@DrEdBridges

For what it's worth, back in 2022 I trained #YouTube to not recommend U.S.A. politics to me.

There *are* nuclear options; if you need them.

One is the Kyoto #TachibanaSHSBand .

The other is #AndreiCerbu and xyr various #TheRamp protégés in #Iași in #Romania such as #AndreeaMunteanu and #BeatriceFlorea.

Both will weight your recommendations very heavily. I'm not joking when I warn: do not find and watch these videos unless you want to completely skew the YouTube algorithm.

Checking:

#GirlsAloud gives proper songwriter credit to Ritchie Cordell but doesn't mention either #TommyJames or the #Shondelles.

Tiffany's re-recording does not credit anyone else at all, Tiffany's first cover doesn't mention James or the Shondelles either.

And #AndreeaMunteanu got copyright claimed on YouTube by Tiffany! That's a bit rich.

It took #IndianaMassara pointedly making a pinned comment to put me on to TJ&TS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feP6OVdcgVk

@bytebro @witewulf #IThinkWereAloneNow

I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW - Indiana (Official Music Video)

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Oh, thank goodness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soj0v4v4MzU

All of these years — decades, even — labouring under one impression, only to find out *today* that it is wrong.

The out of tune cacophony isn't the original!

#AndreeaMunteanu, I take it back. You don't have to wear a denim jacket.

I was clued in by Indiana Massara, of all people. I had to look up who xe even was. Just a random YouTube sidebar recommendation that I almost ignored.

@bytebro @witewulf #IThinkWereAloneNow
#TommyJames #Shondelles

I Think We're Alone Now

YouTube

Erm … my goodness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcOFaBVIV0

It's a bit different to #AndreeaMunteanu's own version from some years back.

#TheIronCross #IreneCara #Flashdance

What A Feeling - Irene Cara (by The Iron Cross) - METAL VERSION

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@witewulf

Second: Pretty much any cover of that particular song is going to exceed the original, which is painfully out of tune. This pretty much even includes the cover^Wre-recording that #Tiffany xyrself did many years later.

And — Lo! — said re-recording is the fifth recommendation in the sidebar next to that Snuff video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmeJ2VsCs-0

Someone tell #AndreeaMunteanu that there's supposed to be a denim jacket. (-:

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now (Re-Recorded)

YouTube

@witewulf

A lot of reaction from me.

First: YouTube's top recommendation at the side of the video is, amusingly, the #AndreeaMunteanu one (from #AndreiCerbu's cover song factory in #Iași #Romania, which has cover songs coming out of your ears).

M. Munteanu usually dresses to fit the song, the artist, or the original performance. But I'm missing the reference here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvnHRqlWamQ

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now; cover by Andreea Munteanu

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Tones and I - Dance Monkey (by Andreea Munteanu)

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