Vacation by The Go-Go's
Sure they can play their instruments, sure they can write classic 80's tunes but who knew they could water ski in formation?
The band was coming off a huge debut album so the record company wanted to really promote the new single off their sophomore album (also called Vacation), so the record company put up $50,000 for the video (a lot back in those days). But take 5 rock stars and make them sit in a sound stage for 10 hours and they're going to get bored. So what's a bored Go-Go to do....but get drunk. Yep, towards the end of the day they were pretty much snokered. Having to pretend you're water skiing while your drunk must have been loads of fun.
But since the song was fun (well, not the lyrics, she's sad over a break up and wants to get away) and they were drunk....well, its a party.
Please enjoy the video (excuse the crappy quality and the words at the beginning of the video, there is no "official" video available from the band....probably embarrassed about how drunk they were)
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