Everything But the Girl Driving

1990 album Driving

The 1990 single "Driving" was Everything But the Girl's first (minor) US chart success, but it was a shock for fans of the duo's earlier work. Recorded in Los Angeles, produced by MOR veteran Tommy LiPuma and featuring session musicians drawn from the terminally uncool world of post-fusion jazz-pop, the album The Language of Life sounded like an attempt to muscle in on Sade and Basia's middle of the road adult contemporary success. "Driving" is probably the most successful song on the album musically, but it's a weak addition to the Everything But the Girl canon. Opening with a trick nicked from Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" ? a brief loop of Tracey Thorn's voice that continues, unchanging, throughout the entire song ? "Driving" is otherwise a standard pining-for-a-faraway-love ballad with atypically uninspired lyrics and a chorus that features Ben Watt's plain voice overshadowing Thorn's infinitely more expressive instrument. "Driving" accomplished what it was likely meant to, extending Everything But the Girl's US career by convincing their new US label, Atlantic, that they were potentially commercially viable. Ironically, the stark electronic dance music that would finally break the duo in the states starting with 1994's hit "Missing" is a world apart from this brand of flabby adult contemporary pop.

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• Driving

[TRASUPO]

EBTG came up when l wanted some SOS thanx for the upload.

[msjazzylinn]

@TRASUPO My pleasure! ♫♫ ʝαʑ ♫♫

[briantfenton]

.....buried my pop a month before graduating high school.......this was a year before this album came out........i remember driving home on a lonely and dark country road trying to get home.........first heard this song on the radio that night.......damn......this song always chokes me up............B...

[msjazzylinn]

@briantfenton ;o)

[elisan3]

Naniwa brought me here

[joontz94]

Same here!

[ShamanKing9999]

Naniwa brought me here....

[starshredn]

i lovee to play my acoutic ,heavy metal guitars to it , tamborine ,harmonica, back up mic singing and my cosio organ hook uped to my cry baby on violin thanks for all the fame and funlol

[ukgooner100]

Love this song, and a really great album