PHYSICAL by Juliana Hatfield

Three years after starring opposite John Travolta in Grease, Olivia Newton-John released “Physical,” the title track from her twelfth studio album. It became the British-born Australian singer’s biggest hit in America by far, ruling Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart for 10 weeks — an especially impressive achievement in an era before streaming came along and elongated the reign of the average #1 hit.

It’s not hard to see why people loved “Physical” so much. For one thing, the song’s lyrical wordplay and music video have a lot of fun turning exercise (and ’80s workout videos) into a sexual euphemism. But mostly it’s just a master class in pop songwriting, with verses carried along by a bopping new wave rhythm and a chorus buoyed by one of those hooks you don’t mind getting stuck in your head for days on end. The guitar solo and low-key saxophone accents are rad, too. I look forward to that moment a couple years from now when my colleague Tom Breihan’s daily blog series The Number Ones makes its way to 1981 and he expounds on this song’s glory.

Fortunately, none of us have to wait for Tom to blog about “Physical” to appreciate Newton-John’s signature anthem — mostly because it’s a great song readily available on your streaming service of choice, but also because alternative rock hero Juliana Hatfield has covered it for her upcoming album Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia-Newton John.

The project is rather unexpected given that Newton-John and Hatfield operated in completely different musical spheres when they were young, the former a paragon of pop plasticity, the latter an icon of the indie-pop underground. But the gap between those worlds has closed a lot since then, and as Hatfield tells it, the distance between them was never so far as some people liked to suggest. “I have never not loved Olivia Newton-John,” Hatfield wrote in a statement announcing the album. “Her music has brought me so much pure joy throughout my whole entire life. I loved her when I was a child and I love her still.”

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Après A LITTLE MORE LOVE, Juliana Hatfield dévoile à travers un nouveau clip...  sa version du célèbre PHYSICAL d'Olivia Newton-John ... dans un style qui se veut plus "indé" ! .. mais pas assez à mon gout !
Je salue vraiment son travail, sa motivation,  son courage de s'exposer aux foudres des critiques des fans d'ONJ mais pas que .. et surtout proclamer son admiration, par le biais de son propre talent artistique ..,  pour cette chanteuse un peu beaucoup sous estimé qui fait le bonheur de ce blog ... un peu tout les jours ...
Ses reprises ne feront pas date dans ma discothèque ... mais bon ..

my tribute to olivia newton-john will be released on april 13th--pre-order info here: https://t.co/s3iUax1dYj

— Juliana Hatfield (@julianahatfield) 1 mars 2018

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CONCERT

ONJ débute sa mini tournée .. peut on parler de tournée d'ailleurs .. en tout cas elle donne un récital ce soir au Luther Burbank Center for the Arts ...

Tonight English-Australian singer,and four-time Grammy award winner Olivia Newton-John will be at #YourLBC! Enjoy a night of hits such as “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” “Physical,” “Have You Never Been Mellow,” Summer Nights” and more!

Une publication partagée par Luther Burbank Center (@lbcsoco) le 1 Mars 2018 à 10 :00 PST

Tonight English-Australian singer,and four-time Grammy award winner Olivia Newton-John will be at #YourLBC! Enjoy a night of hits such as “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” “Physical,” “Have You Never Been Mellow,” Summer Nights” and more! pic.twitter.com/ifsv1OBaNr

— lutherburbankcenter (@lbcsoco) 1 mars 2018