There’s so much cocaine in Brian De Palma’s Scarface that once the near-three-hour epic is over, you feel like you’ve been deep in the sesh yourself, chatting breeze, making enemies and rubbing the white stuff all over your face with Al Pacino’s Tony Montana. A guitar-washed, synth-heavy Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack, composed by Giorgio Moroder, definitely boosts that vibe, none more so than Debbie Harry’s ode to cocaine, ‘Rush Rush’. Harry, who had gone solo after Blondie went on hiatus in 1982, happily sung about coke, only using the Spanish slang term of ‘yeyo’ (also spelled ‘illello’) rather than being so blatant. “Rush rush, got the yeyo? / Buzz buzz, gimme yeyo / Rush rush, got the yeyo?” go the lyrics. Some film, some song, some buzz.
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