Tears For Fears
These two guys made some incredible music in the 80's. Their hair......maybe not so incredible, but lets talk about them and their early attempts at music videos.
Curt Smith (on the left) and Roland Orzabal (on the right) formed Tears For Fears in 1981 and by the spring of 1983, they held the #1 spot in the UK album chart with their first release, The Hurting. Pretty impressive.
Well, if Roland's dancing was part of the equation, they may have never gotten a record contract. I know, there was plenty of strange dancing in the 80's but this may take the cake....and stomp all over it with his dance moves. His dancing in the video for Mad World is........unusual? I'm not sure if he's trying to signal for a stolen base or if he's directing planes out at the airport. I can assure you, this is not a dance step that EVER caught on in the 80's.
But lets not just shine a light on the bad dancing, lets also take a moment and look at one of those moments in a video that makes you say WTF!!!!!?? Watch the video for Pale Shelter (one of my all-time favorites) and watch very late in the video as a paper airplane takes out Roland....perhaps the paper airplane saw him dance and just had to take action.
Mad World
Pale Shelter
Right in the face!! I didn't see much dancing going on in this video though
ReplyDeleteIt does look like he is trying to get out of an invisible box in the other video. Does go with the music though
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's where all the angst and emotion in the other videos comes from - fear of a plane to the face
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