Remember the early ’90s?
When there were still music videos?
And they were often set in factories that had lots of random gears and/or steam?
When backup dancers wore power suits without shirts and bike shorts with knee pads?
And ladies who resembled supermodels and/or RuPaul would sing the hook with people waving their arms behind her, as though she was some kind of crazy Hindu goddess of dance-pop?
When music video directors were probably big fans of Do The Right Thing and In Living Color?
And then everything suddenly had these wacky fonts and colors so basically THE WHOLE WORLD LOOKED LIKE A TACO BELL AD OR A NOTE SOMEONE PASSED TO YOU IN MATH CLASS AFTER THEY TOOK A BOOK ON LETTERING OUT FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY?
No? Well, friends, turn on your battery-operated “dancing flowers” and let C + C Music Factory remind you.
A conversation at work today reminded me of this song and directed me back to this seminal music video. The video is like a combination of “Straight Up Now Tell Me” and “Love Would Never Do Without You” and the song lyrics describe every Maury Povich episode you’ve ever seen.
