SHEENA EASTON - STURT

STURT

SHEENA EASTON

SONGWRITERS: DORE CHARLIE & LITTMAN JULIAN NICHOLAS HUGH

COUNTRY: u.s.a.

ALBUM: A Private Heaven

LABEL: EMI AMERICA

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1984

"Strut" is a song recorded by Sheena Easton for her album A Private Heaven(1984). It was released by EMI America in August 1984 as the album's lead single and peaked that November at #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (its Cash Box peak was #4). "Strut" was composed by singer/songwriter Charlie Dore (who had had a moderate solo hit of her own in the U.S. with "Pilot of the Airwaves" several years prior) and her longtime songwriting partner, Julian Littman.

Easton had been sent the demo for the song by Christopher Neil who had been Easton's first producer. Like its parent album overall, the "Strut" single and accompanying video signaled Easton's shift towards a more sexually suggestive image.

The song appears to be about the singer being upset with a man for wanting her to be like a previous lover, and about the sexism of men in general for wanting or expecting women to behave in a certain fashion ("Strut, pout/Put it out/That's what you want from women").

"Strut" was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 27th Grammy Awards.

In the UK - where "Strut" was released in November 1984 - the track became the first US Top 40 single by Easton to completely miss the Top 100 of the UK charts.

"Strut" was one of two songs performed by Easton at the opening ceremonies of Expo 86 in Vancouver 2 May 1986 (her second song was "For Your Eyes Only").

In 1986 Easton, dressed as a geisha, performed "Strut" in a Japanese TV commercial for shōchū.

Sheena Shirley Easton(née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and songwriter. She is a dual British-American citizen. Easton came into the public eye in an episode of the first British musical reality television programme The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.

Easton's first two singles, "Modern Girl" and "9 to 5", both entered the UK Top Ten, and she was the first UK female artist to appear twice in the same Top Ten since Ruby Murray. In 1981, "9 to 5" (retitled "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" for the US market) topped the US Hot 100, making her the third UK female solo artist to achieve this, following Petula Clark and Lulu, and she became one of the most successful British female performers of the 1980s.

A six-time Grammy nominee in the U.S., Easton is a two-time Grammy Award winner, winning Best New Artist in 1982 and Best Mexican-American Performance in 1985, for her duet with Luis Miguel on the song "Me Gustas Tal Como Eres". She has received five U.S. Gold albums and one U.S. Platinum album. She has recorded 16 studio albums, released 45 singles total worldwide, and had 20 consecutive US singles, including 15 U.S. Top 40 singles, seven U.S. top tens and one U.S. No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1981 and 1991. She also had 25 top 40 hits in international territories around the world. In Canada, Easton scored three gold and two platinum albums. She has sold over 20 million records and singles worldwide.

Easton became the first recording artist in history to have a Top 5 hit on each of Billboard's primary singles charts, with "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" (both pop and adult contemporary), "We've Got Tonight" with Kenny Rogers(country) and "Sugar Walls" (both R&B and dance).

Easton's other hits include the James Bond theme "For Your Eyes Only", "Strut", "U Got the Look" and "The Arms of Orion" with Prince, "The Lover in Me" and "What Comes Naturally". She has worked with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Luis Miguel, L.A. Reid & Babyface, Patrice Rushen and Nile Rodgers.

He said, "Baby, what's wrong with you?

Why don't you use your imagination?"

(Oh no, oh no)

"Nations go to war over women like you

It's just a form of appreciation"

"Come on over here, lay your clothes on the chair

Now let the lace fall across your shoulder"

(Oh no, oh no)

"Standing in the half-light, you're almost like her

So take it slow like your daddy told ya"

Strut, pout, put it out

That's what you want from women

Come on, baby, whatcha takin' me for?

Strut, pout, cut it out

All takin' and no givin'
Watch me baby, while I walk out the door

I said, "Honey, I don't like this game

You make me feel like a girl for hire"

(Oh no, oh no)

"All this fascination with leather and lace

Is just the smoke from another fire"

He said, "Honey, don't stop a speeding train

Before it reaches it destination"

(Oh no, oh no)

"Lie down here beside me, oh, have some fun too

Don't turn away from your true vocation"

Strut, pout, put it out

That's what you want from women

Come on, baby, whatcha takin' me for?

Strut, pout, cut it out

All takin' and no givin'

Watch me baby, while I walk out the door

I won't be your baby doll

Be your baby doll

I won't be your baby doll

Be your baby doll

Strut, pout, put it out

That's what you want from women

Come on, baby, whatcha takin' me for?

Strut, pout, cut it out

All takin' and no givin'

Watch me baby, while I walk out the door

Strut, pout, put it out

That's what you want from women

Come on, baby, whatcha takin' me for?

Strut, pout, cut it out

All takin' and no givin'

Watch me baby, while I walk out the door.