MB was trippin when he whined the lyrics.
Branigan sounds angry and heartbroken, which is appropriate for the lyrics.
I have no idea whether they're gonna be sung well, whether they'll be produced well, whether any of them will even be singles. He told Bruce Pollock around this time: "Right now I've got songs on about 12 or 13 albums.
With Blackjack, he wrote the song "Love Me Tonight," which made #62 in 1979, but didn't crack the Hot 100 again until Branigan did "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You."īolton would soon take matters into his own hands and become a soft rock superstar performing his own songs, but in the mid-'80s he was just trying to write some hits. He was in the midst of a career transformation, having fronted the rock band Blackjack in 1979-1980 while still using his real name: Michael Bolotin. When Laura Branigan took this song to #12 in 1983, it marked Michael Bolton's first big hit as a songwriter.