What were we watching!
Jun. 1st, 2009 10:43 amSo, the new hotness meme of the internet is the "Literal Video Verson" of old 80s MTV videos. This is funny because there was a weird trend back then to make the Music Videos into little 5 minute movies that occasionally had only tangential relations to the original songs.
One of my favorite ones (and the one that is on like 20% of my friend's LJ pages is the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" video from Bonnie Tyler.
The first time I watched this I died laughing and demanded![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
twelveoaks come and watch it. The second time I noticed something a little more disturbing.
On a Homoerotica scale from 1 to 10, this one goes to 11! And its not just homoerotica, it is pedophilia/ephebophilia homoerotica. Somehow I know Mark Foley has this song on continuous feed in his basement.
So what exact demographic was MTV shooting for when they filled the screen with half naked 16 year olds?twelveoaks insists that they are trying to titillate teenage girls. This is certainly possible. But generally MTV was watched by teenage boys. She also insists that a LOT of MTV videos were like this and I was just clueless. I remember watching Total Eclipse of the Heart and enjoying the creepy glowing eyed people, but I don't at all recall the students pulling off their uniforms and dancing around in leather speedos.
Am I crazy? Am I reading too much into this?
One of my favorite ones (and the one that is on like 20% of my friend's LJ pages is the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" video from Bonnie Tyler.
The first time I watched this I died laughing and demanded
twelveoaks come and watch it. The second time I noticed something a little more disturbing.On a Homoerotica scale from 1 to 10, this one goes to 11! And its not just homoerotica, it is pedophilia/ephebophilia homoerotica. Somehow I know Mark Foley has this song on continuous feed in his basement.
So what exact demographic was MTV shooting for when they filled the screen with half naked 16 year olds?
twelveoaks insists that they are trying to titillate teenage girls. This is certainly possible. But generally MTV was watched by teenage boys. She also insists that a LOT of MTV videos were like this and I was just clueless. I remember watching Total Eclipse of the Heart and enjoying the creepy glowing eyed people, but I don't at all recall the students pulling off their uniforms and dancing around in leather speedos. Am I crazy? Am I reading too much into this?
