Okay, confession time: I am exhausted. Usually, when we have a big day like Oscar Sunday, I write out all my posts like a week ahead of time. I did not do that this time. So, I spent a good deal of Sunday just trying to keep up with the site and the day.
So, instead of doing my usual rambling about today’s music video of the day, I’m just going to thank all of our readers and subscribers and visitors. Your likes and your comments are really what makes this site worthwhile. We’ve been doing this for 10 years now and I still love writing for the TSL as much as I did my first day. Thank you for reading. Thank you for your indulgence. Thank you for being there.
It takes a certain amount of courage to sing while a rat’s crawling on your shoulder and, in honor of that courage, here is today’s music video of the day!
The thing I like about this video is that it features a disco ball.
Seriously, every room should come with a disco ball. During my first semester away at college, I had a disco ball hanging in my dorm room. (Unfortunately, my roommate took it with her when the semester ended.) And I’ve currently got a disco ball in my bedroom that I occasionally hang from the ceiling. It just really livens up the house and, even more importantly, it keeps the spirit of disco alive. Plus, you don’t have to worry about a disco ball exploding or transforming into a carnivorous goo, like you do with a lava lamp.
Anyway, this is a simple video but I like it. It’s got a nice and calming atmosphere to it.
Now seems like as good a time as any to take a trip back to the 60s or the 70s and here to help us do just that is today’s music video of the day!
Myself, I always love these retro videos. My personal theory is that it’s because I was born a few decades too late. I love to dance and I love to have a good time and I used to love a few other things that were popular back in the 70s but I won’t go too much into too much of that here. It’s hard for me not to feel that I should have been born earlier so that I could have hit the discos or the go-go clubs or whatever else there was to hit back then. Hell, I probably would have even tried the whole punk thing. Sure, why not?
For the record, if I had been born like in the 50s or the 40s (or even the 30s, who knows), I probably would have voted for Kennedy in 1960 because he was Catholic and then I would have had to vote for LBJ in ’64 because he was a Texan. And I probably would have voted for Nixon twice and Ford once because why not? After the election of 1976, I probably would have said, “Forget voting, let’s dance!”
(Of course, if I had been born back then, I’d be like really old and bitter today so I guess I should just be happy that I was born when I was.)
Anyway, I like this video and I like this song. Good work all around!
So this video starts out with a good beat and two people getting close and really, that’s what we need in the world. There’s so many angry and bitter and angst-filled people out there that sometimes, we need a video to remind us that love is the best thing that there is and that there’s nothing wrong with getting close to one another and that….
OH MY GOD, DID SHE JUST RIP OUT HIS HEART!?
Well, maybe. She definitely removed something from his chest but he doesn’t look like he minds. I kind of think of this video gives us an opportunity to see what Grease would have been like it had been directed by David Cronenberg.
When these two fashionably-clad gangs had a disagreement in the 1980s, they didn’t settle things with violence. Well, okay — they probably did sometimes. In fact, things get a little bit heated in this video and I’m sure some people would argue that the only reason things didn’t get bad (I mean like, West Side Story bad) is because everyone knew that they were being filmed for prosperity.
Anyway, instead of having a rumble (which may sound silly but is still a lot of fun to say), they had a skate-off! And then they all jumped up into the air! Yay! Everyone’s a winner even though we know that can’t be true because, just by definition, no one can win unless someone else loses. That’s just the way it goes.
Anyway, this is a fun little video and all the gang members look crazy hot with their skateboards and their headbands and their whole neon attitude. This video was shot in Venice Beach and the director was Peter Falloon, who apparently directed a lot of skating videos back in the 80s. My favorite thing about this video is that it really does look like something that was taken off of a crappy VHS tape. You can even tell when the tape’s owner rewound certain scenes and then watched them over and over again.
Anyway, what more can I say about this one? It’s fun and really, for me, that’ the most important thing about any music video. Did I enjoy watching it? Did I actually force myself to concentrate on only doing one thing for three minute so that I could enjoy the video? In this case, the answer is yes.
Through the Shattered Lens 