Wednesday, March 02, 2022

Retro Video of the Week: "Point of No Return" by Exposé

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the release of Exposé's debut album, Exposure, which one might argue is one of the most successful debut albums of the late '80s, at least in the sense of chart success of singles from the album.  For the last few years of the '80s, Exposé was hugely popular and successful.

Exposure itself only reached #16 on the Billboard album chart, but it went triple platinum in the U.S. and became the first debut album by a group to have four Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 (Cyndi Lauper had previously done it as a solo artist).  The songs were:  "Seasons Change" (#1), "Come Go with Me" (#5), "Point of No Return" (#5), and "Let Me Be the One" (#7).  In fact, the group's first seven singles overall would reach the Top 10.

I'm going with "Point of No Return" because it's just so damn late '80s.  With the first measure, I'm basically transported back to fourth grade, listening to Z-95 on my boom box in my room every day after school while I did my homework.  And the video is perfectly '80s as well, with the members of the group and their teased hair, huge earrings, and neon tank tops.

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