Review:

on 2011-07-03 CharlesMartel Said:

The unrequited love song has a long history. "Drive" was such a song with a twist. It was just enough saccharine and easy-to-listen to for MTV and so this song has passed into the canon of songs which define the eighties for many of us. This was pop. It was designed to be pop and was intended to be played on the radio and to make lots of money for the record company (and maybe a bit for the band as well). It has that eighties feel about it - smooth synthesiser sound, crooning vocals and the video, man the video. If any song seemed to typify the eighties pop scene, suitable on both sides of the Atlantic, this was it.

Yet listen closely and it also reflects the other side of the eighties, the darker more morose side of the decade. This wasn't just unrequited love, this was man obsessed, despite his better judgement, with a woman who cares nothing for him, takes advantage of him and abuses him. But he knows that this woman is a wreck, a mess, self-destructive and toxic to anyone she comes into contact with. And yet still he picks her up and drives her home.

Stuff you, MTV!
Rating: 6/10