Suddenly Strange

Album: Drive (1997)
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  • In a short webnote The Stories Behind The Songs, the lady herself said of "Suddenly Strange": "I was thinking of the way that the Beatles used strings and wanted to emulate that. The song is about when you've been with someone too long - the relationship has gone stale - and you realize that you've got to break up, but you want to do that and keep his stereo he's left at your house!"

    This may sound a little uncharitable, but one is entitled to ask why the charming Miss Runga couldn't have bought her own stereo after her debut album Drive went platinum seven times in her native New Zealand? >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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