Melissa sends this and says, " A couple of years back, a friend and I caught this video on VH1 Classic, and were in tears by the end. The best part is the ripping of the shirt."
I just wish I could un-watch this thing. Ladies, if there are men in the room, especially little boys, make them leave now. This video will just confuse and frighten them.
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I stopped the insanity at 1:18. Had to go floss my eyes, gargle my ears.
I wonder why I didn't notice the skipping, cavorting and blatant prancing back in the day. Probably distracted by the floor-humping, random gyrating and emphatic finger-snapping.
Ah, Billy. You make us long for simpler, stupider times.
As soon as I read "shirt ripping," I sadly knew what it was. I pissed off a lot of people sending this around last year. And people wonder why I never liked Billy Squier ... he likes himself enough for all of us.
Wow, they just don't make'em like they used to, huh? LMAO I kept waiting for the Village People to show up and...uh...rock him LOL
Apparently Mr. Squier learned how to dance by watching the Solid Gold dancers.
Or would that be "learned" how to "dance"?
Oh... someone else who remembers the Solid Gold Dancers! Ha. But I think Mr. Squier saw Flashdance one too many times and thought, hey, I have an idea for my video!
He looks like a T-Rex dancing with those little flappy hands.
Unfuckingbelivable. Don't entertainers typically have managers who advise them against making total asses of themselves like this?
The first portion was entertaining, in any event.
Cary's right on the over influence of Flashdance.
I remember watching a VH1 special on Mr. Squier a few years ago with some friends. To a person the reaction from all the men was, "His music still rocks, but I didn't realize then how effeminate he is. Damn."
He wakes up in silk sheets, puts on a ripped shirt, which he later rips further. He may well wear that shirt under another tomorrow. He prances, he minces about, his arms seem only to be articulated below the elbow. I think the look the director was going for was the teenage girl dancing about in her bedroom. The only thing missing was the hairbrush to sing into.
I've never thought it was okay for men to wear pink.
"minces about" - great phrase
OMG Cary, I am scarred for life all over again.
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I cleared the room of all males before viewing this just to be safe. I wish I would have cleared me from the room too! That video is just so wrong!
aw i thought he was prett hot until he started... writhing.
cribge.
Anything after Emotions In Motion album really sucked and it was a short trip there anyways when you think about it.
Hahahaha...T-rex! Great pull! Somewhere I read that he might be gay? Where would anyone get that? The pink tank, scarf, sleeveless undershirt and self portraits everwhere...hey, remeber teh 80's?
I only made it to 0:58. Blech. Geez the 80's were bad. **shudder**
Its like his upper arms are stuck to his body and his forearms are trying to escape
this video should be titled "Death of a Career"
He rips the shirt in half, but leaves the sleeve dangling there like it is somehow protecting his puny little arm. The other sleeve was not doing as good of a job?
Yet another "Dancin' to the Oldies" video featuring a very young Richard Simmons escapes from the vault...
He's like the love child of Antonio Banderas and Richard Simmons.
The comments are funnier than the video. Well done, comedians!
that is entirely too much prancing for even an 80s rock video
He dances like a gay drum major. Kenny Ortega went on the direct the High School Musical movies.
Kenny Ortega's videos are almost always hilarious.
This clip has vaulted me from stalker status to commenter. OMG! I have not laughed this hard for ages. I was in high school in the 80's and I don't remember this lovely number. For the first 3 minutes I was thinking this was Richard Simmons. I am glad I am at lunch and my office door is closed or my co-workers would think I have lost it. I have to go reapply mascara now!
I'm ashamed to say I LOVED this song when I was ten. Now it just makes me shake my head.
Lucky for me (unlike Mr. Squire) the most bone-crushingly embarrassing moments of my life were NOT filmed for posterity.
I will confess that I do like this song. But I remember finding the video, and its performer, repulsive even back in the day. It's hilarious how many of your 80s video cliches are in play here, and how they came together in such a freakish way. I can just imagine him showing this to his buddies after it was filmed and having them go, "Dude, NO -- writhing on silk sheets is only for chicks!"
Ah, the 80s...
And the Solid Gold dancers! Surely there's some footage of them out there on YouTube?
Yeah, the song is fine. I like his music. I just can't look at the man. He makes me want to go for my electric hedge trimmers and buzz off that buzzard's nest on his head.
"Dude, NO, writhing on the sheets is only for chicks!" HAHAHA!
Bean Counter - welcome to visibility. Thanks for reading LOTD... your home for vapid misogyny.
btw.. all of you who requested my pic.. that's me in the profile shot. Really.
"Dancin' to the Oldies" - "Richard Simmons" - "mincing" - "gay drum major" - "prancing" - "T-Rex"
Stop, stop, I can't stand it. ROTFL with tears in my eyes.
Go, Cary!!!!!!! Nice ...view. ;-)
His dancing is like a weird cross between richard simmons and a guy with epilepsy.
I've had a really shitty day, Cary. Thanks for making me feel better. At least I'm not Billy Squire.
The only thing that disgusts me more is thinking about him singing an instructional song about hand jobs :'( At least that is what I was told when I was a wee lass and certainly don't think of rowing when I hear it today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHc-yIAPbg
Stroke IS the word.
Word.
All of Billy's videos were . . .errrm, suspect. The original video for The Stroke is also . . . precious. Even Wikipedia has no love for Rock Me Tonight, though:
Two years passed between Emotions In Motion and Squier's next album Signs Of Life. It was his third consecutive Platinum album. The album's first single release, "Rock Me Tonite" was Billy's biggest pop hit. It reached #15 on Billboard's Hot 100 - as well as #1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart - in late 1984. However, the video for the track, which largely consisted on Billy dancing around a bedroom in a pink tank top, frequently appears on "worst music video ever" lists.
Aw i totally have a thing for guys with a huge mop of curly hair. once again, the writhing is too much.
Eeeewwwwwww.
Jumped the shark, for real.
Now I know where the "Fresh Prince" writers got the idea for "The Carleton"
uh oh. i'm pretty sure i dance like this.
That Billy...he's such a top.
Er...maybe a bottom. ;)
Lefty -- at just after two minutes, he rocks the imaginary microphone ... if you can bear it, take another look. Because, although I was already in two minutes of straight hysterics (straight, heh, something he definitely is not), I lost all control when I saw him 'grab the mic and siiiiing'.
I mean, I know it's not the hairbrush mic that I have at home, but it's damn close. Too close.
Cary -- nice pond. ;)
Ha ! Is it wrong that I love this vid ? One of the funniest things I saw today.
Rock him tonight? I'd rather stone him!
That's just wrong.
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