https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcTGDBJUt8
2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Mick Jagger's first solo album She's the Boss (it came out in February 1985, close enough). Most of it sucked except for the third single, "Hard Woman," which was remarkable not only because it was a good tune but because it had a stunning video that was probably one of the first, if not the first, to use computer animation. Thanks to my girlfriend putting this track on the mp3 player she gave me for Christmas, I've rediscovered it again. From today's perspective, the characters' movement is pretty stilted, but it's still pretty neat artistically. It's cool when the woman climbs up the guitar neck stairsteps, and the end sequence where Jagger jumps out of the window and runs is probably the precursor to all the CGI that's become commonplace in blockbuster movies today. (And all that neon outlining is so 1985, just check out the vid for Power Station's "Some Like It Hot" from earlier that year.) This video was a pretty big deal when it was released. Although it didn't do anything for the song that failed to chart, I remember seeing a TV documentary in the late '80s about how computer animation was the wave of the future that quoted extensively from this video. "Hard Woman" hit the airwaves in mid-1985, around the same time as Dire Straits' iconic computer-animated "Money For Nothing" video which made more of an impression on MTV viewers and record buyers, sending that song and its accompanying album to #1. Maybe people preferred looking at scraggly blue-collars placing their co-workers' heads in microwave ovens more than seeing millionaire Mick's facial features get re-arranged - who knows? Here's "Hard Woman":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcTGDBJUt8
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