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I promised to include more 1983-85 amazingness on this blog, as I try to recreate the pizzazz from before everything fell to shit. The era is rich in some of the best lost hits around, and some of them even have surprise ending stories that we love so much.
This entry is oddly funny yet left me scratching my head.
Peep the first scene in the video. That scene appears to include the band members, and the first thing you notice is that strange effect that makes one of them look like Big Bird. I'm talking about the guy you see from the side.
I wasn't even the only one who noticed this. The first time I saw this video on MTV when I was growing up, someone pointed this out right away.
More importantly, what in the hell is going on? There were a lot of goofy videos on MTV back then. But that scene is one of the most inexplicable that I can recall.
Maybe we need a secret decoder ring to figure it out. I remember when MTV ran ads trying to get hapless suckers to buy a "license" to watch their channel. Maybe they also sold little decoders you could look through like that little red thing that came in a Trix box that made red roads on a map disappear. They probably even had a commercial where some kid said, "Wow!"
Another thing like that is that weird gesture that music stars made in MTV promo bumpers that looked like a lion holding up its paw and moving its claws. What was that all about?
I guess we can't assume the music charts have heard the last of Real Life, because apparently they released a new album as recently as 2020.
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