80's Weekend Rewind #8

Journey MTV Music

(Author’s Note: I’m trying out the delayed post option here so hopefully you’ll see this at some point. Also, if this isn’t proof of the awesome power of mtvmusic.com I don’t know what is. Because I’ve been wanting to post this for months but YouTube wouldn’t let me embed it.)

There is nothing more classic 80’s than Journey’s Separate Ways. Let us detail the awesomeness at hand in this one.

· Steve Perry is wearing a t-shirt that is so tight that we can see that this song is making him very excited.
· The drummer is wearing a shirt that reads “Foosball”
· Dramatic cuts! Every five seconds! Always seeming to end on a closeup of Steve Perry’s face, which is in great need of moisturizer.
· Air keyboards! Yes, someone told the keyboardist to act like he was playing despite the fact that there was nothing there.
· There is a woman powerwalking through a loading dock throughout the entire video and it is never referred to or elaborated on.
· The poor keyboardist also has to play with his keyboard attached to the side of the building.
· I believe at one point there is a closeup of Steve Perry’s mouth and I would have been glad to have gone my entire life without seeing that image.
· The other four guys in the band simultaneously turn to the camera to sing the chorus.
· The drummer is at one point playing on oil barrels. This was obviously back before it became a precious resource.
· All of the guys in the band, standing on loading pallets, trying to rock out to the camera without instruments.

And to think this was the biggest band on the planet.