All around the world

All Around the World (Lisa Stansfield, 1989) This is a fun song that's certainly not among the best on my IPod. The text is not very interesting on first sight either. But it is interesting that this is an objective song about a break-up. Stansfield just gives the facts of what happened and at no point in the song does she take sides about who was wrong or right. They both were equally wrong, she basically says.




Well, I've never seen this video before, but it's quite boring. What it does seem to say though is that the blame for the break-up lies more with her, then with him. When she sings 'I did too much lying' we see her surrounded by a lot of men, this implying that she slept around quite a bit. That she is not someone you can rely on becomes obvious that, while she sings that she'll go around the world to find her baby, in this clip, she doesn't get much further then her front door. Again like she says in her song, she says too many things she doesn't mean.