Me In Honey – R.E.M
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‘Baby's got some new rules/Baby said she's had it with me/There's a fly in the honey/And baby's got a baby with me/That's a part, that's a part of me’
Losing My Religion was the monster track on R.E.M.’s 1991 album Out of Time, and Shiny Happy People proved to be a somewhat divisive track, which features the backing vocals of B52’s Kate Pierson. That takes us to Me In Honey, where we get the best of Michael Stipe and Pierson in a track Stipe once explained was a “male perspective on pregnancy”, an answer song to 10,000 Maniacs’ Eat For Two. It’s beautifully crafted, and the despair in Stipe’s voice is redolent of the country-folk vitality that helped make R.E.M.’s early albums so compelling.