Psychedelic Furs frontman says ‘Pretty In Pink’ filmmaker John Hughes misinterpreted song
The Psychedelic Furs‘ frontman has revealed that John Hughes “got the wrong end of the stick” about his band’s 1981 single, which inspired a 1986 rom-com of the same name.Richard Butler said that the US filmmaker took the meaning literally, and centred his Molly Ringwald-starring “brat pack” film Pretty In Pink on a beautiful girl in a pink dress. But Butler was using a metaphor for describing a naked, wayward girl.“God rest his soul,” Butler told Sky News, ‘[Hughes] kind of got the wrong end of the stick with that song.“He made it to be literally about a girl that was wearing a pink dress and it wasn’t about that at all.