I love music videos - watching them, writing about them and making my own on extremely limited budgets. Great videos are part of the reason I like pop music.
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The BBC Glastonbury coverage currently has a choice of Tony Christie, Status Quo or Tom Jones (anyone wanting to watch an act that began recording in the 21st century is probably there already).
As I type, Jones has just finished his set with ‘Kiss’ and the red button is now showing his former duet partner Cerys from Catatonia waving a shoe at a stuffed Flat Eric, so let’s have some graph paper action from twenty years ago. Unfortunately today Jones is still attempting the dance moves last seen at 1.56 and ends up looking like he’s got severe back pain.
Terence Trent D’Arby - Sign Your Name Across My Heart
Because it is the Eighties, the Decade Of Extravaganze, Terence ignores such trifling matters as carbon footprints and keeps his overhead projector on ALL NIGHT! As punishment for such wanton energy wastage Terence must seek out the sexy French lady who can inform him about cavity wall insulation and suchlike. Cue Tez jumping on his motorbike (which he keeps in his bedroom! I’m sure his mum will have something to say about that - and those skull earrings too, which seem to be singing along at 2.23) and heading to a bar to have a FIGHT. Luckily the gargantuan size of his beret (fnar) prevents any beef, and he is able to serenade the sexy French lady with some super-masculine motorbike revving. Though I’m not totally convinced that her small child will be distracted by a moth-eaten teddy for more than a couple of minutes - Terence might have to settle for a low-wattage lightbulb instead.
(This song is currently being used on a Coco Pops advert in the UK with swimming hippos. The mind boggles.)
While listening to the Pussycat Dolls album this morning (as you do) I was struck by the similarities between ‘Who’s Gonna Love You’ (Scherzinger/Jones/DioGuardi) and the Thomas Dolby electro masterpiece that is ‘Magic’s Wand’. I believe the industry term is ‘contains elements of’?
The PCD track is a bit slower though, and there’s no mention of anyone having a Rap Attack. But it’s an excellent excuse to post this video of dudes wiggling about on escalators/staircases (note the gratuitous bum shot at 2.08) and Grandmaster Dee making cowboy outfits spontaneously appear via his ‘lengthy wand’.
