- Fine Young Cannibals: Growing up, I hated the “She Drives Me Crazy” video because of the way he moved his mouth (especially his upper lip) on his jagged teeth. It gave me the creeps. Just watched a minute of it again, and…well, I still don’t like it.
- Robert Palmer: What’s up with women dancing and not being happy about it? Simply Irresistible has gobs of women in it dancing around and doing sexy things and they’re all straight faced and looking mean. I think seeing this video when I was a developing girl contributed to my thinking that dancing was dumb and bad. Good thing I’ve since discovered Zumba!
- Faith No More: This video made my mom hate that I wanted to watch MTV when I was 13. Even though I dug the song at the time, I felt sorry for the fish at the end. And I really liked it when Pauly Shore did his commentary over this video. Something about *weasles*!
Note: To be fair to Faith No More, anything Madonna did was a huge reason my mom didn’t like MTV. And to be fair to my mom, I didn’t really like MTV all that much anyway. I just wanted to be able to watch it if my friends were watching it so they didn’t think I was lame.
- David Lee Roth: Too many (very scary) wardrobe changes. ‘Nuff said.
- Milli Vanilli: I resent the music video for “Girl You Know It’s True” because I liked that song when it was out. A lot. And the video was the thing that made everyone criticize them for lip-syncing. Then I felt like I shouldn’t like them anymore. But I still did. I just didn’t tell anyone.
Any music videos you need to whine about for at least 2.2 seconds?
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Oh my goodness, I’m so glad I’m not the only one who can’t stand watching that Fine Young Cannibals video. It totally gives me the willies the way his mouth moved. Eep!
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Aghhh! Too funny, Leah. Your reply made me laugh. And even though that guy’s video gives me the willies, it makes me laugh too. Thanks for sharing in the weirdness with me.