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Song for Whoever
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Wikipedia article
"'Song for Whoever'" is a song by English music group the Beautiful South, written by band members Paul Heaton and David Rotheray. The first and highest-charting single from their debut album, 'Welcome to the Beautiful South', it peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in July 1989 and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry. Considered typical of the band's gently subversive, self-reflexive signature style, it is sung from the point of view of a cynical songwriter who romances women solely to get material for love songs.
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The music video for the song features a blancmange as the main character. Heaton said, "The blancmange is probably the best thing that's happened to the band so far. The idea is that there's this conveyor belt and all these pop stars come down it and get rejected by the record company people that then choose a blancmange. The blancmange goes on to be a big star but it all pretty much ends up in blancmange misery."
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Category:1989 debut singles
Category:1989 songs
Category:The Beautiful South songs
Category:Go! Discs singles
Category:List songs
Category:Pop ballads
Category:Satirical songs
Category:Song recordings produced by Mike Hedges
Category:Songs written by David Rotheray
Category:Songs written by Paul Heaton
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