Back in the 80s and most of the 90s, every movie came with an MTV-friendly music video. For The Lost Boys, it was this video for Lou Gramm’s Lost In The Shadows. Lou sings in what appears to be a wooden cage while scenes from the movie play. Music videos that acted as advertisements for movies were a big thing and I always looked forward to seeing them on MTV.
Lou Gramm was the lead singer of Foreigner when he recorded this song. He left Foreigner in 1990, rejoined in 1992, and then left again in 2003. He rejoined the band for a few performance in 2025 during Foreigner’s farewell tour. Lou has survived both drug addiction and a brain tumor and is still performing as a solo artist.
After a week hiatus we’re back to reminiscing about and traveling the 80’s nostalgia track with another “Song of the Day” from my youth during the 1980’s.
This time it’s a power ballad from the British-American hard rock band, Foreigner. Yes, that band whose songs have become a staple of Pop 40’s and soft rock radio stations for a couple decades now were originally a hard rock band. While their popularity was never in doubt with the hard rock crowd of the late 70’s and as the decade rolled into the 80’s, it would take a power ballad to find them worldwide appeal from an audience that one wouldn’t associate with hard rock aficionados.
That song would be “Waiting For A Girl Like You” and this power ballad would be one of the band’s biggest hits and a constant requests on soft rock stations. While hard rock bands were never averse to composing power ballads for albums, they usually weren’t the major hits like their harder edged songs. With Foreigner, once the popularity of this song reached global proportions it would dramatically change the band’s future work.
They would become a band more known for their power ballads than their hard rock roots. Some fans of the early version of Foreigner probably didn’t like the change much, but the millions of new fans who did discover the band due to the never-ending radio airplay of their power ballads probably didn’t know what they were missing.
Now a new generation of music lovers will be discovering this band and this song due to the critically-acclaimed and surprise hit series Stranger Things on Netflix.
Waiting For A Girl Like You
So long I’ve been looking too hard, I’ve been waiting too long Sometimes I don’t know what I will find I only know it’s a matter of time When you love someone When you love someone
It feels so right, so warm and true I need to know if you feel it too
Maybe I’m wrong Won’t you tell me if I’m coming on too strong? This heart of mine has been hurt before This time I wanna be sure
I’ve been waiting for a girl like you To come into my life I’ve been waiting for a girl like you (waiting for a love) And a love that will survive I’ve been waiting (I’ve been waiting) for someone new To make me feel alive Yeah, waiting for a girl like you (waiting for a girl) To come into my life
You’re so good When we make love, it’s understood It’s more than a touch or a word we say Only in dreams could it be this way When you love someone Yeah, really love someone
Now, I know it’s right From the moment I wake up till deep in the night There’s nowhere on earth that I’d rather be Than holding you tenderly
I’ve been waiting for a girl like you To come into my life I’ve been waiting for a girl like you (waiting for a love) For a love that will survive
I’ve been waiting (I’ve been waiting) for someone new To make me feel alive Yeah, waiting (waiting) for a girl like you (waiting for a girl) To come into my life
(Ah)
(Ah) I’ve been waiting (Ah) Waiting for you (Ah) Ooh, I’ve been waiting (Waiting) I’ve been waiting, yeah
(I’ve been waiting for a girl like you)
(I’ve been waiting) Won’t you come into my life? My life So long (Waiting for a girl like you)
