Lost In Emotion

This turned out be the biggest hit for the pop trio Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is about a woman who's in love with a man that everyone she knows thinks is wrong for her, but she will disregard them and follow her heart.

Like all of Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam's hits, this was written and produced by Full Force, a Brooklyn-based songwriting/production team who discovered the lead singer in a club when she was a teenager. They got her signed to Columbia Records with the stipulation that no one else would be allowed to produce her. The group first hit American radio in 1985 with the freestyle jam "I Wonder If I Take You Home." Lisa Lisa was working in a clothing store at the time and was surprised to hear herself on the radio while she was folding sweaters. She reluctantly quit her safe retail gig to focus solely on music, and the group followed up their debut single with "Can You Feel The Beat" and "All Cried Out." Their second album, Spanish Fly, featuring the chart-topping hits "Head To Toe" and "Lost In Emotion" peaked at #7 on the albums chart and sold 1 million copies in the US.

This was also a #1 hit on the R&B chart.