Sometimes past I’ve been taken aback by the visual story of a video but have no idea who sang the song. So these images get stuck in my head. Quite a few of these videos I’ve only seen once and don’t remember the music at all. Time to help me clear out the brain spackle, folks, Help me out with these if you can:
Video #1 was by this 1980s group that sang “Wild Wild West” and had these creepy looking dancing disembodied arms waving around the American flag in mid-air.
Video #2 was done in the last ten years and featured a black R&B singer who was having an affair with a gangster’s wife or girlfriend. As I recall, the cheating lovers get taken somewhere beaten and shot. Somehow they end up in a hospital where the woman later dies. I don’t remember the song or the singer. Really operatic. Probably over the top. I used to think it was Puff Daddy but now I’m not sure. I do get an east coast vibe from the video but I could be wrong.
Video #3 - what’s the one with the dark creepy-looking dead-looking stop animation doll? And nails. And twine. Brrr.
Video #4 - Came out not too long ago. There’s a singer, singing, walking through a neighborhood and people in the neighborhood form an impromptu parade and at the end he hits a plunger and there’s a huge explosion.
Video #5 - This one was an award-winning one and really popular one. I should know this. All I can remember is that it featured these short – OH WAIT! It’s “RIGHT NOW.” Van Halen, right? Phew. Okay. I don’t feel so bad.
Video #6 - The one with the guy on fire running down the street.
Video #7 - The one with Janet Jackson and Cab Calloway.
Video #8 - the one where Tupac is an Egyptian/African King. (yes, Tupac, not Eddie Murphy)
Video #9- I’m not sure how to set this one up: but it happens at night and there’s this slo-mo shot of someone either being thrown at or thrown through a car windshield from, I think, the back of the car. I think it’s in a junkyard? Rock music.
Video #10 - I swear to God I once turned on the country music video channel and saw some guys – 3 or 4 of 'em – singing about cowboys from outer space. What was that about?
Video #11 - It’s early nineties when I saw this and the video was even earlier. Some female group. A young Rosie O’Donnell may have been one of the dancers. Yes, I know how that sounds. She wasn’t as fat.
Video #12: DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY: OFF THE HOOK. All I know it, it starred some one-hit wonder female R&B singer and a very young Damon Wayans quite possibly pre-IN LIVING COLOR appeared in the video as her n’er do well amore. A thousand points and my eternal gratitude if you know this one, 'cuz NOBDY knows the hell I’m talking about.
