Should've Been A Single

[Shane2]

AIP changed the course of Deborahs career. Could it have been different?

[Erica]

That's one thing we all can say could of should of would of but we can't change what happened.

Erica

[PaSquall]

Not my fave song of the 5, but Where have you been could have been a very good single, the 4 others are more album tracks.

[Sunny]

I don't know about "career changing" but Sure is my fav off that album!

[Dariusz]

I pick "Another brick falls", but really, I think a better video for "Anything is possible" would have been a good start.

[Out of the Blue]

I picked "Another Brick Falls."  It probably wouldn't have made much of a difference.  At that time radio was going in a different direction and her style of music wasn't as popular anymore.  It was even being shunned.  I think Milli Vanilli had a lot to do with it.  That Milli Vanilli scandal will go down in history as one of the biggest scandals in music and it changed the course of music too.  Even nearly 20 years later we are still feeling the effects of it.

[Dariusz]

Milli Vanilli, what about the guy from Boney M?

At least I guess the female members of Boney M sang in the songs.

[PaSquall]

Milli Vanilli, what about the guy from Boney M?

At least I guess the female members of Boney M sang in the songs.

It was never his role to sing, except some short parts like in Ma Baker (that he really sings, anyway. Though I won't argue that he's not the best singer in the world  ).

[PaSquall]

Never really understood the Milli Vanilli scandal. In here (France), they are all but forgotten and this "scandal" did have almost no impact AFAIK. In the nineties there were litterally tons of crappy dance music groups who did exactly the same (pretending to sing) and just blaming Milli vanilli for this is very very hypocrit. Basically you had people who liked this kind of music and who didn't care if the guys/girls sang or not, and those who didn't like this music and (logically) never bothered about it.
Maybe it was different in the US or in UK. Why was it such of a scandal there ?

[Out of the Blue]

Those guys won a Grammy and that whole thing really did taint the Grammys.  Or at least people thought it did.  They had to give it back and basically went into exile.  When that story broke (and it had been rumored for months that they weren't singing on the albums) and it turned out to be true, then a lot of music writers and TV journalists painted all of pop and dance music with a broad brush.  They basically said that it was all like that, that it was fake, that the people were fake, and that it wasn't "real music."  Most of the music critics in this country have a special hatred for anything that isn't coffee house, hippie,  or protest music, and this was their golden opportunity to try and bury pop/dance music once and for all.  They dismissed anyone that had anything to do with pop or dance music and if you listened to it you just didn't know jack about good music.  People like Deborah, Tiffany, and Martika were especially attacked because they were looked at by them as being "too young, too positive/upbeat," and "too pop."  All of a sudden MTV, Vh1, and radio just turned its back on basically anything that had been popular or dance music in favor of the harder, grungey, alternative sound.  That was supposed to be "real music" and free of "corporate influence" but the ironic thing is that their tours were all sponsored by corporations.  It also really wasn't very good music top begin with.

[Woops]

"Must've Been My Boy"

[Woops]

Since Taylor Dayne and Paula Abdul's ballads were hits in 1990/1991, Deb's ballads would've also been successful hits too... Plus, she's a far better singer than Paula Abdul  and actually writes/produces her own material...

[debfan74]

I say that when Anything Is Possible was released, the first song I would have gone for as a single is Where Have You Been? It just had radio written all over it!

[Woops]

Next year "Anything Is Possible" will be 20 years old...

Though the fact that it was considered a flop despite it went gold & the title track being a minor hit or that  it wasn't successful like her first two albums is still a mystery

Her ballads could've easily topped the charts.

 
Plus, there were still artists from the '70's & '80's (non alternative or rap) like Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Tom Petty,  Prince, INXS, Phil Collins, Bon Jovi, George Michael, and even New Kids on the Block that had several hits in 1990/1991.

[Out of the Blue]

That album has really grown on me since it was released.  When I first heard it I wasn't as impressed with it as I had been her previous two albums but over the years it's sounded better to me.