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"High School Confidential," the breakthrough single for Rough Trade, borrows its title from a 1950s teen movie and a Jerry Lee Lewis song, but Carole Pope makes the story all her own, while also making it a universal story of desire and passion.
Despite its sexually explicit content, which was also deliciously ambiguous about whether it was heterosexual or lesbian, the single reached #12 on the RPM top singles chart and #1 on the RPM CanCon chart, and won producer Gene Martynec the 1981 Juno award for Producer of the Year (along with Bruce Cockburn's "Tokyo").
"High School Confidential" has been included in many greatest Canadian song lists over the years: 22nd in Chart magazine's 1996 poll and 18th in the 2000 poll, 38th in CBC's 50 Tacks: The Canadian Edition, 26th in Bob Mersereau's The Top 100 Canadian Singles, and 46th in Huffington Post's 100 Best Canadian Songs Ever.
| Hometown: | Toronto |
| Release Date: | 1980 |
| Composer: | Carole Pope, Kevan Staples |
| Album: | Avoid Freud |
| Style: | new wave |
| Chart: | #12 Canada RPM Top Singles; #1 RPM CanCon |
| Mar*Star 125: | did not rank |
| Mar*Star 150: | 28 |
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