Help me name that song #2

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Inspired by other thread with hardly any detail.

I’m American. Was in Rome at an Irish pub with karaoke. An 80s pop song came on and all the British and Scottish people I was with knew every word. It was upbeat and I loved it. But I’d never heard it before. We are all the same age so I know all of the English music that was popular in the US in the 80s.

I’ll listen to anything you suggest here and see if that’s it.

Come in OP, I'm probably more frustrated than you are!!

Def not Proclaimers - that was super popular here and I sang it at the top of my lungs in my car pretty much daily. And this song wasn’t quite that fast.

Not Tainted Love. That I also know well.

I’ll check out a few Pogues songs. But I don’t think it was one of theirs.

Not these:
Dead or Alive.
Aha.
Culture Club
Human League
Rick Astley

I’ll check out Black Lace and then the others now and report back immediately.

I don’t know any lyrics. We were all 3 sheets to the wind and it was a few years back so they won’t remember either.

Not Duran Duran for sure. Love them.

Not the Black Lace song. That’s super fun but this one wasn’t so silly!

I think it was a woman. Forgive me for just now thinking about that.

Bonnie Tyler, total eclipse of the heart?

T’pau, China in your hand?

Or Bonnie Tyler - Lost in France?

Cyndi Lauper - Girls just wanna have fun
Joan Jett - I love rock and roll

Bewitched
Sclub7
Steps
Spice girls

Annie Lennox - Sweet Dreams are made of this.
(Just remembered Lost in France is more late 70s. Catchy, though) '

Mel and Kim - Respectable

Not China in Your Hand, just listened and had not heard that one ever.
Not Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett or Annie Lennox. Not Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse but I’ll check out Lost in France.

I’ll check out the ones from @Skinandbones, but def not Spice Girls.

99 red balloons by Nena?

Walking on sunshine by Katrina and the waves?

Yesterday by Strawberry switchblade?

Breakout by Swing out sister?

Could it have been something by ABBA or Fleetwood Mac (female singers but not female bands.)
People of a certain age would know all the words to loads of ABBA songs.
And another Bonnie Tyler one - It's a Heartache.

Late 70s but Gloria gaynor I wil survive
Or weather girls it's raining men

Were they dancing? Arms around each others' shoulders as swaying, or jumping?

Could it have been Kylie Minogue?she was never as big in America and most brits will know all her big songs.” I should be so lucky”

Any Kate Bush?

Together in Electric Dreams by Phil Oakey or Live it up by Mental as Anything? (both from films mind you so might've been well known in US!)

Sorry just saw it was a female singer.

A New England by Kirsty MacColl or Crash by the Primitives?

Living next door to Alice (Alice, who the fuck is Alice!)

Build me up buttercup?

I love rock n roll by joan jett?