I remember visiting one of the college bookstores for the first time in 1989 and being impressed with its music selection; it contained a fair amount of good jazz and rock on LPs and cassettes. Inexplicably, however, in the rock cassettes section, there was a huge row of "White Feathers" cassettes by Kajagoogoo, the group whose sole hit was "Too Shy" in 1983. No other cassette in any category was stocked so heavily. I still wonder to this day whose leap of faith it was that college students would be clamoring for "Too Shy" six years later, to the extent that they'd buy the album. If ever there were an '80s tune whose synthesizer arrangement, mysterious vocals, and chorus qualify for the persistent earworm alert label...
...If you were around when "Too Shy" was a hit, you're probably remembering it now. Admittedly, there's a bit of a strange, not-so-timeless appeal to the tune. Perhaps it's the "Hush, hush, eye to eye" refrain; I'm still not sure. Then again, that's the nature of one-hit wonders; a song's appeal sometimes defies explanation. The song actually doesn't have much in the way of lyrics, and somehow, it kind of works.
