80s Music Video Flashbacks with Rick – I wanna dance with Somebody
http://www.youtube.com/v/sPm-ohAziuw&hl=en&fs=1
Whitney. Nothing epitomises the late 80s than Whitney Houston.
If only perms that good were still around, Id have a bigger smile on my face than she does when on a coke fuelled binge with Bobby Brown. Before he beats her.
AND THERES THE JOKES, KIDS! Domestic violence and drug fuelled rage!
Anywhoo, the clips brilliance lies in the fact that its supremely bland black and white shadows its “SUPER-FUN-HAPPY-TIME” colour scheme. Dont get me wrong, I love the awesome lavender coloured dress with hot pink lipstick combo, I just prefer it on my hookers than I do my 80s pop stars. But you know what? I often cant tell the difference and I like it that way.
Not only is this tune so super catchy that it makes you want to claw your brain out of your skull with a rusty spoon, it contains random images of people “dancing” and just being plain ole wacky! You cant get much better than that, can you? .. guys? … bueller?
Honestly, Jeans with a white singlet tee was your icon of the era. The true winner of the 80s was Levi Strauss & Co. Its a timeless combination that I often wish i could accomplish. Its really a jealousy thing.
For all the singing about wanting to “feel the heat” with somebody, the only guy she even remotely comes into any kind of bodily contact with is a guy in a top hat, looking like he was rejected from the video clip to “Puttin on the Ritz” by Taco (which is coming up in a few weeks, mind you). Then again, right near the end of the clip, she gives him the beatdown! I think it was a reversal fortune of things to come!
“Dont ya wanna dance, say you wanna dance, dont ya wanna dance” kind of strikes me as the rally cry of the psychotic, clingy person that “JUST WANTS TO LOVE YOU!! GAHAAAHAAAAA!~” before boiling your bunny and cutting off the head of your girlfriend. Dancing, Its a gateway drug for the neurotic.
-Rick
