Radio silence broken – is anybody out there?

Hello, hello. Turn your radio on.

I’ve been thinking a lot about that song lately. I first discovered Shakespear’s Sister when I was 13 and heard ‘You’re History’ on a cassette copy of Now 16 that I borrowed from the library, and their music literally saved my life when I was a teenager. But the one song of theirs I never really gelled with was ‘Hello (Turn your Radio On).’ There was something about it that made me deeply uncomfortable. A kind of existential dread it provoked in me that made me ...