Shakespear’s Sister – Stay

Aw, the 90s, so much to answer for! You guys must’ve remember this gem of a video called “Stay” by Shakespear’s Sister?

This song doesn’t get interesting until the bad girl/Bananarama singer, Siobhan Fahey, shows up in the middle of the song, declaring:

You better hope and pray
That you make it safe back to your own world

Shakespear’s Sister – Stay

They got their name from The Smiths’ song “Shakespeare’s Sister”, which was a reference to Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own”. Their originally name was Shakespeare’s Sister, until someone who was making a woodcut of their name had misspelled it as Shakespear’s Sister.

Strangely enough: I’ve got all three albums of their official albums, with the third one not including Marcella Detroit. #3 is actually pretty good, but then again, I’ve always prefer Siobhan’s singing style over Marcella (which is almost too sweet).

I don’t know what it is with goth culture, but whenever I see Siobhan’s imagery, it reminds me of Neil Gaiman’s Death and Joseph Linsner’s Cry for Dawn, which I’ll include pictures for your reference here.

Death and Dawn

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French and Saunders do Shakespear’s Sister

buster wrote: Jul 10, 2007 10:46 PM

i will never hear this song without thinking of the french & saunders parody for the rest of my life. i won’t link to it, but it’s on youtube if you’re curious.