Song: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Artist: Culture Club
Moment: Fourth (?) grade, air band show at school. Our group did Cydni Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," complete with shirts patterned with flourescent paint spatters (the fabric actually came that way; we didn't need to embellish) and Glo-Stick earrings and cardboard guitars fashioned from yardsticks. We rocked. But the thing I really remember was being backstage before we were on. There was a group who were doing this Culture Club song. The Boy George of the group was an "upperclassman," perhaps a 5th or 6th grader. This girl had the look down. I was so impressed by how cool she looked, and later, how well she did the Boy George dance. James Madison Elementary was definitely where it was at.

Submoment: I think it was fall when this song came out too. The first time I caught this video, I was totally convinced that Boy George was a girl (I was only 8 or 9 and wasn't accustomed to boys in makeup just yet), and that he was pretty!