'real version' remakes of some early MTV videos

[thrihyrne]

I'm hooked. I admit it; I became a fan of doing laundry in 7th grade solely because my mom said I could watch MTV if -- and only if -- I was folding laundry. Some of these literal remakes are genius and show just how awful some of the original videos were. This one, of Billy Idol's White Wedding, I have to embed. In fall of '83, I was the last one in my household to go to school. My sister and brother went off, and my mom went off to grad school. Once I had the house to myself, I would illicitly turn on MTV and then call my then-best friend, Kelly Killingsworth, with whom I shared a birthday, when this video came on.

Yes, it's Thev trivia. And the literal remakes are glorious camp. Any others born around 1970 or thereabouts... welcome to parodies of our early adolescence.

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[lena3.livejournal.com]

*snickers!!*

What memories! Not for myself really, but my sister begged me to take her to his concerts. I've been to two back in the day. The set for one was two woman's legs and Billy came out through the middle. Then the second concert there was a big fist and it turn and the middle went up and flipped everyone in the audience off. LOL

Good times!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Wow. He's a case, to be sure! I just adored this video in the day. Then again, I was 13. :P Good times!