Tweedlers’ Jukebox Song of the Week – Live it Up
Australian band, Mental As Anything, were already well established in their homeland before taking Europe by storm with this popular eighties hit. It peaked at no.3 in the UK and although the group did not find similar success on these shores after that they were still able to join the eighties hall of fame with one of the undoubted classics of that memorable decade.
Live it Up seems to be from the perspective of a man who has fallen for a woman who has suffered many wrongs in her life. She is not only sad, but lacking in confidence and there are suggestions of a bad relationship behind her which has broken her. Our infatuated narrator is incredulous that she should be so sad when she is not only beautiful but simply astounding in every way. The song is an invitation for her to join with the narrator and enjoy good times but whether she does or not we’ll never know. One of my faves from the eighties.
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