Stacey Q

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有著瑪?shù)つ韧庑偷哪贻p女歌者Stacey Swain在八○年代初期加入一個(gè)名為Q的電子流行團(tuán)，這名字怎么來(lái)呢？因?yàn)?07情報(bào)員詹姆斯．龐德系列電影中有位專門(mén)發(fā)明新武器的人物就叫Q。因?yàn)镾tacey Swain的加入擔(dān)任主唱，后來(lái)這個(gè)團(tuán)改名為SSQ，出了一張專輯不過(guò)也沒(méi)有走紅，于是Stacey Swain改名為Stacey Q追求個(gè)人音樂(lè)事業(yè)的突破。
1986年Stacey Q終于尋得一紙合約并發(fā)表專輯《Better Than Heaven》其中主打歌就是這首“Two Of Hearts”，這首歌除了在Billboard單曲榜得到第3名外，在舞曲榜更是紅的嚇嚇叫，甚至威鎮(zhèn)全臺(tái)各大小舞廳，是八○年代舞曲代表作之一。
Stacey Q因?yàn)檫@首歌很快成為炙手可熱的歌手，可是為什么后來(lái)都沒(méi)有暢銷曲延續(xù)她的音樂(lè)巔峰呢？有一傳言或許可以解釋：當(dāng)“Two Of Hearts”當(dāng)紅時(shí)，曾有女同志團(tuán)體想使用此曲為該團(tuán)體的宣傳曲（另一說(shuō)法是想邀請(qǐng)Stacey Q為她們代言），不過(guò)Stacey Q卻不友善的響應(yīng)，于是遭到杯葛、抵制。不論以上說(shuō)法是否正確，事實(shí)上雖然1988、1997年Stacey Q都還發(fā)表新作，但聲勢(shì)的確無(wú)法跟“Two Of Hearts”相提并論。近年來(lái)“Two Of Hearts”雖然市面上找的到混音舞曲版，但是原曲卻很難尋，因此這張《青春80》特別收錄此曲供樂(lè)迷們回味。
by Steve Huey
Best-known for her 80s dance-pop smash Two of Hearts, Stacey Qs Madonna-ish look and youthful age helped her appeal to teens as well as clubgoers during her relatively brief time in the spotlight. Born Stacey Swain, she first began performing as part of the Ringling Brothers Circus, and joined a synth pop outfit called Q (named after the James Bond gadget man) in the early 80s. As the focus of the group shifted to its new vocalist, their name was changed to SSQ (for Stacey Swain), and they landed a deal with Enigma, releasing an album, titled Playback, in 1983. It went largely unnoticed, however, and the rechristened Stacey Q pursued a solo career. She eventually signed with Atlantic, and made her solo debut in 1986 with the LP Better Than Heaven. The lead single, Two of Hearts, soared into the pop Top Five, making Stacey Q a hot commodity; she performed on the sitcom The Facts of Life and scored another Top 40 hit with the follow-up, We Connect. Sustaining that success proved difficult, however; neither of her subsequent Atlantic albums, 1988s Hard Machine and 1989s Nights Like This, produced another major hit, and she was lost in the wave of teen-oriented pop that emerged around the same time. A greatest-hits compilation was released in 1995, but it featured mostly remixes, a hefty selection from the Playback era, and no material from her last two Atlantic albums. In 1997, Stacey Q released a small-scale comeback album called Boomerang; a far cry from her 80s dance-pop records, it reflected her conversion to Buddhism and concentrated mostly on acoustic pop and rock.