● Charlene - I've Never Been to Me 
歌名中  "I've Never Been to Me" 的那個 "Me" ，其實根本是男性威權保守社會的期待吧。

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[Music 365] 關於女性追尋自我的 I've Never Been to Me？？？ (44/365)

Note: Click "Show More" for lyrics. This video is in full HD and has the spoken bridge in the middle that isn't on the earlier version of the song. The song was originally released in 1977 without the spoken part. Feel free to comment if you love it, or even if you hate it! Here is some information about Charlene: 

Charlene Marilynn D'Angelo (born June 1, 1950, Hollywood, California) is an American R&B singer best known as Charlene. She is known for her 1982 popular song "I've Never Been to Me", and is considered a one-hit-wonder. Charlene originally recorded "I've Never Been to Me" in 1976, and the single reached #97 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1977. When released again in 1982, the single reached #3 in the United States (US), and #1 by June 1982, in the UK Singles Chart. The song has been her only Top 40 hit.
 
In 1982, Tampa, Florida disc jockey Scott Shannon, then at WRBQ, started playing the song at the behest of a girlfriend, by which time Charlene had lost her recording contract, moved to England and was working in a sweetshop in Ilford, London. Audience reaction was impressive, resulting in the song's second release with the original spoken bridge. The second release was a hit in England as well.
 
When the song was first released in the US in 1976, Charlene's legal name was Charlene Duncan from her marriage to record producer Larry Duncan; by the time the song was released in 1982, her name was Charlene Oliver by her subsequent marriage to Englishman Jeff Oliver. The single reached the top of the US pop and adult contemporary charts that year, and the concurrent release of her album I've Never Been to Me, was also relatively successful. The single was one of the year's biggest hits, and the video for the song was filmed at Blickling Hall, Norfolk, England and Charlene wore the wedding dress that she got married in.
 
"I've Never Been to Me" was featured as the opening song to the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The song is mimed onstage by two Sydney drag queens at the Imperial Hotel in Erskineville, Sydney, Australia. The latter performance includes a scene where a plastic "baby doll" (actually a rubber chicken) is hurled into the audience by one of the performing drag queens.

Lyrics:

I've Never Been To Me (R. Miller / K. Hirsch - Motown Records, Inc)

Hey lady, you lady 
Cursing at your life 
You're a discontented mother 
And a regimented wife 
I 've no doubt 
You dream about the things you never do 
But I wish someone had talked to me like I wanna talk to you 

Oh, I've been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run 
Took the hand of a preacher man 
And we made love in the sun 
But I ran out of places and friendly faces 
Because I had to be free 
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me... 

Please lady please lady 
Don't just walk away 
Cause I have this need to tell you 
Why I'm all alone today 
I can see so much of me still living in your eyes 
Won't you share a part of a weary heart that has lived a million lives 

Oh, I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece 
When I sipped champagne on a yacht 
I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo 
And showed them what I've got 
I've been undressed by kings 
And I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'pose to see 
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me... 

Hey, you know what paradise is? 
It's a lie 
A fantasy we created about people and places as we like them to be 
But you know what truth is? 
it's that little baby you're holding 
And it's that man you fought with this morning 
The same one you are gonna make love to tonight 
That's truth, that's love 

Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children 
That might have made me complete 
But I, I took the sweet life 
I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet 
I spent my life exploring 
The subtle whoring 
That costs too much to be free 
Hey lady I've been to paradise 
But I've never been to me... 

I've been to paradise but I've never been to me...

Charlene - I've Never Been To Me (1982 - HD) (With Spoken Bridge)

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I've Never Been To Me · The Temptations

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℗ 1982 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Released on: 1982-01-01

Producer: Ron Miller
Associated  Performer, Recording  Arranger: Ken Hirsch
Composer  Lyricist: Ron Miller
Composer  Lyricist: Ken Hirsch

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