Stevie's Videos: The Good, The Bad, The WTF?!?

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

BEST VIDEO: "If Anyone Falls"

BEST DIRECTION: "Every Day"

BEST EDITING: "Rooms On Fire"

(Adding my own here: )
WORST EDITING: "If You Ever Did Believe" -- for the continuity gaffes.

PRETTIEST VIDEO: "If Anyone Falls"

WORST VIDEO: "Whole Lotta Trouble"

WTF MOMENT: Every one of the "story" scenes in "Edge Of Seventeen."

BEST DANCING: "Stand Back"

WORST DANCING: Stevie & Lori's little arm-in-arm dance at the beginning of "WLT."

BEST TWIRL: "Stand Back"

THAT? WAS TACKY: The aforementioned Stevie/Lori dance.

OSCAR WORTHY ACTING: "Rooms On Fire"

(Adding my own here: )
RAZZY WORTHY ACTING: "Edge Of Seventeen"... of course, Stevie still exhibited more range than Pia Zadora, and SHE won an Oscar!

BEST DUET VIDEO: "Insider"

BEST WARDROBE: "Every Day"

WORST WARDROBE: "Blue Denim"

BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP: "If Anyone Falls"

WORST HAIR AND MAKE-UP: "Blue Denim"

BEST LIGHTING: "Sorcerer"

WORST LIGHTING: "Sometimes It's A Bitch"

BEST MIC SCENE: "I Can't Wait"

SINGLE THAT SHOULD HAVE HAD A VIDEO: "Planets Of The Universe"

SHOULD HAVE HAD A FAMOUS ACTOR: I think Stevie should have been paired with Dennis Quaid in "Rooms On Fire."

Pia Zadora won an oscar??? For what? [guess I could go find it myself... but that is stunning and explains why she got any press at all]

[Mad4stevie]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

The moment that stands out for me is the treadmill in Stand Back. Gotta Love that!

That, for me, is the WTF moment. How do you explain that cheese?

[LeighB04]

WHERE'S THE DVD???? I've also only seen a couple of her vids, and now that I've read all these comments, I wanna see them all!!!! Hopefully she won enough money gambling in Vegas, she'll consider being good to us fans.... hmmm, but that's not really her style is it??? She really does believe in "going her own way" and not paying close attention to her fans and what we demand of her....

[Mad4stevie]

Originally Posted by lagringader&r

Ditto for me. I'm wondering how everyone has seen all of her videos?

You should check into getting the "I Can't Wait" video collection - I bought mine on ebay, I think. It provides, like, 6 of her videos.

Many are also available for download on various sites, too.

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by Nightbirdjel

Because I'm SO DAMNED OLD, that's how! I'm so old I can remember life BEFORE MTV existed. When MTV was invented, I was glued to it for the first 5 years. Believe it or not they used to JUST PLAY VIDEOS. I used to say it was just like the radio, only you could SEE it. So I got to see all of Stevie's videos brand-new as they first came out. I even saw the "world premiere" of I Can't Wait. *SIGH* I miss the old days. (*shakes cane at the whippersnappers*)

MTV was very cool when it first started... I remember it too... The little moon man and all. And it was exactly like listening to the radio, except watching it... nicely put. Were'nt they on a 12 hour cycle or 6 hour cycle in the beginning... so every 6 or 12 hours it repeaded itself until the next day (maybe it's still the same..I don't know). Cause I remember being able to time it to catch the vids I wanted to see again that same day or night.

[LeighB04]

Downloading just tends to give my computer viruses that I can't shake, so not doing that anymore.
I do have the I can't Wait collection, but it would be really nice to have them all! (I'm not greedy, really!)

[Rhiannonstar84]

Originally Posted by skcin

BEST DUET VIDEO: Insider all the way. So simple & beautiful

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I totally agree with you on that. The ending especially. There is so much going on with their emotions in those last few moments. Very subtle, but nonetheless very present. (If this can make sense.) Tom really looks vulnerable at the end of this video. It's like he was caught with his gaurd down or something.

I just rewatched it, and I kept thinking about the recent interview with Tom about how at first he and the Heartbreakers didn't know how to deal with Stevie when she approached him about writing her a song. They were sort of 'wary' of her but it only took a little while for them to realize how wonderful Stevie was and da da: he wrote her insider.

This video is so mellow and truthful. Excuse my actor training on this one, but Stevie and Tom don't make this video about performing for an audience, rather it's about the music, the moment and the truth of that moment. Tom said he and Stevie would always get together to sing and create harmonies and this video must have been what it was like when they did. That's why I love it so much.

~Tara

[pberry]

BEST VIDEO: "I Can't Wait" over the top and fun

BEST DIRECTION: "I Can't Wait" (like when she breaks down the wall)

BEST EDITING: "I Can't Wait"

PRETTIEST VIDEO: "If Anyone Falls" and "If You Ever Did Believe" (gaffes and all)

WORST VIDEO: "Edge of Seventeen"

WTF MOMENT:the movie theater scene of "If Anyone Falls"

BEST DANCING: "Stand Back"

WORST DANCING: agree with earlier post: Stevie & Lori's little arm-in-arm dance at the beginning of "WLT."

BEST TWIRL: "Stand Back"

THAT? WAS TACKY: "Rooms on Fire" feels a bit tacky to me.

OSCAR WORTHY ACTING: Civil War Stand Back

BEST DUET VIDEO: SDMHA

BEST WARDROBE: "Every Day" (also hate the song)

WORST WARDROBE: "Blue Denim"

BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP: "If Anyone Falls"

WORST HAIR AND MAKE-UP: "Blue Denim"

BEST LIGHTING: "If Anyone Falls"

WORST LIGHTING: "Sometimes It's A Bitch"

BEST MIC SCENE: "Stand Back" Like a Willow I Can Sing Without A MIC

SINGLE THAT SHOULD HAVE HAD A VIDEO: "Planets Of The Universe" and "Fall from Grace"

SHOULD HAVE HAD A FAMOUS ACTOR: None

[sparky]

Originally Posted by David

Call me Masses! "Talk to Me" is my favorite Stevie video!
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.

Sheer genius.

[glitter_fades]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

So, I have no clue why Mick is dressed like a monk

Low budget.

They didn't bother with a costume change. IAF was made the same day as Mick's video for IWYB. His costume is part of the medieval storyline and Stevie is wearing her same outfit at the end of that one, too.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by amber

Hey, Johnny - you didn't answer me. Again.

Sorry, Amber. I was at work, and was just killing time when I posted my replies, and then we got busy again before I could come back to reply to yours.
(Of course, you'll probably scold me for replying to Curtis and David first. )

Originally Posted by amber

Wait - are you talking about that moment when the guy is shaking her, and doll falls, and then the part where she stares at him? Where it seems like the stare is supposed to have some kind of meaning, but really Stevie just looks blankely staring? Every time I see that I'm like "ooo, nice Stevie, really, very dramatic. "

That part and all of the other "storyline" parts.
The blank stare always reminds me of Julia Duffy's character on 'Wizards And Warriors,' who said that her mother, the queen, taught her to never make any facial gestures that could cause wrinkles.

[amber]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Sorry, Amber. I was at work, and was just killing time when I posted my replies, and then we got busy again before I could come back to reply to yours.
(Of course, you'll probably scold me for replying to Curtis and David first. )
That part and all of the other "storyline" parts.
The blank stare always reminds me of Julia Duffy's character on 'Wizards And Warriors,' who said that her mother, the queen, taught her to never make any facial gestures that could cause wrinkles.

Oh. I can't remember the other really Razzie parts, that one always just strikes me. It makes me laugh when I hear that one quote that some guy, the Gypsy video director, maybe? said she should be an actress. No. Not at all. I love Stevie, but a good actress she's not.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by MacMan

Pia Zadora won an oscar??? For what? [guess I could go find it myself... but that is stunning and explains why she got any press at all]

It was actually a Golden Globe that she won.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by glitter_fades

Low budget.

They didn't bother with a costume change. IAF was made the same day as Mick's video for IWYB. His costume is part of the medieval storyline and Stevie is wearing her same outfit at the end of that one, too.

I meant in regards to the context of the video itself... if any "meaning" was intentioned.

[krrrby]

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.

Rooms on Fire: the best insight into Stevie of any video except Stand Back Civil War Version. It's almost a sequel to it. The ending sure is cheesy. Seems that part had a message Stevie wanted to convey, so I don't know how they could have changed it unless the costuming was redone to reflect a different era. A famous dude in that video would have been cool, but Stevie was close to being washed up then, so I don't think they could have gotten anyone good, unless the real life subject stepped up to the plate just for old times sake.

No way that was gonna happen at that time. Noooooo way.

It would have been better if Lindsay came out of the mirror....HAH that would have made some ppl start talkin