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Originally Posted by glitter_fades
Why am I not surprised I Can't Wait is a favorite video? Jacked up Stevie is always good entertainment for the masses.
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Call me Masses! "Talk to Me" is my favorite Stevie video!
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Rooms on Fire: the best insight into Stevie of any video
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I really hate that video because it has all the faults that Stevie's music had at the time: pomposity, overblown concept, annoying "stately" gestures bordering on the static, & the star herself is all dolled up campy-trampy -- combining the freakiest aspects of the Mae West character in "Myra Breckinridge" & Joan Crawford in "Flamingo Road."
If you view Stevie as a lushly Romantic heroine, a creature of passion & windswept emotions, tormented by the buffeting winds of Fate & her own fevered imagination, then I guess the video completely captures it. If, on the other hand, you see all that as more than a little silly, then "Rooms on Fire" may just strike you as a sort of post-dated artifact of sinking pop stardom.