Sunday, October 4, 2009

Miami Sound Machine "Bad Boy"

Miami Sound Machine made two videos for "Bad Boy", either because the song is that good or because this video is that bad. Hey look, there's Gloria Estefan telling the pretty boy to get lost. And there's Gloria walking into a Brian Setzer video...wait, what just happened? I would imagine that this video is EXACTLY what most people picture when they first hear the song. It's your typical Hollywood story: boy meets girl, boy loses girl to beastality, boy gets girl.


It's like the songwriter and the cats had an "anything you can do, I can do badder" contest that ended with Estefan growing a tail. The song's writer gives us interesting insight into Estefan. For example, her heart goes "beat, beat, beat, beat, beat beat" and her phone goes "ring, ring, ring, ring, ring ring". Pretty bad writing, but the cats answer at the 1:41 mark, taking the time to show us what a beating heart looks like. And they tie things up at 3:01..."no Gloria, finger phones don't cut it in our world...let me pull out my car phone...this is how it's done."

80s music...you make me feel so good...


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