Artist: The Motels
Album: Shock
Video: YouTube has the complete video, but you have a 20-second commercial first.
This song and video explores the complex human emotion of shame.
Look, if you spend the night with a random sex partner in a sleazy motel in the middle of nowhere, I can understand how that would elicit feelings of shame. Further, if following said affair, you gazed out the window and found your image on a giant billboard singing to you on the very subject of your shame, I can understand how that would cause an even deeper and perhaps more complicated level of shame. But if ultimately a giant hand reached out of the billboard and beckoned you to join your video self in a duet, I think that would result in confusion, surprise, and utter bewilderment.
The Motels have been together in various incarnations since 1971, and still tour and record to this day. Their biggest hits were in the early 80's - both "Only The Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer" reached the top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100.
I was not familiar with this band, song or video in 1985. It seems like the kind of crap I would have liked.
Today's Birthday: Tina Yothers, who played Jennifer on Family Ties, is 39 years old today. Geez.
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