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Donna Lewis, the Welsh sensation who took over your eardrums in 1996! And no, don’t ask me why Donna’s scarf looks like a rubber glove full of melted Sweethearts. Or maybe it looks like a bunch of used skinny condoms that the Care Bears busted heart-shaped nuts into.
“I Love You Always Forever” is a song that will always forever be stuck in the deepest crevices of my brain and will never ever leave. I could bust my head and get amnesia, and if my nurse started humming the melody to the chorus, I’d immediately start warbling out the lyrics, “Everywhere I will be with you, everything I will do 4 U!” Donna Lewis still makes and performs music today and she had other small hits (like that Anastasia song with Richard Marx), but ILYAF was the indestructible ear worm that spent 9 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 (it peaked at #2) in the US and has spent 20 years squirming around the inside of my head.
Donna wrote it herself and it was the first single off of her first album “Now In A Minute.” When ILYAF came out in 1996, everyone thought it was a Cyndi Lauper song, and I forever thought Donna Lewis was the sister of Clea Lewis from Ellen and Diabolique. They’re practically voice twins. And the video was pure mid-90s. It was shot in sepia, Donna wore a baby doll T and she danced around in an empty apartment. In the 90s, every music trick was avoiding unpacking by dancing around in their empty apartment.
That song was already a permanent resident in my brain, pretty much, and now thanks to me listening to it again, its lease has been extended for at least 20 more years. I’ll be singing that song all damn day, and I hope the cashier at Ralph’s knows what’s happening to me when I forget that people can hear me and I sing out loud, “Yooooooooooou’ve got the most unbelievable blue eeeeeyes…”
Pic: The Brooklyn Paper