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5	->''"It's a cruel, cruel summer\
6	Leaving me here on my own\
7	It's a cruel, cruel summer\
8	Now you're gone"''
9	-->-- '''Bananarama''', "Cruel Summer"
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11	Bananarama are an all-female UsefulNotes/{{Brit\|ain}}ish pop vocal group from TheEighties. They were among the progenitors of the modern GirlGroup concept on both sides of the pond and led the way for groups like the Music/SpiceGirls, the Music/PussycatDolls and Music/{{Sugababes}}. Their best known hits include "Cruel Summer", forever associated with ''Film/TheKarateKid'', and their CoverVersion of the Shocking Blue's "Venus". The group started as a trio of friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sarah Dallin. Siobhan left in 1988 to form Music/ShakespearsSister with Marcella Detroit, and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991. Fahey returned in April 2017 and left in August 2018. Many of their biggest hits were produced by Music/StockAitkenWaterman.
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13	!! Discography:
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15	* ''Deep Sea Skiving'' (1983)
16	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum [=Bananarama=]]]'' (1984)
17	* ''True Confessions'' (1986)
18	* ''Wow!'' (1987)
19	* ''Pop Life'' (1991)
20	* ''Please Yourself'' (1993)
21	* ''Ultra Violet'' (1995)
22	* ''Exotica'' (2001)
23	* ''Drama'' (2005)
24	* ''Viva'' (2009)
25	* ''In Stereo'' (2019)
26	* ''Masquerade'' (2022)
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28	!! Tropes associated with their works:
29	* BathtubScene: The video for "I Can't Help It" featured scenes of the girls and their male dancers in a milk bath filled with fruit.
30	* BoyishShortHair:
31	** Siobhan sported a short haircut during the mid eighties.
32	** Both Keren and Sara had their hair short during the late eighties and early nineties.
33	* CoverVersion: Several, including Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," Music/TheSupremes' "Nathan Jones," the Music/SexPistols' "No Feelings," the Doobie Brothers' "Long Train Running," and, of course, "Venus."
34	* TheBurlesqueOfVenus: The music video of the cover of "Venus", alongside the sequences of a she-devil, a French woman, a vampire, and several goddesses, comes an homage of Creator/SandroBotticelli's ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus\|Botticelli}}'' surrounded by dancers.
35	* DrugsAreBad: "Hot Line to Heaven" is a song sung about a drug addict who dies because of her addiction.
36	* TheEighties: This was the decade where Bananarama had their highest charting singles.
37	* GirlGroup: The band are successful enough to have the most chart entries in the world for an all-female group.
38	* [[AGodAmI A Goddess Am I]]: "Venus," of course.
39	* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''The Greatest Hits Collection''
40	%% * ICantDance: Frequently lampshaded in their earlier clip shoots (particularly "Cruel Summer"); Dallin referred to their style as "shonky." or on the clumsy end.
41	* NewSoundAlbum: 1991's ''Pop Life,'' which featured {{Reggae}}, acid house and flamenco guitar.
42	* NewWaveMusic: Their first two albums were new wave before the group switched to a dance-pop sound.
43	* RapeAsDrama: Downplayed. This is the actual subject of "Creator/{{Robert De Niro}}'s Waiting," but the band decided not to emphasize it to make it easier for listeners.
44	* RepurposedPopSong: "Venus" has been used in several different TV commercials.
45	* RuleOfCool: With fire, a woman dressed as the devil, a woman with huge bat-like wings, a woman in a beret pushing a man from one table to another, the band dancing and singing, and all those different women being worshipped by men, and a woman in a wedding dress coming out of a casket, and with none of these different elements acknowledging each other, the video for "Venus" runs on this.
46	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Siobhan left in 1988, following her marriage to the Music/{{Eurythmics}}' Dave Stewart, disillusionment with the band's musical direction, and feeling alienated from Keren and Sara, since they had been friends longer than they had been with her.
47	* SillyLoveSongs: "I Heard A Rumour," "Love in the First Degree," etc.
48	* {{Tomboy}}s: This was their early image, and why they turned down Malcolm [=McLaren=]'s offer to manage them and take them in a HotterAndSexier direction. Indeed in their earlier music videos the trio often wore checkered shirts, braces or dungarees.

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