Buffalo stance

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Buffalo stance
  DE 2 01/23/1989 (20 weeks)
  AT 7th 02/15/1989 (14 weeks)
  CH 2 02/12/1989 (12 weeks)
  UK 3 December 10, 1988 (13 weeks)
  US 3 04/01/1989 (24 weeks)

Buffalo Stance is a 1988 song by Neneh Cherry , written by herself with her future husband Cameron McVey, Ramacon and Morgan. The track was produced by Tim Simenon and Mark Saunders. It appeared on the album Raw Like Sushi .

history

An earlier version of the song appeared in 1986 on the B-side of the single Looking Good Diving by the duo Morgan-McVey, which consisted of Jamie Morgan and Cameron McVey. The A-side song, Looking Good Diving With The Wild Bunch , was sung by Cherry and produced by the UK production team Stock Aitken Waterman . Cherry was seen playing the guitar in the accompanying music video .

The title of the song Buffalo Stance refers to a group of photographers, models, musicians, hairdressers and make-up artists etc. called Buffalo . This group was founded by stylist Ray Petri. Cherry, Morgan and McVey were members of the group. The song is about posing at a photoshoot for a London fashion magazine in the 1980s. The title of the song is also a reference to Malcolm McLaren's song Buffalo Gals , which is sampled in Buffalo Stance .

In the song, elements of electronic dance music are mixed with hip-hop .

The release of Buffalo Stance took place in November 1988th The song meant Cherry's international breakthrough; it reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and number 3 in the United Kingdom . The title became a number one hit in the American dance and club charts, as well as in the Netherlands and Sweden .

The song later appeared on a radio station for the game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories . Also in the film Slaves of New York by James Ivory , the song was used.

Cherry released numerous remix versions and revised versions of their hit , making it still a popular club classic. In 2010, the Kuduro version of the Portuguese-Angolan band Buraka Som Sistema regained popularity in Europe.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sources chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Kathryn Flett: The man who dressed a decade. In: The Observer . September 17, 2000, accessed November 2, 2012 .