Archive for March, 2007
How Not to Make a Video, Part Two
Corey Hart’s “Sunglasses at Night” was a huge hit when I was a teenager, peaking at number seven on Billboard’s Top Ten chart in 1984.
The song is utter crap. Inexplicably, I adore it and have for over twenty years.
It’s got a spooky keyboard groove and dark guitar noodling, both elements that are completely typical of the time period. The lyrics are ridiculous: I wear my sunglasses at night/So I can, so I can/Watch you weave then breathe your story lines. Yeah, I have no idea what that means, either.
The video is equally wretched and baffling. Let’s watch, shall we?
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