Digging deeper into their fruitful 80s period:
I missed one shot in the beginning of the video and was so damn confused. Basically the chick decides to burn Paul's car, but then there are shots of her in a towel dancing in a mirror. Rewatched and figured out she's mad at Paul. Probably for the VD.
I read this paragraph to the Boss; she chortled.
Anyway, the song is okay for the standards of monster ballads of the day. Some interesting key changes between the minor key verse, major key chorus. There are better ones out there, but worse too. The fashion isn't too ridiculous compared to their other videos at the time.
I'm not sure I can think of a single metal ballad that I don't loathe. Just wretched, stinky cheese by form.
I'm the board Warrant apologist, so I have a remarkable acceptance of this style.
That's one fuck of a blind spot.
I want it known that while I’m an occasional metal apologist, metal ballads are godawful. I’m here for the headbanging, not some fucking thorny rose or silent lucidity.
Chuck Klosterman is generally an annoying writer, but his book Fargo Rock City is pretty dang good. And in it he says that in the 80s, he and his buddies would assess whether a band was really metal or not by asking whether girls liked them. So Def Lep and Poison and all those hair metal bands were out, but chuds like Maiden clearly were definitely in. The sexism embedded in their argument can be stripped away to get to the question of whether there's a wretched ballad lurking. The worst part of metal's success in the 80s was that it increased pressure for bands to have those hideous Poison kind of songs to get on MTV.
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I want it known that while I’m an occasional metal apologist, metal ballads are godawful. I’m here for the headbanging, not some fucking thorny rose or silent lucidity.
I take it in smaller doses but if I need a brain reset Slayer's Reign in Blood album usually does the trick. Its like a my life is totally fucked up I need to clear my head.
