Read My Lips (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Read My Lips

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Caption =
Artist = Melissa
Album = Fresh
B-side = "Say Goodbye"
Released = Start date|1991|5|27 (Australia)
Format = 12", cassette, CD
Recorded = 1991 at Powerhouse Studios, Sydney, Australia
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:43
Label = Phonogram
Writer = Tony King, Roy Nicolson
Producer = Leon Berger
Audio sample? =
Certification = Platinum (ARIA)
Last single =
This single = "Read My Lips" (1991)
Next single = "Sexy (Is the Word)" (1991)
Misc ="Read My Lips" is a pop song written by Tony King and Roy Nicolson, produced by Leon Berger for Melissa's first album "Fresh" (1992). It was released as the albums first single in Australia as a CD single on May 27, 1991. Staring as Nikki Spencer on the Australian soap opera E Street at the time the song was released, it became Melissa's first and only number-one hit.

"Read My Lips" was the only number-one hit in 1991 by a solo female Australian singer and was nominated for tow ARIA Awards. The song debuted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on June 3, 1991 at number forty-one. [http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Melissa+%28AU%29&titel=Read+My+Lips&cat=s MELISSA (AU) - READ MY LIPS (SINGLE) (284275)] . "Australian-charts.com". Retrieved June 16 2007.] After just six weeks of being in the charts, the song had made its way to number-one knocking "The Grease Megamix" off the top spot. It stayed there for another week but then was knocked off the top by "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams. "Read My Lips" became Melissa's highest selling single of her career spending eighteen weeks in the top fifty, certiying platinum by ARIA, becoming the six highest selling single for 1991 [http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-50-singles-1991.htm ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 50 Singles 1991] . "ARIA Charts". Retrieved June 16 2007.] and won an ARIA Award for "Highest Selling Single" for 1992 [http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=M&artist=Melissa Melissa Awards data] . "ARIA". Retrieved June 3 2007.] .

Tkautz has commented that, at the time that she recorded the song, she was a virgin who had no idea of the true meaning of the song's racy lyrics and didn't understand why she was criticised in the media for presenting an overtly sexual image. While maintaining good humour around everything about the track, Melissa generally declines to perform it today.fact|date=February 2008

Track listing

;CD and cassette single
# "Read My Lips" — 3:48
# "Say Goodbye" — 4:59

;12" inch LP
*Side A
# "Read My Lips" (12" inch remix) — 6:08
*Side B
# "Say Goodbye" — 4:59
# "Read My Lips" — 3:44

Charts

References