# Least sexy video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296 "2019-08-27T05:05:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/1 "2019-08-27T05:05:18Z")
Off the top of my head, I’ll go with [_Fat_](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE), or possibly [_Luka_](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/2 "2019-08-27T05:24:04Z")
I’m not finding it on Youtube, but Johnny Cash’s video for his cover of _Hurt_, while it’s brilliant and heartbreaking, is highly unsexy. If you haven’t seen it, it’s an elderly Johnny and June (both of them passed away soon after the video was shot), in their home and his now-shuttered museum, looking at pictures and artifacts from their lives. I did find a GIF with a short clip of the video: [https://media.giphy.com/media/hvW17EP9IOLqE/giphy.gif](https://media.giphy.com/media/hvW17EP9IOLqE/giphy.gif) ([The song, without the video, can be heard here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSS2IgnnBo8)) ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/3 "2019-08-27T06:19:44Z")
At first I thought this was an impossible question, since everything is potentially a turn on for somebody somewhere. Then I realized: Coldplay. Nobody can find any arousal when a Coldplay song is playing. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/4 "2019-08-27T06:22:57Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > At first I thought this was an impossible question, since everything is potentially a turn on for somebody somewhere. > Then I realized: Coldplay. Nobody can find any arousal when a Coldplay song is playing. This is true. Also Nickleback. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/5 "2019-08-27T06:46:04Z")
[Rock Me Tonite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI) by Billy Squier. Ain’t nothing sexy about killing your career in five long minutes. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/6 "2019-08-27T07:33:08Z")
DEVO’s, “Are You Experienced,” featuring the corpse of Hendrix, sure turned my ‘nads to ice. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/7 "2019-08-27T07:57:29Z")
^^^you make me laugh, Burpo. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/8 "2019-08-27T16:58:17Z")
Mildly NSFW: [Sexy and know it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx6JDQCslE) _wiggle-wiggle-wiggle_ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/9 "2019-08-27T17:17:01Z")
Am I the only one in the world who thinks Todd Rundgren dragging the dead body of ‘Mary Jane’ around on the dance floor is kind of ghoulish? ‘Last Dance With Mary Jane.’ (but what do I know?) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/10 "2019-08-27T18:12:51Z")
Ohmagosh ohmagosh, I can’t believe I finally get to be the one to do [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ). Also, Marilyn Manson makes me shudder with whatever is the exact opposite of desire. **Blank Slate** , thanks for giving me a laugh (and a nose full of soda). I’ve seen that video many times, and vaguely remembered how goofy it is but that cracked me up just as much as the first time. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/11 "2019-08-27T18:15:45Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Am I the only one in the world who thinks Todd Rundgren dragging the dead body of ‘Mary Jane’ around on the dance floor is kind of ghoulish? ‘Last Dance With Mary Jane.’ (but what do I know?) Psssst. That’s Tom Petty and Mary Jane is actually Kim Basinger, so some (okay, one) there are at least some sexy elements. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/12 "2019-08-27T18:29:57Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > Mildly NSFW: > > [Sexy and know it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx6JDQCslE) > _wiggle-wiggle-wiggle_ Indeed! It’s also a very unsexy Zumba routine around here. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/13 "2019-08-27T18:40:50Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > [Rock Me Tonite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI) by Billy Squier. Ain’t nothing sexy about killing your career in five long minutes. How did this kill his career? I mean, I’ve seen the comments on YouTube but those comments are sure not from the time of the video. My nomination is [Rockit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY) (Herbie Hancock, who had nothing to do with making the video), because I think they were trying for sexy and got uncanny. Or maybe they were trying for weird, in which case they hit it. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/14 "2019-08-27T18:59:22Z")
Joy Division _[Atmosphere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EdUjlawLJM)_. It’s basically a weird funeral procession laden with images of the recently-deceased Ian Curtis. I’m surely it’s technically possible that someone can get off on this, but… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/15 "2019-08-27T19:45:27Z")
Every R.E.M. and every Nirvana video. They didn’t do sexy. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/16 "2019-08-27T19:48:06Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > How did this kill his career? I mean, I’ve seen the comments on YouTube but those comments are sure not from the time of the video. > **[Rock Me Tonite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Me_Tonite)** > > "Rock Me Tonite" is a hit song written and recorded by American rock artist Billy Squier. It was released in June 1984 as the lead single from his platinum-plus album Signs of Life. The song is Squier's highest charting U.S. single (as well as his last single to crack the top 40), peaking at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hitting No. 10 on the Cash Box singles chart. It also returned him to No. 1 on the Top Rock Tracks chart in August 1984. > Despite its major success, the song is sometimes ... > [@](#): > > Despite its major success, the song is sometimes associated with the end of Squier’s career as a singles artist due to the music video, which was described as one of the worst ever in the 2011 book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution.[2] Directed by Kenny Ortega, it shows Squier dancing around a bed with pastel-colored satin sheets. Squier’s concert ticket sales immediately suffered, and he later fired his managers. He has accused Ortega of deceiving him and altering his original concept, which Ortega denies. While Squier has remained steadfast that the video alone was responsible for the initial decline in his popularity, other commentators have been less certain. > [@](#): > > The video for the track was directed and choreographed by Kenny Ortega, who later directed the High School Musical films. It shows Squier waking up in a bed with satiny, pastel-colored sheets, then dancing around the bed as he gets dressed, ultimately putting on a pink tank top over a white shirt. At the conclusion he leaves the room with a pink guitar to join his band in performing the song. > > For I Want My MTV, their 2011 oral history of the network’s early years, authors Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks interviewed over 400 people, primarily artists, managers, filmmakers, record company executives and MTV employees. They said that none could agree on the best video, but all agreed that “Rock Me Tonite” was the worst. They devoted an entire chapter of the book to it.[4] Martha Quinn, an MTV VJ when “Rock Me Tonite” was released, called it “a super-fun video and a super-great song,” and commented, “I don’t remember that video being poorly received at the time.”[5] > > Squier himself, and other observers, believe its homoeroticism alienated a significant portion of his fan base (predominantly teenaged boys at the time) and ruined his career. “I liked [him] very much,” says Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions, “but then I saw him doing this video in a very terrible way. I couldn’t take the music serious anymore.”[2] > [@](#): > > Ortega suggested to him that he do some of the same moves he did during his show, without his guitar. Squier’s idea was that the resulting footage should be grainy and in darker, subdued colors, evoking the 1980 film American Gigolo. He rejected a suggestion by Ortega that it look instead like Tom Cruise’s air guitar scene near the beginning of the 1983 film Risky Business.[2] He was trying to cultivate a macho rock-star image. The video showed him prancing around dressed like Jennifer Beals in _Flashdance_. He was noted for his guitar work. He is not shown playing an instrument until near the end of the video. I’m not certain the video is solely responsible for his troubles, but they say that his ticket sales dropped sharply after the video came out. ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/17 "2019-08-27T19:56:27Z")
Was David Bowie in the 80s thought to be sexy? Mick Jagger? Well, not so much here: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HasaQvHCv4w/maxresdefault.jpg "David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HasaQvHCv4w) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/18 "2019-08-27T20:15:21Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > [Rock Me Tonite - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Me_Tonite) > > He was trying to cultivate a macho rock-star image. The video showed him prancing around dressed like Jennifer Beals in _Flashdance_. > > He was noted for his guitar work. He is not shown playing an instrument until near the end of the video. > > I’m not certain the video is solely responsible for his troubles, but they say that his ticket sales dropped sharply after the video came out. Got it. “Despite its major success” it killed his career. Because he was too prancy. Real men don’t prance. Gotta say, reading that I can see that the video might have been better artistically and thematically if it had been darker and grainier but at the time I thought it was sexy. Obviously a straight guy wouldn’t have thought so and they were the ones driving the culture. As always. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/19 "2019-08-27T20:26:25Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Every R.E.M. and every Nirvana video. They didn’t do sexy. Pop Song 89 (I won’t post a link as it has female nudity) ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296/20 "2019-08-27T20:43:18Z")
“Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits. Unless you’re really into early computer animation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-sexy-video/839296.md?page=2)