Originally published at: The video for "Funky Town" is as 80s as it gets | Boing Boing
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The Chroma Key is pretty solid for such an ancient bit of work.
Based on the see through nature of the one performer’s costume, I presume that this video wasn’t intended for US or UK release.
Edited for added negativity.
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That video in 720p is certainly more, ahem, ‘detailed’ than I remember while watching on a fuzz-o-matic 80’s era tv set. Lol
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Alas, this was one the first song the instructor taught us to when I was dragged to dance class as an adolescent.
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well, sledgehammer it wasn’t. but the tune still slaps.
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This is who actually sang the song.
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Ugh! I had a summer job that allowed me to have a radio. The one station that came in clearly played this about once an hour, every hour, day after day, week after week. Probably still are.
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Tits were fin in the '80’s. It’s since then we’ve (not me though) become more censorious.
Blame the Christian right. Probably.
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Director: “I swear, white people can do The Robot. Trust me!”
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I didn’t know Princess Diana sang this song!
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Not meaning to slight the song, but I think the video plays better silent.
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Obligatory Todd in the Shadows:
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That made my gums numb.
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Well, at least you can’t say that the group’s name is inaccurate.
As an aside it’s really weird to me to think this is a song from the 1980s. (Yes I realize it’s at the very tail end of disco’s popularly, but still.)
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Seems more late 70s than 80s.
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The lady lip syncing here is Debbie Jenner, who was also singer in Doris D & The Pins.
They had some hits in the Netherlands around 1981.
The one below got to number one, and is also pretty 80s
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Not everyone’s family redecorated, ripping out the carpets and re-doing the walls and replacing all the furniture, in 1982.
My memories of the '80s was of yellow bottle-bottom glass sliding doors and burnt orange and forest green and mission brown, and maybe a Patrick Nagel-style print in a particularly fashionable home.
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