Who's That Girl

Album: Touch (1983)
Charted: 3 21
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about a girl who knows her man is cheating and wants to know who the other woman is:

    Who's that girl
    Running around with you?


    Eurythmics lead singer Annie Lennox told Q magazine: "'With Who's That Girl?' I was rather desperately in love at the time, and a lot of my songs were about unrequited love. At the time the songs meant only one thing to me, but at different times came to mean different things. Songs are quite organic."
  • In the video, Annie Lennox is singing the song in a cabaret while her bandmate (and then-lover) Dave Stewart escorts several attractive women into a fancy restaurant. One of the women portraying a paramour is Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama, who married Stewart a few years after this song was released.

    Lennox has long blond hair in this one, quite a departure from her close-cropped orange hair seen in the video for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)."
  • Duncan Gibbins, who directed the video, died in 1993 at age 41 after trying to rescue a stray cat during wildfires in Malibu, California.

Comments: 1

  • Tucker from Jackson Heights, NyQuite funny how one of those "attractive women" that Stewart brought in was Marilyn... one of the blitz kids of the 80s, and while he was quite gorgeous, eccentric, and incredible.. he was NOT a woman
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