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This makes her Tommy James cover look like an artistic statement. One of the cheesiest Beatles covers of all time made even more by the live clip. At least she was enjoying her brief stay on top of the charts!

Moss

This video pretty much killed what was left of Billy Squier's career. Still can't fathom how he thought it was a good idea.

Janszoon

This song is so wrapped up with fond memories I have from the summer before I started high school that it's impossible for me to judge it on its own merits in any way.

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25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

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There's a whole small chapter on it in the book I Want My MTV and it's one of the saddest but most hilarious clash of stories I have read. Everything that could go wrong did. It was originally supposed to be about Billy getting ready for his concert and fans getting ready to go to the show, but...

They went to two Directors (Bob Giraldi and David Mallet) before they got to Kenny Ortega, who worked for Mallet. All I can see is that they were trying to meet an MTV deadline, Ortega was encouraging him to move around on that set that looked far brighter than what Billy reportedly wanted, and Billy wearing that pink shirt possibly not realizing how it was going to really turn out in the end. Anything you could assume but not prove might be filed in the category of "It was the American Music Industry in The Early 80's".

I'm sure that setting back the date was not going to happen, especially after Capitol spent a lot of money already, and not sending a video was possibly going to make matters worse on a professional level as I'm sure it was seriously set in stone.

In the book, Giraldi said that after seeing the video, he should have been the Director. I'm sure with the original plan.

Janszoon

I love that song too. I don't know if something that's meant to be ridiculous can really be called cheesy, but that song and video are both absurd and awesome.

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DwnWthVwls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelback_discography

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@2:28 Waterfall is clearly going backwards. I watched the whole thing again, just to see if there was any more evidence that the entire video had been shot in reverse, but sadly I couldn't. For no apparent reason, the band seems to have just wanted there to be ten seconds of subtle, backwards footage in their video.

And I'm convinced the entire reason they even made this cover was to make fun of just how stupid the lyrics are.

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