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Huey Lewis and the News were major players in the soundtrack of my high school years. I confess I always liked their earlier, raw work more than the slick, studio-polished tracks from the album Fore! on. Their modern take of 50s rock and do-wop struck a chord with me, and their first hit, Do You Believe in Love, is a favorite. The video, on the other hand, is a real melon scratcher. It looks as if nobody from the band to the director to the film editors had any clue about how to put together a music video. So they mashed a few ideas together, wedged in some performance clips and generally mugged for the camera. Does anyone else find it disconcerting that the woman in bed remains utterly oblivious to the band throughout the piece, despite their singing and stalking? I think I've figured out the meta-narrative, though. She's a groupie, and Huey and the boys all died at some point between the show where she hooked up with them and the video. That's right, they're ghosts, following her around, even though they don't know they're dead. It's like The Sixth Sense, only without Bruce Willis and that kid who sees dead people. Kinda sad to realize M. Night Shyamalan biggest hit was ripped off from an 80s music video, but looking at his recent films, it kinda starts to make sense.



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