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Video killed the radio hits, Woefully memorable '80s videos
There are some lyrics we never needed to see acted out.
1982: “Heart Attack” by Olivia Newton-John
Earlier in the year, ONJ had great success with “Physical,” which she insisted was about physical fitness and not s-e-x, thank you.
It stands to reason that the same pure as snow Sandy Dumbrowski from Grease didn’t read any sexual connotations in “Heart Attack” either and took this as a serious look at coronary care.
Here she’s having a cardiac arrest, inducing a bad dream where a little girl traps her in a giant bird cage, and a dressed-in-black Olivia leads virgin-in-white Olivia off a cliff.
In other words, it’s just like Grease if you swap out the little girl for Danny Zuko and the cliff for The Shake Shack.
Two years into MTV, and the budgets for music videos are still minuscule. This set looks like someone was trying to recreate Superman’s Fortress of Solitude using Christmas tinsel and ripped-up dry cleaner bags. And lightning bolts that look like they were lifted from an Ultra Brite commercial. With Advanced Whitening, of course.
By Serene Dominic
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