Soft Cell
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The protagonist of “Tainted Love” is ready to cry and run away: “I love you, even though you hurt me so much.” What Suicide was for rock’n’roll in the USA at the end of the 70s, the keyboard Voice duo Soft Cell in Great Britain for the soul: modernization through electrification!
Gay boys like to play drama queens, so Marc Almond gives the maxi version the Diana: In a whopping eight minutes, “Tainted Love” frames a Supremes classic about faded love: “Where Did Our Love Go?”