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May 27, 2006
The Bad 80s Video War: Game. Set. Match.
Corey fought back hard from Toni Basil. He rolled out the acid wash from Shiela E. That's a pretty stiff challenge. And it required my tapping the one video I know that features every 80s video cliche.
You want a storyline totally unrelated to the song? We got that. You want authority figures who just don't understand? Check. Lots of ambient sound (like sirens, shouts, and the splash of water)? We got your hookup. Bad clothes? Cheesily choreographed extended dance scenes that require the mid-song instrumental to be extended to allow for the video scene to play out? All here.
Plus, this video features perhaps one of the most memorable of all archetypal characters from 80s MTV: the only gold-toothed pimp in the history of pimping who was ever intimidated out of business by a bunch of dancing girls shimmying their shoulders. (Actually, in hindsight, watching Pat Benatar try to dance is pretty scary.) Oh, but that's right, he wasn't a pimp, because they were only dancing with the random guys with that empty, detached, coked out look in their eyes.
Other highlights from this video (besides the comical gold-toothed sneer and that immortal dance confrontation during the solo) include Trey Wilson, the manager from Bull Durham, as the father throwing our heroine out of the house for some undisclosed sin. (This despite the fact that Wilson was only five years older than Benatar.)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen (and Corey)... my counterstrike in the Bad 80s Video War is the immortal "Love Is A Battlefield" by Pat Benatar. And Corey, you're really gonna have to dig deep to come back from this one... because I think I've got you game, set and match.
And remember, ladies... any time you find yourself in a trouble situation where you could be in danger... just shimmy.
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Comments
a strategic hit.
Mudge applies the use of overwhelming force to gain stiff tactical advantage.
Posted by: Cuzin Jose at May 27, 2006 09:25 PM
Was there another post that you unposted or is bloglines playing headgames with me or is it just the fact that I haven't slept?
Posted by: Jill at May 29, 2006 05:30 AM
He threw her out b/c she was a lollygagger
Posted by: Eden at May 29, 2006 11:47 AM
Yeah...Give me 30 minutes and I'll bury this song.
Posted by: Corey at May 30, 2006 02:03 PM
Yeah, it's over now Mudge. Pat Benatar has NOTHING on Sonny Crockett.
Posted by: Corey at May 30, 2006 02:26 PM
Damn you to hell, Cornelius! That was my next one!!!!
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 30, 2006 03:08 PM
