Jheri Curl June: Scritti Politti’s “Boom! There She Was”
The last post of Jheri Curl June is always a bittersweet one to write. On the one hand, there's the satisfaction of knowing we have another solid month's worth of...
Jheri Curl June: Dan Hartman’s “We Are the Young”
Few artists exemplify the ability of jheri curl music to cross racial boundaries like Dan Hartman. This is a man who started his career as a sideman for the literal...
Jheri Curl June: Madonna’s “Lucky Star”
Look, I know we called this final week of Jh3ri Curl Jun3 White Boys’ Week, but I think we would be remiss to talk about jheri curl music's appropriators without a shoutout...
Jheri Curl June: Daryl Hall & John Oates’ “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)”
What better way to start White Boy Week here on Jheri Curl June than with the smoothest, most soulful white boy duo, Daryl Hall and John Oates? Hall and Oates began...
Jheri Curl Cinema: Coming to America (1988)
When we decided to expand the focus of Jheri Curl June last year to include cinema, I knew there were two films I absolutely had to write about: Purple Rain and Coming to America....
Jheri Curl June: Loose Ends’ “Watching You”
As we've mentioned in past Jheri Curl Junes, by the end of the 1980s jheri curl music had been overshadowed by fresher genres like hip-hop and New Jack Swing. Loose Ends' 1988...