Comments on: 1988 Countdown #70: Debbie Gibson, “Out of the Blue” http://rulefortytwo.com/2009/05/15/1988-countdown-70-debbie-gibson-out-of-the-blue/ The Self-Aggrandizing Website of Gavin Edwards Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:43:04 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Gavin http://rulefortytwo.com/2009/05/15/1988-countdown-70-debbie-gibson-out-of-the-blue/#comment-845 Gavin Sun, 17 May 2009 15:42:20 +0000 http://rulefortytwo.com/2009/05/15/1988-countdown-70-debbie-gibson-out-of-the-blue/#comment-845 I believe we'll be seeing a similar hat on George Michael's head, whenever the video for "Monkey" rolls around on this countdown. I believe we’ll be seeing a similar hat on George Michael’s head, whenever the video for “Monkey” rolls around on this countdown.

]]> By: Chris M. http://rulefortytwo.com/2009/05/15/1988-countdown-70-debbie-gibson-out-of-the-blue/#comment-842 Chris M. Fri, 15 May 2009 17:59:32 +0000 http://rulefortytwo.com/2009/05/15/1988-countdown-70-debbie-gibson-out-of-the-blue/#comment-842 <i>Non-Threatening Boys</i> for the win. The girl-with-hat look, refined to perfection by Molly Ringwald, was definitely an ’80s fashion trope -- but wasn't Gibson about three years too late with it here? There's another way in which she was adorably out of date. The girl grew up on Lawn Guyland, but you'd think she was from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Ice_Man" rel="nofollow">Des Moines</a>. Non-Threatening Boys for the win.

The girl-with-hat look, refined to perfection by Molly Ringwald, was definitely an ’80s fashion trope — but wasn’t Gibson about three years too late with it here? There’s another way in which she was adorably out of date.

The girl grew up on Lawn Guyland, but you’d think she was from Des Moines.

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