Slower Dancing Songs: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

Tweet

There are songs that you don’t have to hear to “hear.” You see the title, and the song is playing in your head. Good ol’ ear worms. Welcome to one of them. This is one of the songs this month that feature ballads and songs that make you gently move, not “get up and boogie” (as the title of the Silver Convention song said). This is for @rebelann , who’s had too much rocking out to the songs I post…so I’m deliberately going with more mellow tunes. Here’s today’s song. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me - Culture Club Culture Club, and good ol’ Boy George! Come on! Let’s put our hands together for a guy who looks like Brooke Shields and Bob Marley! (Robin Williams) Sometimes I think that Culture Club could ONLY have existed in the 80s. (Then I look at Kiss, Elton John, and all the glam rockers in the 70s…) They were so visual, especially front man George O’Dowd. Culture Club and MTV were made for each other. And, while this is not my favorite Culture Club song, this was their major breakthrough. It’s one of those songs you can sway to and sing along with the chorus (come on, does anyone know any lyrics to this song other than the chorus? ), and it’s a happy transport back to the early 80s. With all the drug problems he’s had in his life, I’m happy that Boy George is still with us. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Written by Boy George, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay, and Jon Moss Recorded by Culture Club From Kissing to Be Clever, 1982 I could waste a thousand years: