Worst … Video … Ever
WHERE IS THE TENDERNESS, PEOPLE?
FITSNews – February 8, 2008 – All we can say is thank God we were playing with Star Wars and Transformers action figures back in 1985, not watching General Public videos.
Alright, alright, we were playing Barbie. And we may have recorded this video and watched it like 4,562 times … a week. For seven months in a row. And then for three more months in 1986. Fine. Whatever. But judge not lest ye be judged, people. Barbie was a tall drink of water with some fly accessories (and automobiles). She also looked incredibly hot naked, especially with this song playing in the background – or so we’ve been told.
Anyway, our own Sic Willie actually covered this tune regularly during his rock-n-roll days, but his band used distortion pedals and an up-tempo, “four on the floor” beat, which is musician code for “not gay.”
In fact, our only question after watching the utterly disturbing homoerotic pointlessness of “Tenderness” is how the hell they got a badass like Bruce Springsteen to do a cameo at the end of the video … say it ain’t so, Boss. Say it ain’t so …
Comments
By sid on February 8th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
The actual General Public video for the song is nearly just as gay. What happened in the transition from English Beat to GP to cause this dramatic shift in sexual orintation?
By anon on February 8th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
umm… this is not the video that General Public released. It is some kind of knock off.
By Billy Squier on February 8th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
That video is nothing compared to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI
By Give Me FITS on February 8th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Sid — seriously now, if you didn’t see the alternative sexual orientation of Ranking Roger, Steele and Cox (can those really be their real names?)…then dude, you were asleep during the entire Reagan administration.
I always got the feeling that the Beat breakup into GP and FYC was just a bad man-lover spat.
By sid on February 11th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Yeah, I guess there wasn’t a closet built to hold them, but the Beat’s music was good, and not so overtly femmy. One could wonder if the breakup was due to a dispute over whether the band’s music should appeal more to those who aggressively avoid feminine contact, but since both bands chose that route, it must have simply been the man-lover spat thing.