Bonnie Tyler has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by nly » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

myself248 wrote: post #23

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #5

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

Featured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!

I think of that movie every time I hear the song! That was one badass robot sequence.

"Suuuuure. Kidnap the humans, DESTROY THE MACHINE."

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by WillAdams » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC

vardump wrote: post #24

Little by little, memories of the 1980s fade.

Sadly, Jim Steinman passed away half a decade ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman

I still want to see the dream realized on Broadway of a Native-American inspired musical.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by defrost » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC

auslegung wrote: post #2

Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

The back story of the writing of Total Eclipse ain't bad either: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by deadbabe » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:40 PM UTC

Too soon, she could have had a lot more life left to live these days, but a bad surgery ended it. Sucks. Try to avoid needing surgery as much as you can.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by codelikeawolf » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

Ugh, what a bummer. I'll be listening to Holding Out for a Hero on repeat today. Nothing gold can stay.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by petcat » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf, and now Bonnie Tyler. It truly all has come to an end. I think Celine Dion is the last one still carrying on Steinman's legacy.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by krapp » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:44 PM UTC

PurpleRamen wrote: post #28

cramer4next wrote: post #11

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Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.

That's not how it works. If upvotes alone mattered, HN would quickly degenerate into Reddit. The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this interesting.

Death notices of famous artists are the definition of off-topic: "most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." If normies care about it, good hackers by definition probably don't.

I flag this and every such thread I come across. If Hacker News is going to be consistent in its espoused principles, this is non-technical content and thus not welcome. If that standard applies to far more substantive stories regardless of the quality of conversation they produce, it must apply here as well.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by amiga386 » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:44 PM UTC

limbicsystem wrote: post #26

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #5

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

Is it wrong that I prefer the Shrek version?

It's not. I prefer the bardcore version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-x_1lIXh4

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by Rayhem » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC

limbicsystem wrote: post #26

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #5

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

Is it wrong that I prefer the Shrek version?

Fun fact: the original was only produced in English but the Shrek remix (which is a *BOP*) got translated into every language the movie did.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by biofox » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 12:47 PM UTC

myself248 wrote: post #23

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #5

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

Featured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!

"Number 5 is alive!"