throat nodules. She always did have that raspy thing going.

It's linked at r23.

[quote][R26] only the big stars survived into the 90s like Madonna and Whitney

Are you slow? Janet was huge in the ‘80s and her stardom only grew in the ‘90s.

Another good one...

They were actually one of my favorite late 80s acts. I still listen to them from time to time

Gioia left the group in the early 90s due to the loss of her voice. She was replaced by Kelly Moneymaker (who is married to soap actor Peter Reckell). The meth thing came way later.

I like that they mixed up the lead vocals.

Interesting that the original version of Point of No Return was from a different singer. They re-recorded it with Jeanette doing lead vocals.

I liked the Cover Girls better - but I would pay money to see a concert of my 3 favorite girl late 80's trios:

Cover Girls Company B Expose

I think all 3 were from Miami, IIRC. There are so many 80's and 90's band that could make some money if they tried.

That article makes something maje sense now. A few years ago, this guy I was acquainted with heard Gloria Estefan on the radio and told me she got busted for selling meth. "NO," I explained, "She killed someone with her boat." He insisted she got busted for selling meth. "She owns an island in Miami. A chain of restaurants. Several hotels. A sports team. Gloria Estefan is not selling crystal meth," I insisted. It always struck me as a strange tjing to claim--Gloria Estefan, drug peddler. Fast forward to tonight, reading that article, and I see where he probably mixed up Goia, who as Expose was popular in the 80's and was in Miami when she was busted for selling meth, with Gloria Estefan of the Miami Sound Machine.

And now I think it's sort of funny, the idea that Gloria Estefan would be selling meth in a bathroom.

Which one is married to Bo Brady?

Don't look at me!

r35 I just gave a couple of examples. Yes, Janet survived into the 90s.

Alanis and Tori too.

Taylor Dayne

Expose

Klymaxx

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Taylor Dayne started to think that she was a songwriter. She learned that she wasn't. Whitney didn't just succeed because of he voice. She did what she was told, mostly. Look at the failure of "Just Whitney," to see Whitney doing things her own way and suffering the consequences.

Klymaxx didn't last because of intra group strife.

Taylor Dayne didn't make it past the early 90s.

[quote]Taylor Dayne started to think that she was a songwriter. She learned that she wasn't.

Clive Davis flat-out told her she sucked as a songwriter and she needed to listen to him and get songs from real songwriters. She didn't listen, her album in the early 90s bombed and she was done. If she'd listened to Clive, she maybe could've had a few more years of hits.

"I'll Be Your Shelter" is one of Taylor Dayne's best vocals

R51 the Tina Turner song that never was

I never liked Taylor Dayne's voice. I thought it was coarse and unappealing.

Sigh. This reminds me of my other favorite Miami performer from my high school years... DJ Laz. I grew up in Naples, but used to go shopping in Miami with my friends every few weeks after getting my driver's license & first car, and totally loved letting the homeboys in Hialeah hear what a literal kilowatt of class-A Denon power sounded like. Good times :-D

Expose and Taylor Dayne had very similar careers.

Taylor should never have got that nose job. Her image makeover just made her a hard blonde. She was quite cute in her original incarnation.

Season Change was their Eternal Flame

[quote]Which one is married to Bo Brady?

See R38.

Klymaxx has the best "Bands Reunited" that aired on VH1 and there are only partial scenes online.

I'd throw them all off a bridge for one night with Freestyle DJ legend Bob Rosenberg of Will To Power.

Another epic DJ Laz classic that still makes me smile when I hear it played on an audio system capable of reproducing it in its full infrasonic glory. The quintessential fusion of happy, dancing elves and brown notes worthy of a Department of Defense research project.

R53 - How DARE you!

Let's not forget Dimas Martinez, who sounded like he should have been an adorable, hot little pass-around party bottom (spoiler: he wasn't).

The LMBTO video is the perfect time capsule for that era with the over the top hair, makeup, fashion, jewelry. The 80's were really something else.

R36 The main guy is hot as hell

Incidentally, I challenge *anyone* to listen to "Drums of Love" (r63) and NOT be convinced it's the official anthem of secretly-gay Hialeah homeboys. Literally every single stanza is pure, concentrated South Florida Gayness... right up there with K-7's "Body Rock" and Tony Moran's "Arabian (k)nights" (though I think TKA was from New York).

Yeah, Taylor Dayne and Expose had similar careers. They both had strong debut albums. More success with the second, although Dayne's was more successful I think. They both floundered with their third album. As has been mentioned, Dayne got involved in the songwriting, but there were a lack of hits on her third album, Soul Dancing.

By 1995, both acts had been dropped by Arista and the label issued Greatest Hits albums for both.

Taylor did manage to get a top 20 hit on her third album with her cover of Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love," and the second single from that album, "Send Me a Lover," did well on the AC charts. I also loved her cover of Jim Steinman's "Original Sin" from the soundtrack of the movie The Shadow.

[quote][R36] The main guy is hot as hell

Jeanette's guy? Yeah, he's gorg!

My favorite Expose song wasn't mentioned yet:

The Filipino chick is the only one who could sing. The other two were the wives of studio execs which is why they disappeared after interest disappeared. they were fraudsters. They weren't even singing!

They still look great!

I was reading somewhere that around 1993 there's some became dated and that's why they were dropped from their label.

There was grunge, hip hop, and alternative music out there.

Is Gioia a tranny?

[quote]The Filipino chick

Filipino? I thought they were Latina (Jenette), Italian (Gioia) and a regular all-American white girl (Ann).

[quote]Is Gioia a tranny?

I used to say that Gioia looked kind of mannish too, but she just has strong bone structure. She kind of resembled a young Kirstie Alley back during Expose's heyday. She did give birth to a daughter, so...

Their songs were fun, but they were an awkward trio. Hard to believe they were put together as a replacement for the original lineup. How were they an improvement?

Their first album cover was unflattering as hell.

Gioia has the most soul in her voice. She did the damn thing in that Apollo performance at R15, and you can tell that the audience was eating it up.

Back cover. Poor Ann just comes across as some frump who got an uncomfortable makeover and doesn't know what to do with herself.

Well they were replaced because Gioia and Jeanette can sing.

Their faces are melting ... melting ...

Get those jowls pulled up, bitches!

Ha, R67, I wrote almost the same thing in the Taylor Dayne thread.

R59: you are so right, Klymaxx was the best Bands Reunited and there were a lot of good ones

The original version of Point Of No Return. It's been said that it was rerecorded because the lead singer sounded too Latino.

That album cover should have been rejected. Terrible.

Rupaul's co-host Michelle Visage was a member of Expose wannabe Seduction

I wonder if they had their own version of Pebbles as manager and ended up broke.

I was at UMiami in the late 80s and Expose got a lot of love. They were fun. And oh my goodness did I cry and cry over that Never Get Over You ballad hahahaha.

I do remember people saying they just weren't pretty enough to be popular, the one short girl in particular looked too "Cubano". (Not my opinion, people, calm down. I don't think she was even Cuban). Was that what Clive Davis meant by not having star power? I loved them so eff off Clive.

I did see Will To Power at Club Nu but the memory is oh so hazy. For various reasons.

Gioia has performed with Will To Power (which is basically hunky Bob Rosenberg and whomever is the current female lead singer at the time) in the past.

[Quote] Was that what Clive Davis meant by not having star power?

No. Star power means charisma, x factor etc. You don't have to be pretty to have star power.

She’s bisexual!

She’s selling meth!!

She’s out of control!!!

Taylor Dayne also waited too long between her second and third albums (4 years). Ann actually had formal training as a singer. Expose waited 3 years between their albums and music had changed dramatically between 89-92.

I don't know about the rest of the country, but "Tell It To My Heart" by Taylor Dayne was the soundtrack to life in the Detroit suburbs in October 1987.

R85 Another song brought to you by Martha Wash's vocals.

Ditto for BlackBox and C+C Music Factory.

Seriously? Is it that bad to have a fat female singer as a musical act?

[Quote] Is it that bad to have a fat female singer as a musical act?

Here's an interview Jeannete recently gave.

That wasn’t the song with the Martha wash vocal r93, this one was.

I loooooved “Point of No Return”. Still do.

They get a lot of play on the local oldies station here in NYC.

I still confuse The Cover Girls with them.

Vixen had much better costumes plus bigger hair.

Point of No Return is the only song that stuck with me.

This my favorite Expose song.

That album cover is unfortunate.

Ann looks like her girdle is too tight and Gioa is sneering too much.

At least Jeanette is cute.