Today I learned that the person singing the vocals to this song is a woman.
I also learned that the rap part of this song is done by a white guy. Here’s the rap.
Whale oil beef hucked
Allison Moyet. And the keyboard player was a founding member of Depeche Mode.
Holy shit, TIL too!
I have a bunch of these I-didn’t-know-about-this-song facts, but I made a thread about it, so I don’t want to repeat myself.
Wait! I looked up that thread and another HOLY SHIT moment. That thread is almost 9 freakin’ years old!!! Hey, you participated in it, monstro. Just saying so I don’t feel old all by myself.
Thanks for the reminder! 
You wouldn’t happen to have a link to that ancient thread, would you? I can’t remember what I said.
What I didn’t know about the singer of these songs.
What kills me is I totally remember writing the OP but, dang, not how LONG AGO I did it!
Honestly, nine years ago doesn’t seem that long ago to me. And yet I can’t remember writing any of those posts. So I am definitely old now!
It’s a shame that most of the links in that thread are dead, but Jackie Blue was sung by a man? head explodes
It always sounded like a man to me. But I couldn’t figure out the gender of the lead singer of Spiral Starecase’s More Today Than Yesterday until I looked it up. As a hint, I will tell you that the name of the lead singer, who also wrote the song, is Pat.
One that completely fooled me is"Oh How Happy" by Shades of Blue. I would have bet my house they were black.
Alison Moyet was a huge hit in the 80s, then she went off grid for a while, but when she returned recently she looked very different.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Indeep, but without knowing who it was, I would have guessed Chic.
I grew up in the 80’s but listening to a lot of 70’s music. Some time in the early 90’s I got a record player and wore out a lot of my dad’s old records, especially his CTA/Chicago albums.
Many, many years later, youtube showed up and I was very surprised to learn that the singer from Chicago (specifically Terry Kath) wasn’t black. I don’t know if it was how deep his voice was or the way that he sang, but it took me a while to wrap my head around it. Here’s a great example.
I thought I started a thread about it here (or asked in another thread) just to make sure what I was hearing on the records was the same person I was seeing in the videos, but I’m not finding it right now.