Friday Night Videos

I saw Belinda Carlisle--former lead singer of the Go-Go's--perform in San Antonio last night. Her voice was in fine form and her moves were that of a 24-year-old, which belied her actual 64 years. It was a fun show, but just a few song in I was surprised to realize that she'd enojoyed far more hits as a solo artist than she ever did with the Go-Go's (yet she's still primarily thought of in relation to that group). This shouldn't have come as a surprise, since I remember the success of her solo career, but the brain gets set in its ways, does it not? So here's her first solo hit, "Mad About You," which came out the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school. This video marks a strong break from her Go-Go's image. She's very femme, painfully cute and impossibly young. Yes, that's Duran Duran's Andy Taylor playing guitar, and for my tikiphile friends out there the album she's messing with is Yma Sumac! I mean, you couldn't get more obscure in 1986 if you tried. And I still think they should've used this as the theme song to Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt's sitcom of the same name.

Previously on Friday Night Videos... Stan Getz.

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