Song information

In 1985 Amanda Lear signed with now defunct Merak Music and would release two singles through the label: "No Credit Card" and "Women

Women (Amanda Lear song)

- Song information :The song was released as a single-only track in 1985, with an instrumental version "Women Wow Wow" as the B-side. It was written by Amanda Lear and Silvano Fossati. It's an uptempo pop song, lyrically revealing feminist theme and referring to women's rights."Women" was the theme...

". "No Credit Card" was an energetic dance track with synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 arrangement, resembling Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood were a British dance-pop band popular in the mid-1980s. The group was fronted by Holly Johnson , with Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole , and Brian Nash .The group's debut single "Relax" was banned by the BBC in 1984 while at number six in the charts and...

's musical style. It was written and arranged by Sangy, while production was credited to Roberto Gasparini. The recording session took place in Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...

, Italy. "Jungle Beat" was released as the B-side, de facto an instrumental version of the title song. Both of them were non-album tracks. "No Credit Card" was heavily promoted on television, however, it failed to chart anywhere.

Music video

In the song's music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 Amanda is dressed as an aborigine, with her tribal outfit resembling Tina Turner

Tina Turner

Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

's look from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie, written by Miller, Doug Mitchell and Terry Hayes, and starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. It is the third installment in the action movie Mad Max franchise...

. The clip pictures the singer dancing in a steppe

Steppe

In physical geography, steppe is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes...

, walking through the jungle as well as city streets.

Track listing

• 7" Single (1985)

A. "No Credit Card" - 3:46

B. "Jungle Beat" - 4:00

• 12" Single (1985)

A. "No Credit Card" - 6:58

B. "Jungle Beat" - 4:16