This is perfection!

…ernal credit, he nails exactly why this song works when nothing else John Waite ever recorded does. It’s that Waite is so inauthentic a singer that you can’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. So when he sings “I ain’t missing you at all,” it’s immediately clear that he misses the hell out of her, whoever she is.
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 33: August 18, 1984)
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Dana DuBois
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This is perfection!
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Publisher for Pink Hair & Pronouns, Three Imaginary Girls & genXy. Boost nominator. I'm a GenX word nerd living in the PNW with a lot of little words to share.
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