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Joseph Williams and Steve Lukather talked about this while discussing the "Pamela" video (1988):
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'FEMALE' SONG TITLES
Lots of Toto songs have titles which are female names: => "Rosanna", => "Pamela", "Goodbye Elenore", "Carmen", => "Lea", "Anna"...Joseph Williams and Steve Lukather talked about this while discussing the "Pamela" video (1988):
Luke: People like that kind of stuff - they like to see girls dancing around. Wouldn't you like to see guys dancing around in little bikinis?
Joe: Yeah, male models doing the same things the girls do in the video - bouncing a ball and so on. Or a couple of hunks throwing a football back and forth. And then it would cut back to the band singing about "Ben"...
Luke: Or a guy in a little G-string!!??!! We're going to start using male names for songs since we're running out of female names. We got a review like that - that pretty soon we'll be using names lile Mrytle and Hortense!
Joe: Our next single will be called "Roger"!
Luke: How about "Pete"... [laughing and singing the name "Pete"].
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