"Bad Reputation" came from his major label debut, "This Perfect World," a critically-acclaimed album that led Rolling Stone to name Johnston songwriter of the year. Inexplicably, nothing else from the record hit the charts, even the wonderful "Two Lovers Stop." Despite its upbeat nature, "Two Lovers Stop" is about a young couple that decided to jump off a bridge to their deaths because the girl's rich father forbade her to hook up with a poor boy. Okay, so maybe that's why it wasn't on the radio much!
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
"Two Lovers Stop" by Freedy Johnston
It is hard enough to score your first charting single in your teens and twenties, but even harder once you reach your thirties. But that is what the New York-based singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston managed to do in 1995. The memorable tune "Bad Reputation" reached #54, Johnston's only appearance on the chart.
"Bad Reputation" came from his major label debut, "This Perfect World," a critically-acclaimed album that led Rolling Stone to name Johnston songwriter of the year. Inexplicably, nothing else from the record hit the charts, even the wonderful "Two Lovers Stop." Despite its upbeat nature, "Two Lovers Stop" is about a young couple that decided to jump off a bridge to their deaths because the girl's rich father forbade her to hook up with a poor boy. Okay, so maybe that's why it wasn't on the radio much!
"Bad Reputation" came from his major label debut, "This Perfect World," a critically-acclaimed album that led Rolling Stone to name Johnston songwriter of the year. Inexplicably, nothing else from the record hit the charts, even the wonderful "Two Lovers Stop." Despite its upbeat nature, "Two Lovers Stop" is about a young couple that decided to jump off a bridge to their deaths because the girl's rich father forbade her to hook up with a poor boy. Okay, so maybe that's why it wasn't on the radio much!
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