Throwback Thursday: Stacy Lattisaw – “Attack of the Name Game”
Ooh, but can you do Shirley? Why surely.
“Attack of the Name Game” is a cute interaction with a 15-year-old Stacy Lattisaw and an alien who landed on earth ready to drop bars. No one knows how or why that happened.
Released in 1982, the song is something of an updated version of Shirley Ellis’ “The Name Game.” While Stacy is a singer, “Attack of the Name Game” is entirely rapped, which was a somewhat progressive and, dare I say, edgy move in 1982.
Perhaps that edginess was part of the theme for that era. The parent album for “Attack” is called Sneakin’ Out, and below was its album cover.
What a time.
Written by Narada Michael Walden (with Randy Jackson from American Idol on bass), “Attack” peaked at No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100. While most songs that peak that low on the charts are forgotten forever, “Attack” would return as a sample in 1999, when Mariah Carey used that beat (entirely unchanged) for “Heartbreaker,” her 14th No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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