What is "read my lips"

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Read My Lips is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor, released on 27 August 2001 by Polydor Records. After the disbandment of the Britpop group Theaudience, in which Ellis-Bextor served as its vocalist, she was signed to Polydor. Prior to the LP's completion, the singer collaborated with several musicians, including band Blur's bassist Alex James, Moby and New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander. The record was described as a "collection" of 1980s electronica and 1970s disco music.

Critical response to Read My Lips was polarized, with music critics denouncing its content that was, according to many of whom, of lesser quality than " Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)"—the singer's collaboration with Italian DJ Spiller. The album reached number two on the UK Albums Chart, and has since been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. It spawned four singles: " Take Me Home", " Murder on the Dancefloor", double A-side single " Get Over You"/"Move This Mountain" and " Music Gets the Best of Me".

Read My Lips is a 2001 French film by Jacques Audiard, co-written with Tonino Benacquista. The film stars Vincent Cassel as Paul, an ex-con on parole, and Emmanuelle Devos as Carla, a nearly deaf secretary whose colleagues treat her disrespectfully, causing her to suffer. Despite their different backgrounds and initial fear of each other, they end up intimately related and helping each other.

Read My Lips may refer to:

• Read My Lips (film) or Sur mes lèvres, a film by Jacques Audiard
• Read My Lips (Sophie Ellis-Bextor album), 2001
• Read My Lips (Tim Curry album), 1978
• Read My Lips (Melba Moore album), 1985
• Read My Lips (Jimmy Somerville album), 1989
• "Read My Lips" (Melissa song), 1991
• "Read My Lips" (Marie Osmond song), 1986
• " Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)", a 1989 song by Jimmy Somerville
• "Read My Lips", a song by Loverboy from Wildside
• "Read My Lips", a song by Duran Duran from Liberty
• "Read My Lips", a song by Ciara

"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 album's first single in Australia as a CD single on 27 May 1991. Starring 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 two ARIA Awards. The song debuted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on 3 June 1991 at number forty-one. 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, and twenty-one weeks in the top 100. The single was certified platinum by ARIA, becoming the sixth highest selling single for 1991. "Read My Lips" won the ARIA Award for "Highest Selling Single" for 1992.

A music video was produced for the song. It features male dancers, one of who is (a then-unknown) Simon Baker, as well as (a then-unknown) Tom Williams.

Read My Lips is the debut solo album by Tim Curry, released in 1978. It was produced by Bob Ezrin with Michael Kamen as the associate producer.

"Read My Lips" is a song written by Marc Blatte and Larry Gottlieb, and recorded by American country music artist Marie Osmond. It was released in March 1986 as the second single from the album There's No Stopping Your Heart. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Chart (1986)

Peak
position

U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks

4

Canadian RPM Country Tracks

5

Read My Lips is the fourteenth album by singer Melba Moore, released in 1985. This album featured the hit title track and "When You Love Me Like This". The title track later won Moore a fourth Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, making her just the third black artist after Donna Summer and Michael Jackson to be nominated in the rock category.

Read My Lips is the 1989 debut solo album by Jimmy Somerville, former lead singer of the successful synthpop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards. The album was released through London Records and peaked at number 29 on the UK Album Chart. It has been certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.

In July 2012, Read My Lips was released as a two disc CD set including the original album plus bonus tracks of B-sides and remixes.

"Read My Lips" is a song written and performed by Scottish singer-songwriter Jimmy Somerville, from his 1989 album Read My Lips, formerly of the bands Bronski Beat and The Communards.

Released in 1990 as Somerville's third solo single from the album Read My Lips, the song didn't chart as well as the previous single, " You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", a cover of the Sylvester original, which hit number 5 earlier the same year. However, it did chart inside the Top 40, peaking at number 26 on the UK Singles Chart.

"Read My Lips" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Ciara for her fifth studio album, Ciara (2013). It was written by Ciara, Livvi Franc, and co-written and produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. The song was set to be released as the third single from the album, but it was unfortunately cancelled. To promote the album, Ciara recorded "video shorts" for some songs, including one for "Read My Lips", which lasts for 1:30.

Musically, "Read My Lips" is an electropop song, with sunshine-y chords and bouncy, half-organic drums. Lyrically, the song features a lot of innuendos about cunnilingus, where Ciara uses a sweet vocal to talk about it. "Read My Lips" received favorable reviews from music critics who praised the song for being both ridiculously lubricious and kind of sweet. The song has charted at number 5 on the South Korea charts, selling over 890,000 copies.