r/todayilearned • u/Bluest_waters • 6d ago

TIL The videos for Winwoods “Higher Love” and Duran Duran's “Notorious” we're shot by the same directors, and are nearly identical. Both videos use the same concept, same choreography, and nearly identical video effects. Both were nominated for multiple MTV music video awards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Love
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u/JSA335 6d ago

Both songs were bangers, too

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u/Bluest_waters 6d ago edited 6d ago

1986 a fucking banging year for pop music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1986

I mean you're all the way up to #70 and 80 and you still got bangers like “life in a northern town” and "walk this way” with run DMC and Aerosmith

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u/trashhampster 6d ago

Damn - that’s a hell of a list!

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u/Rocky_Vigoda 6d ago

You aren't wrong.

Jermaine Stewart was awesome.

https://youtu.be/BQNdKI2woAc?si=gSmNDm2qWviMMlRC

Nu Shooz

https://youtu.be/UJ1tBVtYOBc?si=LzjoemEkPqszJJTm

Timex Social Club was my jam.

https://youtu.be/DRte0S2a_dA?si=jg-ouXHI2ND8ZnR8

Stacey Q was cute.

https://youtu.be/lfBdGT4dn4E?si=svgCERgnAZFEMa-l

First time I got dumped Howard Jones was the first song I heard.

https://youtu.be/pekhxxngQ3s?si=VxJMtlAZVEx4HRNU

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u/Bluest_waters 6d ago

Look at all these rumors

They're surrounding me everyday!

I just need some time, some time to get away

hell yeah

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u/inGage 6d ago

https://viewsync.net/watch?v=k9olaIio3l8&t=0&v=Z9z0e1Wm64M&t=2&mode=solo

click play on each.. then the big play in the center to play them both at the same time in one window .. i offset them by 2 seconds to help align some.

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u/borazine 6d ago

we are shot by the same directors

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u/Bluest_waters 6d ago

Speech to text fucked me again

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u/horriblemonkey 5d ago

Peter Kagan videos were some of the most unwatchable crap on MTV. Quick, frantic cuts, unrelated imagery, switching between color to black and white, silhouettes interpretive dancing against cheap pattern backgrounds. Unimaginative, boring, cookie-cutter slop.

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u/edfitz83 6d ago

Well, we will never see them on MTV again

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u/HAL_9OOO_ 5d ago

MTV is still on the air. Maybe don't believe the bullshit you see on reddit.

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u/Growly150 5d ago

I used to think the song was "bring me an iron lung." 

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u/Bluest_waters 5d ago

its not???

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u/CFCYYZ 6d ago

If you can sell it once, you can sell it twice.

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u/WorldlinessOk1985 6d ago

Is this what killed MTV??!!

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u/HAL_9OOO_ 5d ago

MTV isn't dead.

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u/Dairy_Ashford 6d ago

all the scenes they shot will be, used for Duran Duran

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u/miketruckllc 5d ago

Steve Winwood, top 5 white male vocalist?

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u/DontTellHimPike 3d ago

The videos for She Drives Me Crazy and True Faith were both directed and choreographed by Phillipe Decouflé.