HADDAWAY - "WHAT IS LOVE" from his 1993 album, "Haddaway"
So "What Is Love" is probably best remembered by American 90's kids as those SNL "Night At The Roxbury" characters' fave song when they went to their cheesy Eurotrash-flavored club. Yeah. My favorite 90's pop culture moment involving the infectious dance hit by Trinidadian singer Haddaway can be located in the eleventh episode of TV show "My So-Called Life" called "Life of Brian."
I am a big fan of late 80's/early 90's house and dance music, and learning that Haddaway is Trini (my father's side of the family hails from Trinidad) makes my memories even better. The thing I love best about the song and the way that it was used in "Life of Brian," is that even though the lyrics hint at pain and confusion over relationships, the music itself is ridiculously triumphant, like, as if I'm going to let that shizz get me down.
The episode "Life of Brian" deals with Ricky Vasquez's struggle with his homosexuality. He tries to pretend as if he could entertain being interested in and taking the new girl (whom Brian Krakow rejected) to the school dance, but in the end, he comes to accept who he is, expressed through a thrillingly gay and oddly poignant dance to Haddaway's "What Is Love." If you have seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, it's a thing of beauty:
Did I mention I love this show?
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