Kim Carnes ruled the charts of 1981 with her No. 1 album Mistaken Identity and the biggest song of the year with Bette Davis Eyes. In 1982, she faced the daunting task of trying to find equal ...

Taylor Swift even covered the song during her Speak Now world tour in 2011 — thirty years after Carnes' version was released. Interestingly enough, DeShannon recorded a much different version of ...

Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, ...

Kim Carnes will forever be linked to her massive 1981 hit, “Bette Davis Eyes,” a song that spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, but she readily acknowledges that since that ...

JoJo Siwa, who recently started a romance with Chris Hughes, received relentless backlash after releasing a cover of Kim Carnes' Bette Davis Eyes. The original song, sung by Kim, was released in ...

In addition to the fond memories of recording the song and video, which quickly became a global phenomenon upon its release March 7, 1985, Carnes still has a cherished souvenir of the event.

Kim Carnes—the original singer of "Bette Davis Eyes"—shared her honest thoughts on JoJo Siwa's cover of the 1981 hit, saying that it "felt a bit too close" to her rendition.