The '80s were all about new wave and pop tracks that had fans on the dance floor all night long. In the summer of 1981, the Go-Go's released a popular song that didn't top the charts or reach No. 1, but was seen as one of the best of the era.
"Our Lips Are Sealed" was a power pop track released by the Go-Go's, written by guitarist Jane Wiedlin and the Specials singer Terry Hall. It was released as their debut single before it became the opening track for their first album, Beauty and the Beast.
The song peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and No. 15 on the Top Rock Tracks chart. It also landed at No. 10 on Billboard's Disco Top 80 chart. In a list by Rolling Stone of the Best Songs of the '80s, they listed "Our Lips Are Sealed" as No. 7. They called the release of the debut single "making every other band seem hopelessly boring."
What made the track so much more interesting was its backstory. According to American Songwriter, The Specials and the Go-Go's were on tour together when Wiedlin started a brief affair with Hall. She would tell Rolling Stone that it was "a dramatic, traumatic, long-distance romance," especially since Hall was in a relationship at the time.
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Some reports state Hall had a girlfriend, while others call her his fiancée. Wiedlin stated that "He had a fiancée at the time — nowadays I wouldn’t touch that with a 10-foot pole, but I was 19, and I was like, fiancée schmiancée, man." She would add that Hall had sent her lyrics through the mail that were "kind of about our relationship," and liked them so much that she finished them and wrote music to them. The rest was history.
"Our Lips Are Sealed" was credited to both musicians, with the song's title being self-explanatory once knowing how it came to be. Some time later, Fun Boy Three, which Hall was also a part of, released their own version of the track. Wiedlin called it a good song, but it had a gloomier edge than the Go-Go's version.
The track was also covered decades later by Hilary and Haylie Duff for the soundtrack of the 2004 film A Cinderella Story. It did well amongst fans, with critics calling it a "sugary" cover of the original.
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