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Single by Neneh Cherry
from the album Raw Like Sushi
Released 1988
Recorded 1988
Genre Hip hop, dance
Length 5:42 (full-length version)
4:07 (7" edit)
Label Virgin
Writer(s) Neneh Cherry, Jamie Morgan, Ramacon, Cameron McVey, Tim Simenon[1]
Producer Tim Simenon ("Bomb the Bass") and Mark Saunders
"Buffalo Stance"
Tim Simenon ("Bomb the Bass") was asked to help with the reworking of the song and Cherry pays homage to Simenon during the song's breaks ("Yeah, Timmy! Tell it like it is!" and "Bomb the Bass, rock this place!").
The title refers to Buffalo, a group of photographers, models, musicians, hair and makeup artists, etc. formed by fashion stylist Ray Petri, of whom Cherry, Morgan and McVey were all members.Thus the meaning is to stand like you are posing for a photo-shoot in a London fashion magazine in the 1980s.
The song's name is also a reference to Malcolm McLaren's 1983 song "Buffalo Gals", which is sampled in "Buffalo Stance". Other samples came from Rock Steady Crew's "Are You Ready?" and the saxophone break came from Miami's 1974 song "Chicken Yellow".
Cherry notably performed the song live on Top of the Pops while seven months pregnant.
Who's that gigolo on the street
With his hands in his pockets and his crocodile feet
Hanging off the curb, looking all disturbed
At the boys from home. They all came running
They were making noise, manhandling toys
That's the girls on the block with the nasty curls
Wearing padded bras sucking beers through straws
Dropping down their drawers, where did you get yours?
Gigolo, Huh, sukka?
Gigolo. Gigolo, Huh, sukka?
Chorus1:
Who's looking good today?
Who's looking good in every way?
No style rookie
You better watch don't mess with me
Chorus2:
No moneyman can win my love
It's sweetness that I'm thinking of.
We always hang in a Buffalo Stance
We do the dive every time we dance
I'll give you love baby not romance
I'll make a move nothing left to chance
So don't you get fresh with me
Get funky. Yeah Timmy.
Tell it like it is. Check out this DJ.
So you say you wanted money but you know it's never funny
When your shoes worn through and there's a rumble in your tummy
But you had to have style get a gold tooth smile
Put a girl on the corner so you can make a pile
Committed a crime and went inside
It was coming your way but you had to survive
When you lost your babe, you lost the race
Now you're looking at me to take her place.
Chorus1
Smokin.' Not cokin.' Get funky sax.
Looking good, hanging with the wild bunch.
Looking good in a Buffalo Stance.
Looking good when it comes to the crunch
Looking good's a state of mind
State of mind don't look behind you
State of mind or you'll be dead
State of mind may I remind you
Bomb the Bass...rock this place!
What is he like? What's he like anway?
Yo' man what do you expect the guy's a gigolo man
You know I mean?
Chorus2 X 2
Wind on my face, sound in my ears
Water from my eyes, and you on my mind
As I sink, diving down deep...deeper into your soul.
Chorus2 to fade...
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