YMMV / Bananarama

• Broken Base: The girls' 1987 album, WOW! was their most commercially successful album, expanding their fanbase, but some people who had been fans for years disliked that Stock Aitken Waterman, themselves a contentious team of producers due to their omnipresence on the UK pop charts in the '80s, made their musical style more mainstream.
• Covered Up:
  • Shocking Blue's original of "Venus" was a huge hit in its day, but even that hasn't stopped it from being eclipsed by Bananarama's cover.
  • At least in the UK, Bananarama's version of "Really Saying Something" is much better known than the Velvelettes' original (which was never a hit there).
  • In a case where they were on the receiving end of this, "Young at Heart" is so strongly associated with The Bluebells that most people don't realise Bananarama did it first.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Siobhan was generally the more popular of three with most fans agreeing that the group wasn't quite as good after she left.
• Signature Song: Either "Venus" or "Cruel Summer".
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "I Heard a Rumour" has alot of similarities to another Eurobeat song, "Give Me Up", by Italian singer Michael Fortunati, which was a big hit in Japan, the year prior. They have identical chords, and similar percussion arrangements, structures and main melodies. Mike Stock denied their was any actual sampling of the track, claiming it was merely based on Europop trends of the late 1980s.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Cheers Then", a ballad describing the break-up of a friendship. The original trio felt emotional performing the track at their reunion tour in 2017-2018, followed by a cover of "Stay" by Shakespear's Sister.
  • "Love, Truth and Honesty" is a fan favourite, as for an upbeat Stock Aitken Waterman song, it is lyrically rather heartbreaking.

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