What sounds like a hit to the audience might not sound like a hit to the singer, which is what happened with the 1980s chart-topper that Tiffany never actually wanted to record. The young pop singer didn\u2019t think the song showcased her vocal abilities well enough, nor did she think a song first written in 1967 was \u201ccool\u201d enough to enter the charts two decades later in 1987.<\/p>\n
Then, one fateful night, Tiffany\u2019s friends convinced her otherwise without even trying.<\/p>\n
Tiffany Never Wanted To Record This Pop Hit<\/p>\n
When Tiffany first entered the music industry, it was clear that her target demographic should be teenagers, namely, because she was one herself. So, Tiffany and her team devised a plan that was unlike anything the music business had seen before: a promotional tour of shopping malls across the country. The tour was highly effective in getting Tiffany\u2019s music to younger crowds, the vast majority of whom spent their time hanging out in malls.<\/p>\n
Tiffany\u2019s biggest hit is inarguably her cover of the 1967 Tommy James & the Shondells song<\/a>, \u201cI Think We\u2019re Alone Now.\u201d But she didn\u2019t necessarily want it to be at the time. As she told The Guardian<\/a> in 2025, \u201cIt was dancey, and I worried that it wasn\u2019t going to show that I could actually sing. I was 14, and I had this vision of me being Stevie Nicks or Janis Joplin.\u201d<\/p>\n Tiffany said that one fateful afternoon, she invited her girlfriends over to do homework. While they were at her house, she put on her cover of \u201cI Think We\u2019re Alone Now,\u201d and \u201cthey immediately started dancing around,\u201d Tiffany recalled. \u201cI realized there is something about this song that makes people feel good. Still today, it never lets me down.\u201d<\/p>\n A Reluctant But Resonant Chart-Topper<\/p>\n Tiffany might not have wanted to record the massive 1980s pop hit that propelled her to teen stardom, but the song\u2019s chart performance certainly quelled any lingering doubts she might have had about the song. \u201cI Think We\u2019re Alone Now\u201d spent two weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and three weeks at the top of the U.K. Singles chart. The song even managed to make the top twenty highest-selling singles of the year 1987.<\/p>\n