Friday Night Videos

During the Golden Age of MTV, back in the mid- to late-80s, videos were such a hot commodity that the curious phenomenon arose of artists producing multiple videos in support of a single. Often times the second video would utterly supplant the first. George Harrison's "I Got My Mind Set On You" is a perfect example. Yeah, the penny arcade is simplistic and repetitious, but so's the song. I feel there's an innocent goofiness to it that serves the song well. The follow-up video of George singing and dancing in a sort of haunted lodge filled with the singing heads of wall-mount animal trophies is amusing, too, in its own way, but the fact that the penny arcade utterly disappeared once the animal heads arrived on the scene has always annoyed me.



Previously on Friday Night Videos... Jill Sobule.

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