’80s Pop Star Tiffany Reflects on Fame, Mall Tours, and Redefining Success in Her 50s

You can’t think of the 1980s without thinking of the mall, and you can’t think about the mall or music without thinking of Tiffany, one of the, if not the, decade’s most-popular teen performers, who honed her skills in shopping centers all over America, becoming synonymous with big hair, jean jackets, and screaming teen girls.

At just 16, she earned two US number-one hit singles with “I Think We’re Alone Now” and “Could’ve Been,” and set a record as the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with her debut album.

Ironically, it was there that Tiffany got the latest “Hollywood” opportunity in her colorful career. Her mutual friends, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Steve Dorff, and Michael Jay and Steve McClintock, asked her to record a theme song they’d written, and voilà, “here we are.”

That song is for the new movie, Ladies of the ’80s: A Divas Christmas, coming to Lifetime on December 2.

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