On our last podcast episode, we spent the entire runtime pouring over the music video for Benny Mardones’ “Into The Night,” which featured, among other things, a 34-year-old Mardones’ throwing a magic carpet into the room of a 16-year-old girl, then flying away with her on a date. (Should there be quotation marks around the word date? She’s a kid, she can’t consent to buying a pack of cigs much less an excursion where the choices are acquiesce to the demands of your captor or PLUMMET TO YOUR DEATH! !!
I digress. We had so much pouring over that video like it was the Zapruder film that we had our guest from the episode, comedian Pete Bergen, return once more to dissect another music video gem: Aaron Tippin’s “That’s The Closest I’ll Get To Lovin’ You.” While everyone is of the age of consent in this one, it features a singer that looks like redneck Freddie Mercury, a gaggle of wino Southern women whose pictures are next to “pretty 90s white bitch” in the dictionary, and a shed that looks like it’s covered in the singer’s semen. Oh, and to top it all off, it was directed by the same guy who directed Metallica’s “One.” If you enjoyed the last episode, you’ll enjoy this one. If you didn’t, drink bleach.
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For this episode, we dissect a music video that co-host Mikael Johnson brought to the table, Benny Mardones’ “Into The Night.” The song’s troubling lyrics, depicting the downright illegal plowing […]
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