Weirde videoclip

In mijn vorige blog had ik het even over rare videoclips uit de jaren tachtig. Deze mag er ook zijn:

Hall and Oates met Adult education uit 1984.

Op https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/daryl-hall-theres-another-way-of-looking-at-the-world zegt Hall:

‘That song is about something I still believe: that one of the big problems with the world is people never grow up – no matter how old they get. And the song is a reminder that there is life after high school. That there’s another way of looking at the world, and that other world is a false world and a meaningless world.’

De clip is echter een Indiana Jones-achtig tafereel. Wat heeft het in godsnaam met het lied te maken?

Op wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Education_(song) lees ik het antwoord:

Hall later criticized the video in the book I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. “Videos began to attract wannabe Cecil B. DeMilles, directors who had almost unlimited budgets and did whatever they felt like. ‘Adult Education’ is a perfect example. We brought in a director I didn’t know [Pope], who was newly hot. He didn’t have a clue what to do with the song. The plot? I couldn’t tell you.”

De clip blijft vermakelijk – ik lig steeds in een deuk – en de muziek aanstekelijk.