In that, uh, classic video, Toni is wearing a cheerleader’s outfit with the initials “LVH” on the sweater.
What’s the “LVH” stand for?
Las Vegas High.
According to this page she’s an alumna:
I kinda figured that. Thanks.
Anybody else hear the UL that the cheerleaders in the video were actually men in drag?
IIRC, they were from a local college.
That is one freaky video. Toni looks too robotic.
I didn’t realize it until I saw a special about 80’s videos, but Toni Basil was almost 40 years old when she made that video - she had been in music since the early 60’s. So she’d be over 60 now.
As of today: exactly 61 years and a month (if you believe the birthdate given on the IMDB).
Just checked an old database of California driver’s license/voter registrations:
ANTONIA C BASILOTTA
22-SEP-43
She and Teri Garr used to be go-go dancers on Hullabaloo in the 1960s, and they’re in Nancy Sinatra’s video of These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.
No, no…all of the cheerleaders are women. They’re just all very, very athletic women. I swear she raided a softball team or two to cast that thing…
What about the interpretation that “Mickey” wouldn’t hook up with her because he was gay?
Well, I thought it put an interesting spin on things…
She choreographed the “Daddy’s Song” sequence in Head (1968), in which she danced with Davy Jones.
She is so freaking cute in that movie- I just want to scoop her up and cuddle her!
This is the second Thread in a week in which I’ve gotten the opportunity to express my desire to scoop Toni Basil up and cuddle her.
Find the other Thread and you win a donkey!
I had actually never analyzed the “Mickey” lyrics, nor have I ever heard a scholarly analysis presented, but your interpretation does shed new light upon the lyric:
Come on Baby give it to me any way you can
Any way you want to do it, I’ll take it like a man
:eek: I think you’re right!
Would
this be the thread? Where’s my Donkey?
I’ve always thought that.
Horray! Congratulations, lawoot! Your donkey will be in the mail early next week!
I have a crystal clear memory of reading a newspaper article which stated that she was never a member of the LVH cheer squad. Damned if I can find it online though. Everything online says she was head cheerleader.
I seem to recall seeing that she hadn’t actually been on the LVH cheerleading squad on Pop-Up Video, not that that’s the world’s best cite. They also said that “Mickey” had originally been intended to be sung by a guy about a girl, and Toni Basil just changed the name, which puts yet another different spin on the “I’ll take it like a man” line.
My favorite part of that video is the booger.
Gotta love the booger, boys.