Tenderness (song)

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"Tenderness"
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Single by General Public
from the album All the Rage
ReleasedMay 1984
Recorded1983
GenreNew wave[1]
Length3:35
LabelI.R.S.
Songwriter(s)Mickey Billingham, Ranking Roger, Dave Wakeling
General Public singles chronology
"Dishwasher"
(1984) 		"Tenderness"
(1984) 		"Never You Done That"
(1984)
Music video
"Tenderness" on YouTube

"Tenderness" is a song by General Public from their 1984 album All the Rage, produced by I.R.S. Records.

Content[]

The song's lyrics tell about a man who really needs tenderness to feel like a man. It was one of the band's first singles. The single cover of the extended versions has a sentence reading "words like conviction can turn into a sentence".

In popular culture[]

  • It was used towards the end of the film Weird Science.
  • It was used towards the end of the film Clueless, but not featured on the official soundtrack album.
  • Used during class in a scene from Sixteen Candles (1984).
  • It also appears in the horror film Devil's Due.
  • The band Galactic recorded a cover of the song for their 2003 album Ruckus.
  • American mixed martial artist and former UFC fighter Dave Kaplan used the song as his entrance theme at TUF 8 Finale in 2008.
  • It was also used in the 2011 film Just Go with It, in the movie and in the trailer as a mash-up along with "Umbrella" by Rihanna (which was also heard in the movie).
  • A part of the instrumental was used in commercials for the Target retail chain store in 2007–2011.
  • The song was covered by the band Oberhofer on the soundtrack for Fox Searchlight's Table 19.

Charts[]

Chart (1984–1985) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 50
Canadian Singles Chart 11
UK Singles Chart 95
US Billboard Hot 100 27
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks 39

References[]

  1. ^ "Oberhofer Talks Totally Tubular Covers of Cars, Cyndi Lauper, Wang Chung for 'Table 19' Soundtrack"."...a mixtape of classic 1980s new wave tunes from Cyndi Lauper, A Flock of Seagulls, General Public and Modern English"
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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