Was the video for the Billy Squier song "Rock Me Tonite" really THAT bad?

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First thing, it was Billy Squire. Who even remembers much more than that one line of the song, let alone the video 🙂
 
Wow, I never heard of the song before, so I looked up the video on Youtube. That was pure, unadulterated garbage! 😆
 
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In the 1980s, a bad music video could ruin a good song Popular Media
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Never seen the music video before. Got through 30 seconds of it. Yes, it’s that bad.
 
It was the 80’s. Almost everything in the 80’s was bad-there was no other choice: bad…and worse.
 
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Ok, some of the music was good, I’ll give you that. There was Bruce, and Blondie, and Robert Palmer, a handfull of others. But remember, there was also disco, at least early in the decade, and that was pure evil. And that, by itself, makes the 80’s best to forget-and almost impossible to forget at the same time-like a trip to hell.
 
I don’t like most music videos and tend to avoid them – I’d rather appreciate the music without the usually incongruous video imagery – but I didn’t mind that one too much. Yeah, the set and choreography had nothing whatsoever to do with the song, and weren’t particularly good, but in my opinion they weren’t particularly bad either. Not disappointing. Definitely worth the price of admission.
 
Billy Squier was promoted as the new Robert Plant in 1980. I saw him during the Foreigner 4 tour as the warm up band. “In The Dark” was just released, a very good album imho. He put on a good show, but definitely not a Robert Plant.

His next efforts were mediocre.

“In through the out Door” was one of my favorite albums that year, too bad John Bonham died, Zeppelin was one of the few concerts I didn’t get to see. Though I did get to see Plant the next summer, great show.

Peace and God Bless
Nicene
 
I’ve lived almost 50 years never having heard of Billy Squire.

I’m approaching that period in life where I say, “Can you please keep it down?”
 
I learned like last year that it wasn’t Led Zeppelin. Style sampling* at its best.

*A music industry metaphor for copying, imitating, emulating, i.e. stealing.
 
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What?! No such comparison is possible. Billy Squier is to Led Zeppelin as Kool-Aid is to fine wine. And Robert Plant can do a mighty fine whine!
 
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