Category Archives: music video

Music Video of the Day: When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going by Billy Ocean (1985, dir by ????)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Sometimes, on twitter (or whatever it’s called nowadays), people will just become fixated with something.  Yesterday, it was this music video for a song called When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Gets Going.  I lost track of how many times I saw this video shared on Saturday.

So, I figured, why not share it here as well?

This music video was made to promote the 1985 film, The Jewel of the Nile.  Along with Billy Ocean, the stars of the film — Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, and Michael Douglas — also appear in this video.  Was Danny really playing the saxophone?  No, he was not.  Apparently, in the UK, this video was briefly banned because Danny was not a member of the Musicians’ Union and his miming of the sax solo went against the rules.

The UK banning something because an American broke a rule?  Wow, that’s so unlike them!

Enjoy!

Music Video of the Day: All or Nothing by O-Town (2001, dir. by Marcus Raboy)

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

Does everyone remember O-Town?  They were the band that was created on a reality show and we all thought that their name meant Orgasm Town but it was actually because they were from Orlando?  O-Town was the boy band that existed to make other boy bands look tough and dangerous by comparison.

All or Nothing is a typical boy band song and this is a typical boy band video.  The song is about the lead singer of O-Town realizing that his girlfriend is still hung up on Justin Timberlake.  He sings that he can tell by the distant look in her eyes and he just doesn’t think they can be together as long as she’s dreaming about Justin.  He wants it all or he’ll settle for nothing.  There’s no such thing as a compromise when you’re from the O.