After last night’s little excursion and expirement in BWI, I woke up today feeling a little insecure. I mean, I was probably one of the oldest people at that club last night, I hadn’t done cardio in about a week and was feeling a little wrinkly and flabby. That would explain why I stayed near a wall, sipping my drink all night instead of dancing to Danni Minogue along with everyone else (plus, it’s Danni Minogue. To quote someone more famous and witty than I, “I don’t want BLOODY DANNI MINOGUE!”).

So, feeling a bit down on myself, I flip on VH1 Classic and there is Romeo Void’s “Never Say Never”. Any ounce of insecurity flew out the window once I saw lead singer Deborah Iyall rocking the fuck out.

Here is a woman who didn’t fit the stereotypical norm of what a “female rock singer” should look like. She wasn’t white, petite, slutty or trashy, but at the same time, she didn’t neuter her sexuality at all, becoming very hot in the process. She got up there, did her shit hard, left you on the floor, then split before it got old.

That’s what each of us should do tonight. Go out to your favorite bar, club, pub, dive, whatever, and wear what the fuck you want, laugh as loud as you want, talk to who you want, dance how you like and just ROCK. THE. FUCK. OUT.

I know I’m gonna.

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John C. Hughes

John C. Hughes began his Lost in the ’80s blog in 2005 and is now proud to be a member of the Popdose family, where he’s introduced LIT80s’s companions, the obviously named Lost in the ’70s and Lost in the ’90s, alongside the slightly more originally named Why You Should Like…

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