Musical Interlude: Foolish Beat (1987-8)

 The 80's brought some musical "rivalries" on the pop charts.

First, Madonna & Cyndi Lauper arrived on the scene relatively around the same time in the winter of 1983-4. Both are still active today, though Lauper has moved on to Broadway ("Kinky Boots"), and has moved away from the pop charts.

Just a few short years later, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson arrived on the scene. Like Lauper, Gibson was a New York girl, in this case from Long Island. Just before her 18th birthday, Debbie hit the top of the charts with "Foolish Beat", the fourth single from her Atlantic Records debut, "Out of The Blue". Gibson also wrote "Beat", and all of the material on the album.

Gibson's then-crush, Matt Goss, whose band, The Bros, was on the charts for a hot minute, appears in the video.

Like the other women, Debbie's dabbled in acting, mostly in schlocky sci-fi-horror movies that have aired on SyFy, and has been on Broadway. I think of the four we've talked about here, Tiffany is the only one who hasn't done Broadway.