“What About Love” by Til Tuesday

"What About Love" led 'Til Tuesday into their second album, Welcome Home, in 1986, though the band had wanted "Coming Up Close" out first. Aimee Mann, who wrote it, admitted she loved that one but could hear that "What About Love" landed quicker, a song built for the radio.

She sings it and plays bass, with Robert Holmes on guitar, Joey Pesce on synthesizer and piano, both of them adding backing vocals, and Michael Hausman on drums and percussion. Rhett Davies produced and Bruce Lampcov mixed. It climbed to 26 on the Hot 100, and the video, directed by Ken Ross and Richard Levine on an upstate New York estate with both 35mm and Super 8 cameras, went into power rotation on MTV. Even so, neither the album nor its singles met what Epic or the band had hoped for.

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