Music Review: Bananarama "Love, Truth, and Honesty"
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Love, Truth, and Honesty
Album: The Greatest Hits Collection
Year: 1988
Bananrama gets burned by a boyfriend's selfish behavior in the fair "Love, Truth, and Honesty."
In first verse, Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, and Sarah Dallin advise women that emotions are unpredictable and can't be believed. They also tell women it's their best friend who will abandon them when they need them the most. ("Never trust your own emotions/They'll always let you down/And the one that's closest to you/May not always be around.")
However, the ex-boyfriend made promise after promise which (for sake of brevity), Woodward thought were true. She assumed he would follow through. He didn't. Then, when she opened up to him and told him a secret, he would make fun of it. ("I never questioned/
The promises you made/Every time I gave my heart/I was betrayed.")
She chides herself for even having standards for relationships. It would only lead to her being deceived and upset constantly. ("What a fool/That I should ever believe/In love, truth and honesty/All the time/You just keep on hurting me.")
In the second verse, she thinks no one reveals their true selves to people they know. She know sees her vulnearbility as a weakness. ("Maybe everyone's a stranger/I watch them come and go/But I think everyone's in danger/If they let their feelings show.")
She says that each relationship has a lesson attached to it. After it's over, people learn what they didn't know before. However, they lose a part of themselves which could have faith in people. ("There's a lesson/And a price you have to pay/If you give your heart/Don't let it be betrayed.")
The chorus is repeated twice. Then, part of the second verse ("there's a lesson...don't let it be betrayed") The chorus is then repeated twice again to end the single.
The sour "Love, Truth, and Honesty" is unremarkable next to their other singles. It's also uncharacteristically biting and negative. Bananarama has dealt with some heady topics (rape, prositution, physical abuse.) However, they did so without being preachy or condescending. In "Love, Truth, and Honesty" they gave up the self-reliance and wit which first made them popular.
Album: The Greatest Hits Collection
Year: 1988
Bananrama gets burned by a boyfriend's selfish behavior in the fair "Love, Truth, and Honesty."
In first verse, Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, and Sarah Dallin advise women that emotions are unpredictable and can't be believed. They also tell women it's their best friend who will abandon them when they need them the most. ("Never trust your own emotions/They'll always let you down/And the one that's closest to you/May not always be around.")
However, the ex-boyfriend made promise after promise which (for sake of brevity), Woodward thought were true. She assumed he would follow through. He didn't. Then, when she opened up to him and told him a secret, he would make fun of it. ("I never questioned/
The promises you made/Every time I gave my heart/I was betrayed.")
She chides herself for even having standards for relationships. It would only lead to her being deceived and upset constantly. ("What a fool/That I should ever believe/In love, truth and honesty/All the time/You just keep on hurting me.")
In the second verse, she thinks no one reveals their true selves to people they know. She know sees her vulnearbility as a weakness. ("Maybe everyone's a stranger/I watch them come and go/But I think everyone's in danger/If they let their feelings show.")
She says that each relationship has a lesson attached to it. After it's over, people learn what they didn't know before. However, they lose a part of themselves which could have faith in people. ("There's a lesson/And a price you have to pay/If you give your heart/Don't let it be betrayed.")
The chorus is repeated twice. Then, part of the second verse ("there's a lesson...don't let it be betrayed") The chorus is then repeated twice again to end the single.
The sour "Love, Truth, and Honesty" is unremarkable next to their other singles. It's also uncharacteristically biting and negative. Bananarama has dealt with some heady topics (rape, prositution, physical abuse.) However, they did so without being preachy or condescending. In "Love, Truth, and Honesty" they gave up the self-reliance and wit which first made them popular.