Music Video #88 (Day 28 of 2009)

This video is called Goody Two Shoes. It's by Adam and the Ants. It's about a Hanna Barbara character, I think.



Or maybe not. This video starts with a middle aged butler serving drinks in a hotel. Inside is who I assume is Adam. He's dressed in leather pants and ties his shirt above his navel. Huh. He puts on a coat that doesn't cover up the silliness of what he's wearing below it, and he doesn't help by not buttoning it up. He passes his guitarist and bids him good bye.

He starts singing as he ends up in a dressing room. There are three women, and one of them looks very much like that guy who died recently when he was at his peak in the early 80s. Man, even then there were women who looked like him. Adam sings about how if you have your heart broken, just put on some make up and hide it. He sits down with the three women as the press snaps several pictures. I'd like to see what the tabloids say. Adam continues that if you can't say what you want to a gal, send something like a necklace instead.

Suddenly we're introduced to one of the reporters who is a repressed librarian type. Man, I can't wait until she takes those glasses off. The reporters point to Adam and accuse him of being a goody two shoes. I'm guessing that he's the filthiest thing in the world but the media needs him to seem innocent. Anyway, I guess the video is about a guy who doesn't want to be seen as virtuous so he's trying to break out and change that image.

The press asks him what he does, because if you don't drink or smoke, there must be something wrong with you. The song agrees, as it implies that the media is digging for something. Hey, I don't drink or smoke and there's nothing wrong with me. Oh, right, nobody cares. Forgot about that. The press will eat Adam up because the press is all powerful. Well, not really, but it is pretty powerful.

Adam starts flirting with the RL while we see what looks like that guy in one of his famous costumes. Meanwhile the press is going to be mean and stuff. It's going to try to compare Adam to Al Green. Who's that? Some guy who was a R&B guy who became a gospel singer for a while. May I ask why this is so bad? Maybe I'm missing something here. Does the press annoy hard types by making them look soft? If he was always soft up to this point, why is that the media's fault? Why I am I examining this?

Everybody dances. Adam sings that no one is the boss of him! He's not going to let them make a superstar out of him. I guess he wants to be indie or something. He spends the rest of the video trying to get the RL's glasses off. He hops over her while she lies in bed, but this unique mating ritual fails. Finally he gets her to let down her hair, which is always important when you're trying to have your way with a repressed librarian. Butler peaks through a giant keyhole. Adam finally takes her glasses off and ... Actually it's kinda disappoining. The video ends with her thigh on his hip.





This is a fun little song that has a fifties feel to it. I think it's the fifties. It reminds me of last year's Strut by the Stray Cats which was a song made for the eighties with a feel of a different era. The video is really strange, and I'm not sure what they were going for with the tied up shirt. I'm keeping my guesses to myself.

The awesome thing is Sir Isaac Newton. Carol Burnett thought he was so dreamy!