Billie Myers: What stalled her career after “Kiss the Rain”?

I bought that cassingle and it's somewhere in a box in my storage unit.

Was it anything to do with the fact that she's got a fucking TERRIBLE voice OP? Like multiple cats being strangled.

She sounds worse than Janet Jackson and that's saying something.

If that’s her best song then I’m good not knowing WHET.

“Come to my window to kiss the rain” - Billie could’ve been a great opening act for the Etheridge audience.

I liked her second album, Vertigo, even better:

Am I Here Yet? (Return to Sender)

Should I Call You Jesus?

Flexible

Roll Over Beethoven

Great songs.

The Kiss The Rain video that I remember is the one where she’s literally getting soaked in rain. She looked a lot like Sandra Bernhard in that one.

It was never as great as "When the Rain Begins to Fall," perhaps because it did not have a video about an op-art black-and-white gang war in Morocco.

R6, that’s the US video. The other one, where she’s batshit, is the UK version.

Her light shone briefly... and dimly.

She should come back as even more gay.

She got an early Thunderpuss remix before they blew up with their Whitney “It’s Not Right…” remix.

Seriously. Do posters in this thread really think she can sing? Even Marianne Faithful sounds better.

This has to be a parody thread.

She has a distinct voice. I think the song is poorly written .

She’s due for a comeback.

[quote]She has a distinct voice.

That's one way of putting it R13.

My partner and I had a choreographed dance to this song, at our wedding, for a crowd of 200.

Her career stalled because people thought she was a man.

r16 that sounds shittastic.

She's a friend of a friend of mine and, yes, she is a massive lesbian.

Loved that song.

R19, why does she still claim to be bisexual?

I think being in the closet killed her career. She was so dyke-y when “Kiss the Rain” hit, but she tries HARD to sell herself as this pansexual woman in the “Tell Me” video which was such a departure from “Kiss the Rain”.

I was mounted for my first time to Kiss The Rain.

When the man entered my lady potato I hit the high notes and shouted KISS THE RAIN!!!!

When he was done he took the 2 paperbags off of my head and left.

I always think of this moment when playng this song. Which is repeatedly on my Walkman.

We used to sing kiss my shit if your lips feel lonely and thirsty kiss my shit

The UK tried to ram so many different female singerson MTV /VH1 in the 80s and 90s, and many of them failed to become the 'next big thing'. Lisa Stansfield didn't do it ("All Around the World") , Allison Moyet didn't do it ("Invisible"), and this one didn't do it.

Lisa Stansfield did do it.

Her “is she a lez?” vibe fit right in during the mid-late 90’s Lilith Fair era. That can’t be why she went down the shitter.

I used to drive my mother crazy listening to this song. I absolutely loved it.

It was just a one off one hit wonder song. I thought nothing of her having a second song.

Damn, she murdered that apartment in the Kiss The Rain video.

R28, it’s what lesbians do when they think you’re cheating on them.

Did she really date Ingrid Casares? What an odd couple.

Because of her success other labels had their own black art-rock warblers (Kina, Res) - but lack of solid follow-up material and America's love of thug/ho pop in the early aughts contributed greatly to her relegation to the land of Tasmin Archer and FeFe Dobson.

[quote] Do you remember “Kiss the Rain” and where you were when this classic first played on the radio?

I'm a 90 s alt music junkie. I was in high-school in the 90s and I first heard Kiss the Rain in my bedroom while doing home work and listening to the radio after-school . Later I heard it on an episode of Dawson's Creek

This reminds me WHET Joan Osborne, Natalie Merchant, Heather Nova, Shawn Colvin, Amanda Marshall, Meredith Brooks and Paula Cole?

R33.

[quote] When the man entered my lady potato

I can't

Shawn Colvin has had a lot of great albums.

Holy shit! This was a woman signing?!

Guess I never saw the video.

It’s really a Desmond Child song and Billie was just a vehicle to Child and whatever record company she was signed to. I don’t think she had a chance.

If she was so marginally talented, how did she sign a deal with a songwriter/producer as prolific as Desmond Child?

Part of me thinks she didn't appeal to a properly segmented audience. She wasn't cute enough to be a pop star, soulful enough to stand among the Lilith Fair gals, and dykey-enough to entice Etheridge fans to buy her album.

It played ALL THE TIME at the bistro I worked at. We changed the lyrics to 'Quiche Lorraine'.

Die hard Stans, such as OP, of forgotten neverweres, such as Billie whatever, are a strange breed.

[quote]This reminds me WHET Joan Osborne, Natalie Merchant, Heather Nova, Shawn Colvin, Amanda Marshall, Meredith Brooks and Paula Cole?

Paula Cole still puts out new music and plays small venues.

Meredith Brooks is a MAGA Trump supporter.

^She IS a bitch then.