(The inspiration for this post came from all that talk of lewdness and lasciviousness and being a teenager in the '80s, that triggered a whole separate train of thought all the while I was writing the original post.)
When certain folk reacted to Britney's video debut as if Sodom and Gomorrah had risen from the ashes, I knew they couldn't have been watching videos in the '80s. Because before there was Britney? There was Billy:
Rock the Cradle of Love - Billy Idol
And in the interest of equal opportunity (well, indirectly!), there was also Eddie and Dave and Alex and Michael
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
And most definitely there was Danny (hee, the one comment "this has been 'pedo bear' approved"*)
Little Girls - Oingo Boingo
(oh, and obviously that immediately brings to mind the mother (or father?) of them all and possibly the creepiest song ever:)
Maybe Britney just needed was some pointers from her [older and wiser] sisters on how to work that girl power angle differently...
...but that's a post for another time.
*If that offends you or you don't know why I am going hee, then you really don't get it...or me.
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Sadly most of my memories of lasciviousness are lost in the brimstone haze of Catholic guilt.
How I wish I had grown up Buddhist instead! Anything non-deist would have done.
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