Find a song by a short-haired blonde singer.

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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   -  
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Hello,

Please excuse me in advance for the few clues I will leave you, but I can't recall more than what I am going to write.
So here it is, I saw the music video of the song I am talking about on YouTube in October, the song probably dates back to the 90s or 2000s.
It starts with a bass line, then a female singer begins to sing over it. The bass line has quite basic eighth notes, changing chords from time to time, and we remain on the bass/voice duo for almost half of the song before it explodes a bit.
The singer is a girl, with very short platinum blonde hair. I can't remember the name, but I dare to imagine it is androgynous because before I was told during the song "that this girl blah blah blah," I was convinced it was a guy singing!!
In other words, she has a deep voice (but not feminine like Amy Winehouse), but can also hit the high notes (especially in the second part of the song that explodes).
It seems to me that it is a very difficult song to sing (a friend had let me listen to it and told me she learned it for some festival and that it was hard despite her talent).
Unfortunately, I have no lyrics or even a melody in mind, I just seem to recall that the video was bright (lights bursting out? Not sure) and that you could see the face of the singer who looked really more like an effeminate boy than a woman.
So the style is something that plays on the radio, between pop rock/British pop, I don’t really know...
She kind of looks like Pink in my memories, but it can't be her, I would have noticed!
There you go, sorry for the hard question, really hoping someone finds it :)

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Anonymous user
 
K's Choice - Not An Addict ? deep voice platinum hair, bass ?
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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
YEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!
Thank you so much, that's awesome; I'm really happy right now :)
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Anonymous user
 
You're welcome, that's the purpose of the forum :)
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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
Hi!

It doesn't seem like it's her. First of all, the name doesn't ring a bell, and moreover, I had the name of the song and the artist right in front of me while listening, so seeing "Annie," I would not have thought it was a man, I think. But indeed, it is somewhat that kind of haircut; however, the singer seemed younger to me (at least younger than Annie Lennox is in her cover of Hallelujah). I watched some other clips like Why, and that's not it.
By the way, I forgot to mention that it must be an English-speaking singer, in my opinion American (or maybe British, but I don’t think so...)
Thanks anyway!
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Pinetta73
 
I searched on Google extensively and found quite a few singers that fit your criteria, but none of them met all of them! In the end, I searched for a blonde singer on Google Images (I should have started there!) and after elimination, it turned out to be Gwen Stefani, so at that time, it could only be when she was singing with her band No Doubt.
Everything matches.
(I'm looking for the singer first because I've spent three-quarters of my life without a TV!)
Is there a tiny chance it could be that?
Just a link for you to judge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hJmFCBWS0M
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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
It’s possible that it’s indeed that; I had thought of her but I had removed her from my list not knowing she had a band; so this brings it back into play.
I can’t be 100% sure it’s that, but it’s possible as you say; however, it would be under No Doubt and not under Gwen Stefani, so I guess I need to listen to them all. Anyway, when I typed Gwen Stefani clip on YouTube, I didn’t find the one I’m talking about.
So to answer your question eventually, yes, there is a tiny chance that it could be that.
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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
I’m taking the liberty to reply again to say that:
I listened to all of these tracks:
No Doubt: Trapped in a Box
The Beacon Street Collection Squeal · Doghouse
Tragic Kingdom Just a Girl · Spiderwebs · Don't Speak · Excuse Me Mr. · Happy Now? · Sunday Morning · Hey You!
Return of Saturn New · Ex-Girlfriend · Simple Kind of Life · Bathwater
Rock Steady Hey Baby · Hella Good · Underneath It All · Running
Push and Shove Settle Down · Looking Hot · Push And Shove
Considering that the music videos are usually the singles and all of these are their singles.
Anyway, it's none of these tracks, and now I have a doubt because in Gwen Stefani's videos, you can quite quickly see that it's a fast one; is it because the video I’m looking for is really something different? As for the atmosphere, indeed it's rather that kind, although sometimes it seems almost too "heavy" (?)
So that’s where we are, thanks once again.
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Pinetta73
 
Good evening

Pseudonyme1234
Before being totally ridiculous, I made someone close to me listen to Hallelujah (not taken from the most heard one deliberately, among other reasons because there is less doubt, or even no doubt about her voice), and this person thought, at least at the beginning of the song, that it could possibly be a man, so I'm going for it, could it be Annie Lennox (singer of Eurythmics)?
If yes, then it's just a matter of finding the clip!
If no, then it's just a matter of continuing to search!
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Vinc.
 
Yes!!! That's the one I was looking for, thank you.
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Pinetta73
 
Hello

To narrow down the search, how old could she have been in the clip?
& since then, has she done anything to your knowledge?
& if I understand correctly, her name could be both a pseudonym and a name of either gender?
Any detail will be helpful, I’ve made it a challenge for myself!
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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
Hello!

It seems to me that the clip is from the early 90s at the earliest (1995?) and at the latest from the late 2000s (2009?). Yes, I know... 20 years is a lot... :/
I have no idea what she might have done before or after this track, but it seems to me that it's not a band, but rather a single singer (like Amy Winehouse and not Pink Floyd). Maybe the title has something to do with brightness (shiny or something like that?) but I'm not even sure about that, I might be mistaken because I have a memory of a clip that was, indeed, shiny...
Surely the song is about love (like 3/4 of songs in the end).
And yes, in my opinion, she would have a name that could be masculine but English, not Pascal or Dominique; a gender-neutral English name, or maybe a stage name I can't remember...
I'm sorry for not having more details, my brain probably doesn't want me to find this track :/ Anyway, thanks, we’re both facing this challenge now :)
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Livine Posted messages 6784 Status Membre 1 501
 
Hello

Maybe Blondie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPaXy3T50Lw&feature=youtu.be

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Livine Posted messages 6784 Status Membre 1 501
 
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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
Hello

It's neither Blondie nor Yazoo, unfortunately...
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Anonymous user
 
Hello, Sam Brown Stop? Gala? The Cranberries?
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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
Well, Sam Brown and Gala no; The Cranberries, I had indeed thought about it but then I would have no idea what the song could be...
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Livine Posted messages 6784 Status Membre 1 501
 
A clip from The Cranberries that starts with the bass, I immediately think of Zombie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts&feature=youtu.be

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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
No, it would have been too obvious, that's not it either :/
Besides, the piece I'm talking about starts really only with the bass, nothing else, no drums, no effects, no guitars or anything...
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Anonymous user
 
Read

Not convinced at all but since we're at it... Ultra nate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRBkjgXHro

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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
No, the singer I'm talking about is white.
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Anonymous user
 
Or maybe Roxette? (that fits better) ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4

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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
No, but thank you.
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Anonymous user
 
After Yazoo Yazz while we're at it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKADQnjQmc

Taking into account the other responses
I've gone through my playlist :-)

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Pseudonyme1234 Posted messages 12 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2
 
Not that either...
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