the first time i saw the starburst parody commercial, it cracked me up, because that video always was so undeniably bad, but the kids (rather luckily) don't get it--
and i'll be damned if an accidental click makes me listen to that song again--

btw, i'm apparently damned anyway, but mostly on account of semantics and not for anything really good

i love that starburst thing--it's so sick--almost as sick as the original video. we have to find an online version of it to show dodgy.

ahhh!!! click on Art Center

warning--horrible! ; >

I'd never seen that starburst parody ... it's hilarious. I always found the whole teacher-stalking-blind-student aspect of the original video so romantic.

In the Hello video the sculpture is very funny, however I think the creepy late night phone call is funnier.

But there was so much of this sort of thing in the eighties that it didn't seem so out of place then. Singer trying to act - check. Dialogue and sound effects dominating the sound track - check. Rolled up jacket sleeves - check. Girl dancing in leotard - check. Singer singing song to girls face while grimacing to display sincerety - check. To collect the full set of eighties video cliches all it would need is to be filmed in black and white (ideally with only one object appearing in colour) and employ the use of a wind machine.

Dissapointingly Ritchie doesn't do that thing that so many singers did, holding a clenched fist up to his chest to show that what he's singing truly comes from the heart. Maybe I'm getting him confused with Pete Cetera.

Hopefully the one colour used isn't neon green

btw I gotta say thanks from the bottom of my heart I have had that damn song going through my head off and on all freakin' day, it's almost enough to drive someone to maim... puhleeze make it stop, it hurts.