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Bangles - "If She Knew What She Wants"
from the album Different Light (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's Song of the Day comes from the all-woman rock band the Bangles, who got some help from "the purple one" as Prince wrote their breakthrough hit "Manic Monday". Their next single, "If She Knew What She Wants", was also written by a critically heralded artist, Jules Shear, whose love song turns more observational as they sing in the third person. The music video was directed by lead singer Susannah Hoffs' mom, Tamar...

"If She Knew What She Wants" became the Bangles' second top-40 pop hit in the U.S. in July of 1986. The single also crossed over to the adult contemporary (or "easy listening") chart at #24. Internationally, the song went top-20 in Germany and Switzerland, and top-40 in England, Australia, and Austria.

And truthfully, it's my favorite single from their Different Light album. The call and response over the jangly guitars just gets me every time.

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Here's Jules Shear's original version of the song from the year before...