![]() ![]() Yes, of course, ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ is composed of multiple genius moments stacked on top of each other, but whoever it was that had the moment of divine inspiration (and it was probably mega-songwriter Desmond Child, let’s be honest) to include the little ‘darlin” in that intro-chorus but not in the main chorus deserves to be celebrated with custom license plates and thumbs up for the rest of their days.īut back to the video, which above all else-and I think this is why I love it as much as I do-just wants to communicate a good time.Ī good time that can be summed up with the appearance of The Trousers-an inspired Frankenstein’s monster of red and black leather that greet us almost straight away. I know we’ve only just started this journey but I’m afraid we have to take a second here to acknowledge a moment of pure genius. The sacred altar upon which our species worshipped for that brief spell that we had the means to do so.Īnd then, because it’s the only right thing to do and because it’s perfectly in sync with a song that starts at 100 and never once let’s up, it blows that stage the fu*k up. SHOT THROUGH THE HEART, AND YOU’RE TO BLAME (darlin’) YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAMEĪppropriately, the song’s video opens with a shot of the stage. Everybody knows that intros and verses are for pansies. The fantastic thing about ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ is that it starts as all musical geniuses agree a song should always start. That’s right, baby! That beautiful explosion of hot pink and purple that is ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’!Ī massive number 1 hit and first single from Bon Jovi’s 1986 monster third album, ‘Slippery When Wet’, ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ is a perennial banger, and will long remain even after our civilisation is reduced to dust. In the face of the actual Right answer, all others could only come up short. Without a doubt, The Greatest Song Ever Written, with an appropriately perfect and ridiculous (the two concepts exist in a divine synergy in my world, you may have noticed) video.īut nope. It would be ‘Bad Medicine’, wouldn’t it? It would have to be. ![]() ![]() The answer was clearly obvious from the get go. Would it be the stone cold, transcendental classic that is ‘Livin’ On a Prayer’? Or maybe the turn of the millennium, nascent-internet-featuring, time capsule tunnel rave of ‘It’s My Life’? Or, sh*t-scratch all that. The only question was: Which would it be? There wouldn’t be a shortage of options. It was even more obvious that sooner or later, a Bon Jovi video would have to feature.īecause, I mean, come on? How could it not? Immediately after finishing that piece it was clear to me that I was going to have to do more of these. Then, a little while later, I did the same thing for another slice of heaven: Van Halen’s perfectly ludicrous video for ‘ Jump’. 11 hit, ‘ Carry On Wayward Son.’ It’s a creation that has brought me-and continues to bring me-so much joy over the years that it just felt like a dereliction of my duties as someone with any sort of platform to not be able to share that joy as far and wide as I possibly could. ![]() All I wanted was to celebrate my ridiculously nerdy love for the gloriously nerdy perfection that is the music video for Kansas’ 1976 no. I started this series without ever intending for it to be a series. ![]()
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