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Yes, nostalgia fans, Monday WTF is upon us again. Please feel free to leave suggestions for next week’s edition in the comments.
Submitted by Saywhat?, owner of gold sequined gloves.
Fearless lipsynching? Check! Spazzy dancing (including The Worm and The Mime)? Check! Incredibly dramatic facial expressions? Check! Great ’80s fashion? Check! High WTF factor? Check! I think we should pass this video around the internet and, if all is right in this world, endless parody videos (à la “Single Ladies”) will begin popping up.
You know the drill by now. But if not: Welcome to ’80s Music Video Thursday, where we post gems from the Golden Age of music video clips. As always, suggestions for next week are welcome in the comments.
“I Heard a Rumor” by Bananarama, submitted by QuoteMan.
Some of the fashion in this video makes Lady GaGa look like a jeans-and-t-shirt gal. Quality ’80s “what were they thinking” to be found here. Personally, I can’t listen to Bananarama without thinking of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders’ parody of the band called “Lananeeneenoonoo.”
“Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) by Wham, submitted by uffda.
I imagine that they were going for “cool.” But it mostly just looks like Grease.
“The Big Picture” by Y Kant Tori Read, submitted by Leven:
Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly (well, with as much pride as I can muster for even knowing about this video) present Y Kant Tori Read’s lone single and music video: The Big Picture.
Wow. Ms. Amos certainly has…evolved…artistically since the ’80s, has she not?
Welcome back to ’80s Music Video Thursdays! Suggestions for next week’s edition are welcome in the comments.
“Sunglasses at Night” by Corey Hart, submitted by CosmykDolfyn.
I don’t know a video with more synchronization problems than this. I must randomly move my mouth. And I hate wearing my sunglasses, even though that’s the song’s title.
“Nightboat” by Duran Duran, submitted by MaryIn Boise.
This is pre-Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf, and the album it comes from is their best in my opinion.
“Cloudbusting” by Kate Bush.
Kate Bush playing Donald Sutherland’s son in a video conceived by Ms. Bush and Terry Gilliam. ‘Nuff said.
Welcome, once again, to ’80s Music Video Thursday here at Once Upon a Win. This week we’re (loosely) sticking to a (vague) theme. By theme, I mean a song and/or band that has something relating to sweetness and/or candy in its name. If you’d like to see a particular video posted on this site next week, feel free to leave a link in the comments!
“Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by Eurythmics, submitted by CosmykDolfyn
I couldn’t believe the singer was a woman. Sorry.
“Birthday” by The Sugarcubes
Björk is like candy for my ears, and her videos, even her pre-solo-career videos with The Sugarcubes, are eye-catching eye candy.
“I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow
The giant candy cane sticking out of the sand? Yeah, that’s a metaphor…for candy.
“Candy Girl” by New Edition
I walk down all stairs the way these young men walk down the stairs at the start of the video. They were doing it to be cool. I do it because of a bad hip.
Submitted by Brandon M, who doesn’t know what fruit is.
Alright, I’ll admit that this video appears to be purposefully WTF, but I don’t think that makes it any less WTF. Though at the time the band was successful in their homeland, Canada, they had yet to break the American market. I’m trying to imagine the impression I may have formed if I had seen this FOX Kids PSA before knowing anything else about the band. Well, whether successful or not, the message of racial tolerance is never something to scoff at. Those dance moves, however, are.
