Too Shy

"Too Shy" is a song written and recorded by the English pop band Kajagoogoo, released in January 1983. The first single from their debut studio album White Feathers, the song was an immediate hit and reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart for two weeks. It was also very successful in other European countries and Japan, spending five weeks at No. 1 in Germany, also reaching No. 1 in Belgium and Ireland, as well as reaching No. 2 in France and Switzerland, and No. 4 in Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands. In the UK, it became the 13th best-selling single of 1983.^[7]

Assisted by heavy rotation on MTV, the song later became a success in the United States, peaking at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.^[8] "Too Shy" is Kajagoogoo's only significant hit in the US, where the band is widely regarded as a one-hit wonder. In the UK, Kajagoogoo had further hits, including two more top 10 singles: "Ooh to Be Ah" and "Big Apple", both in 1983.

"Too Shy" was written by Kajagoogoo and produced by Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes and Colin Thurston, the latter of whom had produced Duran Duran's first two albums. In 2006, "Too Shy" was ranked No. 27 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's^[9] and No. 9 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s.^[10]

The music video directed by Simon Milne, cast model Carolyn Espley (later wife of Dennis Miller) as a waitress cleaning up a nightclub at the end of the night. As the band performs the song on the club stage, she has visions of dancers from different eras populating the dance floor.

The song was an immediate hit, topping the UK singles chart for two weeks.^[11] It spent five weeks at No. 1 in Germany, and reaching No. 2 in Switzerland, and No. 4 in Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands.^[12] The song was also a top 10 hit in the United States during the summer of 1983.

La cara B del maxi single de 12", "Take Another View", un tema que no figuraba en ningún álbum y que a menudo se interpretaba en directo, se incluyó en la reedición de 2004 de White Feathers , que contenía varios temas extra, incluida la versión instrumental de "Too Shy", que aparecía originalmente en las caras B de los singles de 7 y 12 pulgadas.

La versión extendida de la canción, titulada "Midnight Mix", se puede escuchar en el videojuego de Rockstar Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories , reproducida en la estación de radio del juego Wave 103. También aparece como una cinta de casete coleccionable en Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain . Una versión en Simlish de la canción también aparece en el paquete de expansión de Los Sims 2 , Los Sims 2: Open for Business . ^{[ 42 ]} La canción también aparece en la película interactiva de Black Mirror Bandersnatch en Netflix . ^{[ 43 ]} También se puede escuchar en la película de 1998 The Wedding Singer durante la escena de la fiesta de compromiso.

• Lista de los éxitos número uno de 1983 (Alemania)
• Lista de los sencillos número uno de 1983 (Irlanda)
• Lista de sencillos que alcanzaron el número uno en las listas británicas durante la década de 1980.

• " Too Shy " en Discogs (lista de lanzamientos)