Now if someone could just do this for the videos for "Billie Jean", "Jeopardy" and "White Wedding" and the entire movie Looker, all my adolescent confusion could be put to rest.
I can't tell you how wrong this is! Total Eclipse of the Heart is the third greatest pop single of the 80's (on the OFFICIAL SNICKS TOP 100 OF THE 80'S), and I will not tolerate any mockery of it! (no matter how funny the clip may be .. which it is, but that's irrelevant).
Brian, there are a number of 'literal version' music videos out there. i saw some on youtube. I think you just type in "literal music video" or something like that in the search box. Maybe you'll find the versions you want. :-P
I adored this song when I was a kid. And I watched a lot of MTV. I don't think at the time it registered just how homoerotic the video was, but wow! It may not of turned me gay, but it probably reinforced it. Couldn't be more different than a Van Halen video.
As for the mocking, I feel the same as snicks - funny as heck, but I'm reminded of South Park and the kids feelings about George Lucas and Indiana Jones...
Olivia Newton-John's Physical - muscle boys in speedos working out, posing and flexing - and then pairing off, exiting hand-in-hand with each other, leaving Olivia to play a set with one of the "before" guys. That one was WAY gayer than anything else around nearly 30 years ago.
I didn't realize that this is fast becomming an art form. Search Literal Video.
And you will find Billy Idol’s White Wedding: Literal Video Version at Funny or Die. I don't know if this is the person who introduced the idea, but the best are being done by DustFilms. They seem to use a Karaoke soundtrack and vocalists who can actually sing.
Love this to pieces. So funny! Especially since I have *never* understood this music video. For the longest time, I pretended that the Kiki and Herb video was actually the real one, and there had just been a terrible mix-up in directors.
Wow. I'd forgotten how out of control the hair was in the 80's! No wonder there is a hole in the ozone layer with all the spray they used in that decade.
Bonnie Tyler has never ignored or denigrated or insulted her gay audience. Whenever she's been asked, she's celebrated and loved her gays. And this is in the 8o's - long before a reasonable or sexy position to hold. I'm seriously horrified by this.
Back in the 1980s in Britain, Bonnie Tyler was saying good things about gay men. She's not a figure of fun - she's a woman who stood up on children's TV and other places and faced down discriminatiion. For fuck' sake, we should be holding this woman in a beautiful place. But instead we're making fun of her? Bonnie Tyler is not someone easy to put into a category, but she's nobody's fool and there's no way she's ever been anti-gay.
I re-read all the comments, and nobody mocked the song or Bonnie Tyler. Several of us mocked the overdone 80s video - which I completely think is fair game, I mean look at it. Plus the artcile is commenting on a parody, which is in and of itself ridiculous.
snicks praised the song, I said I adored it. Nobody said she was anti-gay. I think I said it was a homoerotic video, which is a compliment in my book, especially in the 80s.
She's a diva I didn't see enough of, and sorely miss. I haven't heard anything from her in 20 years.
Bonnie Tyler appeared on an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, the British pop culture celebrity quiz show hosted by the out Simon Amstell (or it was, he won't be returning next season.) The episode used to be on Youtube, but alas, I can't find it anymore. It was rather hilarious, she seemed a bit...out of it, but a good sport.
I'm sorry. I over-reacted and I sincerely apologise. And I deserve the ridicule.
I have a blind spot about Bonnie Tyler. Back in the 1980s when every other celebrity was offering tea and sympathy to all the poor gays who were dying of AIDS, Bonnie Tyler said that AIDS is just a disease and that there's nothing wrong with being gay. It doesn't sound like much now, but back then it was astoundingly radical. Also, back in the day she turned up on a kids' TV show as a celebrity agony aunt. When a teenager rang in to obliquely ask about his feelings for other boys, she was very common-sensical and matter-of-fact in saying that homosexuality was a fact of life, and while being gay could be difficult it was nothing to be ashamed of. Again, this doesn't sound unusual now, but back then it was earth-shattering to hear someone say it out loud on national TV as though it was simple wisdom. And she wasn't being touchy-feely fake nice, she was just being properly motherly to some poor kid who was confused. (No, I wasn't that kid.)
Looking at the video, I'm pretty sure Tyler would laugh her socks off at it and fully understand that it's not taking the piss out of her, rather of a whole style of video that existed then.
I'm just ridiculously over-protective of the woman. Anyway, apologies again.
Bonnie Tyler hasn't had a hit in decades, but she still makes occasional appearances in the UK. As has already been said, she was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (which regularly reaches down and plucks pop stars from the past for a nostalgic gawp at how much they've aged) and I've seen her at a couple of music festivals and concerts over the last ten years.
We've tried to get her to perform a couple of times at Cardiff Mardi Gras, but the timing never came off.
Sadly she often does appear a little out of it. I saw her perform in St David's Hall in Cardiff about five years ago with her brother, and it was a bit of a car crash. Her voice was so rough it was ridiculous.
Still, she is one of my favourites. I've loads of her songs on my iPod. 'Getting So Excited', 'Have you never seen the rain..." all great stuff.
She had a No 1 in France last year I think, and she seems to do stuff still on the Continent. But yes, she doesn't do much in the UK these days - which is a shame.
I'd like to echo the sentiment that we're not putting down Bonnie or her biggest hit. We're just laughing at the parody-one that I don't find in the least bit mean-spirited.
Since I'm from the U.S.A., I didn't know about Bonnie Tyler's tv appearances. I'm delighted to learn that she's gay-friendly. I've been a fan since "It's A Heartace". Has anyone ever heard her cover of Stevie Wonder's "Living In the City"? Not bad for a white girl from Wales.
Jim Sheridan collaborated on a parody version (of a sort) of "Eclipse" when he wrote the music to "Tanz der Vampire." The fangs and the posturing say it all--in German! Actually, I rather enjoyed this when I saw it on stage a few years back in Berlin. It subsequently flopped in the States. Here's the only live version I could find on youtube:
Tho' I may be scarred, that is how I seem to remember Catholic school! The video has all come crashing into a dazed half-memory. The lyrics are somehow better this time around!
NO!NO!NO!
and if you were the editor of the site, you could stop this
more out there...
Brian, there are a number of 'literal version' music videos out there. i saw some on youtube. I think you just type in "literal music video" or something like that in the search box. Maybe you'll find the versions you want. :-P
It turned me gay!
I adored this song when I was a kid. And I watched a lot of MTV. I don't think at the time it registered just how homoerotic the video was, but wow! It may not of turned me gay, but it probably reinforced it. Couldn't be more different than a Van Halen video.
As for the mocking, I feel the same as snicks - funny as heck, but I'm reminded of South Park and the kids feelings about George Lucas and Indiana Jones...
The only video gayer...
...was Elton John's "I'm Still Standing".
I wonder if we could get Bruno Tonioli back into that outfit? He looks like he's still got the body for it...
Gayest 80s video?
White wedding
Literal Vids
Wagville brought it up in the cummunity section first. (The Funniest Thing I've Ever Seen In My Life.)
I didn't realize that this is fast becomming an art form. Search Literal Video.
And you will find Billy Idol’s White Wedding: Literal Video Version at Funny or Die. I don't know if this is the person who introduced the idea, but the best are being done by DustFilms. They seem to use a Karaoke soundtrack and vocalists who can actually sing.
-Tears For Fears’ Head Over Heels: Literal Video Version at laughingsquid.com
-Take On Me, With New Lyrics Explaining What’s Going On at laughingsquid.com
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge at funnyordie.com
I think my favorite line
I think my favorite line from this is "This used to be like Hogwarts now it's Lord of the Flies." Awesome.
I'm also fond of the literal "Take On Me" video.
scanning
I never knew how well "turn around" and the longer line could be used for scanning all sorts of phrases...including Arthur Fonzarelli.
That angel guy just felt me up.
mullet with headlights?
Love this to pieces. So
Love this to pieces. So funny! Especially since I have *never* understood this music video. For the longest time, I pretended that the Kiki and Herb video was actually the real one, and there had just been a terrible mix-up in directors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVpIZ-Chta8
Subtitles
It's a mock subtitling rather than one of these, but this exlanation of Joe Cocker's legendary Woostaock performance has always made me laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjNLjBbVd4
Now I have to search for the
OMFG!!
Brian!! Where did you find this! LOL It is absolutely one of the funniest things I have seen in ages!!! LOL
I love this!
Used to scare me
Hair
Favorite Lines
snicks, I loved this record when it first came out-and the beserk video.
So natually I loved the parody. Favorite lines:
"Emo kid is throwing slo-mo dove in my face/I guess it means that he flipped my the bird."
"Arthur Fonzerelli's got an army of clones"
"Turn around, Ninjas!"
"I tear my feathered hair whenever I see floating cloth!"
"How about a towel?"
"Aaah! Flying altar boy!"
"I've joined the Glee club of the Damned!"
"It started out as Hogwarts, now it's Lord of the Flies!"
"The gayest man on earth would call this over the top!"
"When did spazzing out qualify as a dance?"
"What the effing crap? That angel guy just felt me up?"
"Mullet with headlights"
"Over surprised guy"
(I'm sure I missed a few.)
HA-LARIOUS!
So good! Its like a Brothers & Sisters snark-fest, but all about a cheesy 80's music video! A good four mintues of Laugh Out Loud humor!
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The YT link
to the guy that made it http://www.youtube.com/user/dascottjr
he has quite a few on there.
Basically, screw the lot of you
Bonnie Tyler has never ignored or denigrated or insulted her gay audience. Whenever she's been asked, she's celebrated and loved her gays. And this is in the 8o's - long before a reasonable or sexy position to hold. I'm seriously horrified by this.
Back in the 1980s in Britain, Bonnie Tyler was saying good things about gay men. She's not a figure of fun - she's a woman who stood up on children's TV and other places and faced down discriminatiion. For fuck' sake, we should be holding this woman in a beautiful place. But instead we're making fun of her? Bonnie Tyler is not someone easy to put into a category, but she's nobody's fool and there's no way she's ever been anti-gay.
I do hope you are not serious
Really I do, All is fair game to make fun of and not a single thing has been said to denigrate her at all.
Its simply a piss take of a old loved song and video...no one is that special you cant have a laugh at.
I'm with beero here
I re-read all the comments, and nobody mocked the song or Bonnie Tyler. Several of us mocked the overdone 80s video - which I completely think is fair game, I mean look at it. Plus the artcile is commenting on a parody, which is in and of itself ridiculous.
snicks praised the song, I said I adored it. Nobody said she was anti-gay. I think I said it was a homoerotic video, which is a compliment in my book, especially in the 80s.
She's a diva I didn't see enough of, and sorely miss. I haven't heard anything from her in 20 years.
Please, relax, enjoy the fun.
Bonnie Tyler on Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Over-reacted and apologise
I'm sorry. I over-reacted and I sincerely apologise. And I deserve the ridicule.
I have a blind spot about Bonnie Tyler. Back in the 1980s when every other celebrity was offering tea and sympathy to all the poor gays who were dying of AIDS, Bonnie Tyler said that AIDS is just a disease and that there's nothing wrong with being gay. It doesn't sound like much now, but back then it was astoundingly radical. Also, back in the day she turned up on a kids' TV show as a celebrity agony aunt. When a teenager rang in to obliquely ask about his feelings for other boys, she was very common-sensical and matter-of-fact in saying that homosexuality was a fact of life, and while being gay could be difficult it was nothing to be ashamed of. Again, this doesn't sound unusual now, but back then it was earth-shattering to hear someone say it out loud on national TV as though it was simple wisdom. And she wasn't being touchy-feely fake nice, she was just being properly motherly to some poor kid who was confused. (No, I wasn't that kid.)
Looking at the video, I'm pretty sure Tyler would laugh her socks off at it and fully understand that it's not taking the piss out of her, rather of a whole style of video that existed then.
I'm just ridiculously over-protective of the woman. Anyway, apologies again.
Bonnie Tyler hasn't had a
Bonnie Tyler hasn't had a hit in decades, but she still makes occasional appearances in the UK. As has already been said, she was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (which regularly reaches down and plucks pop stars from the past for a nostalgic gawp at how much they've aged) and I've seen her at a couple of music festivals and concerts over the last ten years.
We've tried to get her to perform a couple of times at Cardiff Mardi Gras, but the timing never came off.
Sadly she often does appear a little out of it. I saw her perform in St David's Hall in Cardiff about five years ago with her brother, and it was a bit of a car crash. Her voice was so rough it was ridiculous.
Still, she is one of my favourites. I've loads of her songs on my iPod. 'Getting So Excited', 'Have you never seen the rain..." all great stuff.
In France
In the spirit of screw-the-lot-of-you guy...
I say LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! LEAVE HER ALOOOOONNNNNE!!!
And I won't screw the lot of you...only the ones who buy me dinner first.
awesome
Not counting Madonna (she's always #1 for me), this is my favourite 80's song and this spoof is great! Thanks for sharing!
She needs a comeback =)
The Meatloaf Anything for Love
The Meatloaf Anything for Love literal version video was another one that I really enjoyed last night when I started looking at more of these.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPko-aXvJM
OMG redux
Y'know, this just doesn't stop being uncontrollably funny. Now I'm laughing over lines like, "I'm totally shaking his hand."
The whole thing is such an amazing and glorious mess...and I mean that only in the nicest possible way, Screw-the-lot-of-you Guy.
And they shouldn't fence at night, or they're going to hurt the gymnasts. LOLOLOLOL.
I knew their were a couple lines I missed!
I'd like to echo the sentiment that we're not putting down Bonnie or her biggest hit. We're just laughing at the parody-one that I don't find in the least bit mean-spirited.
Since I'm from the U.S.A., I didn't know about Bonnie Tyler's tv appearances. I'm delighted to learn that she's gay-friendly. I've been a fan since "It's A Heartace". Has anyone ever heard her cover of Stevie Wonder's "Living In the City"? Not bad for a white girl from Wales.
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afhickman
Jim Sheridan collaborated on a parody version (of a sort) of "Eclipse" when he wrote the music to "Tanz der Vampire." The fangs and the posturing say it all--in German! Actually, I rather enjoyed this when I saw it on stage a few years back in Berlin. It subsequently flopped in the States. Here's the only live version I could find on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJURjF51LFE
"The mountain has wings."
Too bad they don't have it on You Tube
The gayest man on Earth would find this over the top
This is the funniest video I've seen sense eminem sniffing Bruno's but hole.
Thank you Brian. Thank you.
She should have worn a wimple!
Tho' I may be scarred, that is how I seem to remember Catholic school! The video has all come crashing into a dazed half-memory. The lyrics are somehow better this time around!
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