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Laura Branigan - Self Control

submitted by Stingray

1 decade 5 years 8 months 1 week ago

The song narrates the singer's slip into the world of nightlife, the allure of which has her "livin' only for the night" and deeming herself to "live among the creatures of the night". Rather than actually invoking control over herself, the singer repeatedly declares to a phantom protagonist that that "you take my self, you take my self control". The song was written by Raffaele Riefoli.

This song was used as a track from fictional radio station, Flash FM, on video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. This song enjoyed success in both the UK and the US, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the UK Singles Chart.

This text was quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Control_(song)

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Moving this video to Stingray's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Loved the song back in the 80s and it was a great fit for GTA. Hope you get this sifted soon.

Well none of that was strange was it? Phantom of the Opera masks, dolls, people running about in spandex, suggestions of kinkyness and the dude who keeps dematerialising. I love it!¬

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Moving this video to Stingray's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote

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Moving this video to Stingray's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Oh for pete's sake, *promote

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'laura branigan, self control, 1983' to 'laura branigan, self control, 1983, 80s' - edited by Deano

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by mintbbb.

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