Happy weekend!
Your Wonkette friends are back from the Republican National Convention safe and sound and only a little bit worse for wear (well, Evan and Dok are still traveling due to “airports.” Good luck Evan and Dok!). Did you miss us?
Anyway! Today, like last week, is a fairly uneventful day in history, but it is the birthday of one Kim Carnes — who, as we all know, sang the classic “Bette Davis Eyes,” a song I have always had a lot of thoughts and questions about. Like, I am a very big Bette Davis fan, and I think her eyes were certainly unique, but I’m not sure that “You have eyes like Bette Davis” would be a compliment. I think they’d look weird on other people! I can’t picture it.
What I also didn’t know was that Carnes was not the first person to sing this song — the original was a very, very different song, written and performed by one Jackie DeShannon.
And I’m not gonna lie — it does unease me.
I’m not saying it’s bad, but it is kind of surreal the way it sounds like a Postmodern Jukebox cover but is in fact the original. Who knew!
And, of course, here is the cover we all have come to know and love.
Enjoy!
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