When One Music Video Ruined a Career: Billy Squier's "Rock Me Tonite"

[@chrismaghintay]

Prancing With Ghosts

[@colt5189]

Ghosts Wear Dancing Shoes.

[@RonitPirtle]

Lol​@@colt5189

[@kobakusu]

I like these “where musicians careers went wrong” videos you’ve been making recently, they scratch the drama itch without having to rely on current news

[@DancingwithGhosts]

good point! yeah, they do feel much less "mean" than ones I end up making on modern people who are still active

[@yatsey007]

​@@DancingwithGhostsswap mean with honest bro. Certain fan sections just can't handle the truth.

[@bootsthecat6718]

Video really did kill the radio star

[@backdoorwolf666]

Early 1990's MTV. That was a time to be alive. Guns n Roses 'Estranged' video got me hooked.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i could only live it secondhand through re-runs as a pre-teen

[@ebeneezerscrooge2942]

Born in 1980. Grew up on music videos. It was dope.

[@colt5189]

I miss That Metal Show.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

ugghhh i loved TMS.. i miss it so much.. watche every episode on VH1 classic

[@OcpCommunications]

I still like the song Rock Me Tonite but that music video really sucked. I have no idea what Billy was thinking doing an impression of Richard Simmons in the video. Great job yet again. You really are on a roll and are hitting your stride.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

thanks buddy

[@DancingwithGhosts]

@@John-k6f9k yeah.... i kinda explained all that in the video if you had watched it..

[@tedharrington5432]

I watched the MTV Premiere of the video in 1984. I was 17 years old and had no idea at that time I was watching a video that would destroy Billy's career. I often wondered back then if the video was supposed to have a woman dancing around and she did not show up and they made Billy take the woman's place.

[@michellemajako]

Picturing you confused, searching for some explanation, anything to explain wtf you were seeing. I laughed out loud! I was 15, and kinda grateful I don’t remember seeing it, myself.

[@Coolremac]

I remember the early MTV years. It was much better back then.

[@indiedavecomix3882]

I loved Billy Squier's hit songs. I didn't see this video until years after it came out. I watched it and just said "Oh. That's what happened. "

[@colt5189]

Billy Squier was a one album wonder. I remember listening to "The Stroke" on the radio a lot in the 80's not being able to really hear the lyrics and imagined it was a song about vikings in a boat rowing into battle.

[@umainebearman]

1 album wonder? Say you dont know rock music without saying you dont know rock music.

[@claudiasls6912]

You clearly don't have a clue about Billy Squier's legendary and superb Rock and Roll music catalog. Billy Squier is a multi talented musician and he's a multi millionaire because of that talent❣️😎

[@lisalisa-ge4ic]

...'say you're a winner but man you're just a sinner now' best lyric ever i love him and he is moral and the stroke was about the compromised dark industry

[@RonitPirtle]

I like your reply 😁

[@RonitPirtle]

Yup I love your reply too​@@lisalisa-ge4ic

[@horrormusic1980]

I like a lot of Billy Squire's hits. I remember watching the Rock Me Tonite music video for the first time & not knowing if he was a straight man. I even asked my mom & she told me she thought he was married to a woman but we were confused after seeing the video. I think a lot of people must have been confused by the way it was made just as I was. Not that it matters. I still enjoy the song but my first thought was just "What is this?" I had no idea it derailed his career but that makes sense for that period of time back in the 1980s.

[@claudiasls6912]

Billy Squier is a multi talented musician and a hero for people who enjoy LISTENING to quality rock MUSIC. Turn off the video and just listen instead. Everyone makes mistakes. It's Billy Squier's music catalog that really matters to his legions of devoted fans.❤🎉🎧😎

[@EHiggins]

I think people at the time had regrets about screaming "Stroke me, Stroke me, Stoke, Stroke", after seeing his newer video.

[@umainebearman]

Well you think wrong.

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

That song is about dealing with the music industry

[@mootbooxle]

hahaha the Trick of the Tail video was the first image that popped into my head when you said “quaint” pre-MTV music videos and POOF there it was! A man of taste 👏

[@jayemgee549]

Growing up watching tons of VH1 Behind the Music and 120 minutes, I really appreciate these videos.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i think i've seen every VH1 behind the music.. was the first show that turned me on to documentaries

[@jayemgee549]

@@DancingwithGhosts Same here. I'd binge those. I still remember the Poison episode where they talk about kicking Richie Kotzen out of the band after sleeping with Rikki Rocket's girlfriend. And also the Creed episode which was created during their peak. I remember thinking to myself that they should've waited 5-10 years because there will be gold to mine. I had no idea how right I was.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

@@jayemgee549 yep! both of those were classics.. i also seem to remember the Notorious BIG one a lot too

[@lyrabelacqua4120]

When you realize Kenny Ortega went on to create hits like the High School Musical film trilogy, The Cheetah Girls 2, and the first three Descendants movies. What a great choice for a hard rock music video!

[@MintyFreshTurds]

Billy tried to put all the blame on the director for this, but he knew and saw exactly what he was presenting to a camera and went through with it.

[@terrencereardon6374]

He should have done what Springsteen and Stevie Nicks did, cancel the video and reshoot with a new director. Springsteen shot a video for Dancing In the Dark not different to Rock Me Tonite with Bruce wearing all black dancing with a black backdrop, he hated it. Fired the director and reshot it as a live clip in St Paul Minnesota with Brian DePalma (movie director) and a pre-Friends Courtney Cox as the lucky girl dancing at the end with Bruce. Video cemented Bruce as a phenomenon. Stevie Nicks made a video for Stand Back ala Gone With the Wind, she hated what came out and yanked the video. She re-shot it with another director Jeff Hornaday and depicted her singing in a black room interspersed with dancers, her on a treadmill and dancing with a man in slow motion. Mercifully that was kept. I also believe if Styx released Don't Let it End first on Kilroy there would have been no controversy with Kilroy. Roboto angered many Styx fans and Kilroy sales stalled. Plus Tommy Shaw quitting didn't help.

[@robertpolnicky7702]

​@@terrencereardon6374if there was anything about it at all that wasn't himself. Or what he wanted.

[@whoami7721]

Your explanation of what MTV was made me feel so old. I remember it well, even though I was a little kid. I also remember my older teenaged brother's outrage and shock at this video. The context that you put it in was so on point. The rock audience was very macho forty years ago. This is the type of music for guys to blast out of their IROC-Z Camaro on a Friday night. They wore white "wife beater" tank tops, not pink ones.

[@michellemajako]

You forgot the mullet. It’s ok, though, we aren’t spring chickens 😂

[@DanTesta58]

Billy went full Pickle Whistler and got cancelled. Today he would hailed as a hero and anyone daring to critique his prance fest would be cancelled. Strange times.

[@CarSVernon]

pretty sure it's more strange to have someone's career end over one single music video

[@Wayner71]

When I first saw a video of Billy Squier it wasn't "Rock Me Tonite". It was concert footage him singing and dancing. I took note of his strange wide-hipped, stomping dance style. I thought it looked a bit effete and clumsy. The video that took him down highlighted this strange dancing style to the max. He would have been better off minimizing the dancing and maximizing the singing. Cheers.

[@jayemgee549]

Gay or straight, it's difficult take a silly prancing man serious. That's something anyone with an ounce of self awareness would've realized.

[@BSzili]

The whole thing comes off as a caricature that appeals to no one.

[@daviddamelio1671]

He looks like the dinosaur with the tiny arms.

[@krogdog]

A similar situation came up with Sisqo and his video for _Unleash the Dragon_ back in 2000. They had him dance-fighting this really cheesy looking 100 foot dragon in downtown LA and when his record label saw the finished product they never released it fearing it would end his career.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

ahh damn now i wanna see it.. it's gotta be out there somewhere

[@krogdog]

@@DancingwithGhosts Of course, it's here on YT

[@brandonmclean58]

I always thought all 80s rock music videos were kinda gay

[@robertpolnicky7702]

Look at Freddy Mercury with his shirt off. No one complained on that.

[@thechestershow2112]

Great video! Now I want to listen to Loney is the night. I remember listening to that all the time in GTA5. Loney is the night, when you find yourself alone! funny and true!

[@Kaoruishere]

From the descriptions I first thought "But what's the deal? Wasn't Prince doing these flamboyant videos around the same time? And look where those got them!", but then I saw the clips. It's impossible to take him seriously in them.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah.. i mean 10/10 if it was a troll.. but it wasn't...

[@brandonmcleod9182]

Great video lol! I was only 1 when this came out and don't remember ever seeing this one on MTV. Nice job!

[@tcrane8630]

Very well done content and your observations are so accurate of the time...and people forget...that was that time... well done

[@cdjxman]

Great one, Joshua!🤩👍

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

It's a very good point about video not matching the sound of certain performers. Once upon a time, music you liked would make a movie play in your head. Then MTV said, "No ... some producer should be showing you what to think while you listen to this song." I never liked MTV, but I certainly understand why it stopped showing music videos.

[@daweller]

So why did Jagger get a pass for Dancing in the Streets?

[@robertpolnicky7702]

And that waiting on a friend thing.

[@robertpolnicky7702]

You might be getting to part of his problem. Jagger had a better rappoire with his fans. It's like you knew him. Where squire was awfully oblivious. He didn't connect. A d j called him arrogant. I noticed that at his Wichita concert. Probably part of his problem.

[@daweller]

@@robertpolnicky7702 I think Squire's fans were more blue collar,

[@christinamussared2285]

I grew up in the road rules era of MTV. I was in my late teens by the time they started TRL.

[@alexhickenbottom2820]

MTV is the new Jerry Springer even when he was alive I swear MTV producers watched him and many other daytime drama talk shows and said “ Genius! That’s it!” I love Billy Squier and it’s sad what happened to him he collaborated with queen on one of his albums. I saw a video on KZbin where he visited a school in New York I believe and he taught every student playing one of his songs how to play their instrument in his song, that’s talent.

[@elimgarak4667]

I'm really happy I found your channel through the Cinemassacre bullshit, it's kinda amazing for me as well. I've been playing and practicing music since I was 9. So I'm becoming a huger fan because of the musical content you put out. It's really kind of cool.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

that's awesome, i'm so grateful to the cinemassacre people who stayed for my other stuff

[@elimgarak4667]

Happy to be here bud :)@@DancingwithGhosts

[@realmchat6665]

Squire's mouth noises in the trunk interview were over the top.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah not gonna lie man .. those mouth noises really bothered me as well.. perhaps you have OCD or are on the spectrum? I, for one, am married to OCD until my dying day unfortunately...

[@mootbooxle]

yeah…AuDHD’er here and mouth noises reaaally bother me. I can’t even stand to hear myself eat in a quiet room.

[@Skycladatdusk78]

I like all of Billy's music, too bad a silly video ruined his career, he made some good stuff post 1984 but nearly all of it went unnoticed.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i always wondered if he had some more hidden gems in there that weren't played on the radio after this video

[@RustyNickels]

That kind of dancing only works for The Psychedelic Furs.

[@jacksampsonforever]

EVERYONE needs to be made aware of this montrosity of a music video. Every man, woman and child. Thank you for showing it to the next generation. Is THIS the kind of dancing you do with ghosts?

[@claudiasls6912]

EVERYONE needs to be made aware of how Billy Squier is a multi talented musician and a multi millionaire because of his fantastic music catalog❣️😎🎧

[@romaneberle]

i have a feeling the Tom Cruise reference might be very accurate. remember the dance scene in "Risky Business" (1983)? when i saw the music video, i immediately thought roughly what Billy Squier is describing in the interview (rock fan rocking out at home). it seems it went into the wrong direction indeed, they chose the Tom Cruise type of audience, when it should've been something along the lines of Twisted Sister's "I wanna rock". (or, well, as Billy says in the interview, at least the Richard Gere type of audience. ;-) )

[@akor45]

I always wondered what happened to Billy Squire but as he was before my time I really never looked into it. I like this peek into the funky, funny, strange, and failed parts of music that slipped under my radar. I also like "Weird Movies with Mark', and this feels like the music version of that, which rocks. Also, I'm not sure how I missed that you yourself made music but I did. 'Faded Neon' is pretty rad. I remember one of your videos you mentioned that making videos are a bit of a pain in the ass. Your work is appreciated, thank you.

[@CouchCoop128]

Wait what, There was a Chorographer 🤣jesus

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yes even the most Napoleon Dynamite of dances needs to be choreographed believe it or not

[@chrisb7528]

Do Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood.So many people at the time didn't know they were listening to a song about greek intercourse but it was obvious.

[@RedDogRichard2112]

Todd in the shadows just made a video on that song.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah todd in the shadows has already treaded that path

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

​@@DancingwithGhostsHow about peeking into Trevor Horn's producing career? Relax is one of many great songs he added his touch to

[@YuzoKoshiroSan]

Great video, but damn, I have to say I just love your Mega Man ironing beads. And because you can speak german as well: Tolles Video, aber verdammt, ich muss einfach sagen dass ich deine Mega Man-Aufsteller aus Bügelperlen liebe.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

Also! Vielen Dank!

[@peacefuljeffrey]

What about “Dancing in the Streets”? Was that too directed by this flit Kenny Ortega? The funny thing is that Billy Squier was dancing in this video just like David Bowie and Freddie Mercury routinely did.

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

The moment when Jersey Shore infested MTV😂 SRSLY I loved the time of MTV with their musicclips and the whole artistic way. Even if I think of Soundgardens Black Hole Sun, Metallicas One etc🤔

[@IvanFlavin]

Did you get the idea for your avatar from that album cover?

[@DancingwithGhosts]

nope

[@michellemajako]

His target audience wasn’t the same as Culture Club. As one of them, I don’t remember even seeing this video, and I don’t think most of us would hold it against him long term. Most bands from this time fizzled out when we all got old and cranky anyway.

[@stevencharron3866]

I love Squier. I always remember people speaking on this busting my balls. I never cared. Song is awesome. I'm 34 y/o. Loved Squier since a kid. Who cares. Squier is a gangster.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

he's got an amazing rock voice

[@Strathaczar]

I'm of this era. I was born in 1979, and Billy Squier was one of my dad's favorite rock bands. I used to hear "The Stroke" and "Lonely is the Night" all the time on the weekends coming from the turntable. I remember this video showing up, and disappearing almost as quickly as it was shown, and distinctly remember not hearing much from him again afterwords. When I was near 20 or maybe a bit after that, when VH1 did those "I Love The 80s" videos, or did any retrospective on stuff like this, I remember distinctly hearing this story in one of the episodes. I was actually kinda floored at the time, because I was like 5 when "Rock Me Tonight" came out, so I didn't have context and didn't understand the outrage. I just didn't understand the time period. In the 80s, AIDS was a "homosexual disease" and was treated as such, so anything appearing even remotely in that light took a beating. I just didn't get it, because I was a kid. As for the video, it's a nothingburger compared to some of the stuff that came out or was out. I mean Culture Club was HIGHLY, and OPENLY playing with those themes, but they weren't Rock and Roll. Not even a year later, Mick Jagger and David Bowie would release "Dancing in the Streets" which was a video of 2 guys dancing with themselves, sometimes nearly face to face, and it received zero backlash until much later. Probably because it was Bowie and Jagger. It's a corny, terrible video, but I don't remember very many that WEREN'T terrible in the early, to mid 80s. They were all way too new, and no one had a clue, other than Michael Jackson, what needed to be done. I never got the backlash.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah poor billy... although someone commented on here saying the stuff he did after that album wasn't very good to begin with but the video definitely turned a lot of his hard rock dude fans off. God that Jagger/Bowie video was so much worse because at least the Squier video had a good song behind it.

[@Strathaczar]

@@DancingwithGhosts, I will say his stuff past 1984 wasn't very good. It definitely could have been significantly better. But I also believe he probably didn't get many chances to make mistakes. He was probably on a pretty short leash after this video, and most of us don't do well under the kind of pressure the record company could have probably put on him. It was a mess, honestly, and unfairly so. Dude made a terrible music video in 1984. Some of my favorite music videos of the early 80s are some of the most ridiculous things you'll ever see that are completely off the wall and make no sense. But, again, I was like 5 and didn't understand the context. Just seems pretty shitty when Jagger and Bowie were a couple dance moves from a strip tease less than a year later and got no issues from it. It pays to be at the top of the mountain, I guess.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

@@Strathaczar i remember being 5 and my family had taped Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' and I was absolutely obsessed

[@Strathaczar]

@@DancingwithGhosts one of the absolute best videos EVER! I was 6 or 7 when it came out, and watched it EVERY chance I got. Didn't have a clue what it meant until I was like 13. Pretty amazing it made it passed the censors!

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@Strathaczar also by 1986 early 80s artists were left in the dust by new hair meta bands bands and artists like styx foreigner journey reo speedwagon billy squier didnt fit in with that scene and were considered old news by 87-88. billy had a minor comeback in 1989 with song called dont say you love me the video actually got decent rotation on mtv and his album hear and now went gold but his days of platinum albums and playing arenas were over

[@John-k6f9k]

I live in the UK and I remember when Queens I Want To Break Free video came out People thought it was funny. It was done in the spirit of Monty Python and their dressing up as women. I've seen Rock Me Tonite and I thought it was pretty tame in comparison. It wasn't even Billy's idea. It was the video directors idea, and Billy foolishly went along with it. A bad decision, but hindsight is 20/ 20 as they say. Poor Billy, I guess some people are just too uptight and value their machismo too much!

[@kathleenkishkabibbles2759]

I stumbled upon that Billy Squier video and I laughed so hard and shared it. I don't remember it from the 80s but OMG it's hilarious. And I like the song and all his songs

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah he's a hell of a singer.. not so much a dancer

[@ryanjacobson2508]

Billy's video concept was that it was about getting ready to go to a rock concert (it is called rock me tonite!) and he showed up to the set and was immediately concerned about the satin sheets and pastels... Then the director basically "coached" him thru the choreography. Billy hated everything about it but his manager and label pressured him into airing the video because they felt it would market the song. After the video aired, attendance at his shows declined and he pulled the video. But the damage was done.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah all of that is more or less covered in the interview i play at the end of this video

[@bb-gc2tx]

billy actually put tickets on sale before the video debuted and the shows sold out then the video came out the backlash was so bad that he was playing half empty arenas even though the shows were technically sold out. so people actually paid for tickets and didnt go to the shows all because of the video crazy

[@aquatarkus2022]

I remember once reading it was meant to be a parody of Flashdance. It's hard to believe it wasn't a deliberate statement by Billy.

[@LeevitDeBeeva]

I was a little kid when this video came out. Between Billy Squier and Hulk Hogan, none of my T-Shirts stood a chance

[@DoubleAAmazin]

The majority of people still frown on this type of behavior to this very day. It's the lunatic fringe who tolerate such abnormalities.

[@xtraflo]

Honestly, I grew up with MTV in the 80s and 90s and the Video wasn't as interesting as the Song for me or any of my friends. I mean, Nirvana's music videos were not huge works of art nor were Metallica and they launched Rock the 90s. On the other hand, Madonna back then had David Fincher as a Director and I could give a Fuck about what she was singing about. It was cool if the Song had a decent video but I disagree that the Video would Break a band if it didn't hold up. Also - if people thought a Video was considered "Gay" and that killed Record sales then, that was something else. Not because the video style was bad.

[@mattykay]

Never really paid much attention to his vids, his album In The Dark is a classic

[@DancingwithGhosts]

That album is called "Don't Say No", not 'In the Dark'

[@mattykay]

Oops

[@jasonvoigt]

Billy Squier's music is cool when I'm in a classic rock mood but yes the video did kill his career. He coulda been a bigger and better rock legend like say, Springsteen, or he could have been the next Loverboy. We'll never know

[@brockmckraken]

I think the biggest difference was he didn't know what to do with his arms.. since there was no guitar to occupy his upper body. Odd hearing him blame his team for not pulling the video before its release, as if he had no say in the matter. When he saw it, was he totally oblivious to the bizarre prancing arm movements? Just one of the weirdest displays of "rocking"

[@sunshinecoolwater9528]

Nice green hair you got there, but I'm suspecting you are taking this topic on the wrong angle, my guy.

[@Anon.y.mous1503]

I lived through this nightmare in 1984. We all loved his music, but his audience was very hetero and everything that goes along with that. You have to realize we didn't even know Freddie Mercury was gay, it wasn't at the forefront of culture like it is now. We stopped buying Billy Squire albums after that video, not so much because he looked "gay" but because he looked like a dork dancing around his pastel bedroom. We want our rock heroes to be cool.

[@venus_envy]

He actually collaborated with Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor (and opened for Queen on tour) before this song came out. Oh well.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

oh.. thought i read it was after, oops

[@keithmichael112]

This dude wants his berries and cream

[@tasha7726]

I remember being a little kid in the 80's and seeing this video for the first time. It might have been my first experience with second hand embarrassment 😅

[@DancingwithGhosts]

😂

[@Dorameteam]

I remember in high school driving in the parking lot blasting "In the dark" by Billy and my friends brother coming over laughing at me saying that I liked "gay music". I had no idea what he was talking about since I didn't see the "Rock me tonight" video. The video is cringe I'll admit, but it doesn't matter what an artist does on his personal life. 80's mentality, this video did kill a majority of his fan base.

[@Chevelle_5150]

This video didn't ruin Billy's career , it just had an effect on it, Billy still remained and is successful, he owns the rights to his own publishing, and owns property in Manhattan and east bridge Hampton.

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

The song kicks though

[@citizenstranger]

i'm wondering if the director told him to imagine he was a teenage girl dancing to his song in her room and thats what came out.

[@ricksenske8787]

You keep saying the 80's were "Macho" and "Masculine" all the while bands were wearing make-up, lipstick and skin-tight pants. I remember seeing the the album "Look what the Cat Dragged In" in 1986 at the navy exchange and thinking "those are some really ugly girls".

[@mikeeee4444]

Love Billy Squire. Saying that, yes this is a horrible music video. Worst though? I think that honor MUST go to "Dancing in the street!" The abortion that was done by David Bowie and Mick Jagger. I'm sorry, if that didn't ruin either one of their careers, then Billy didn't deserve it either!!

[@joshtoten]

He'd be considered an icon if this had been released in the 2000s instead. Oh, how the times change.

[@richardjared960]

In the 2020’s*

[@DancingwithGhosts]

@@richardjared960even in the 2000's his ass would have gotten roasted for this one... 2020 it would be considered empowering and brave

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

If this music video was made in early KZbin. It would reach meme status in the same way that what in the butt did.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

yeah most likely

[@mattdylan664]

it wasn't the video it was the fact everything he did after Don't Say No was mediocre at best which is a shame because that album was all killer no filler

[@mathmusicstructure]

That video would never be cool, no matter what year it is. He can't dance and that's all that happens in the video. You make the same exact video but let Chris Brown dance however he wants and lip sync and it would be amazing.

[@TJR-ClassicRockCorner0124]

Do you think Mr Roboto killed Styx?

[@DancingwithGhosts]

maybe on a commercial level but I really liked the concept, it was quirky and I think Dennis DeYoung is a very talented singer/writer

[@TJR-ClassicRockCorner0124]

@@DancingwithGhosts I would like to see a video on Kilroy killing Styx. Tommy Shaw quit the band and believes Roboto ruined the band's image and he quit the band midway through the tour and made a solo album.

[@TJR-ClassicRockCorner0124]

@@DancingwithGhostsTommy Shaw has stated that he couldn’t write songs about robots and JY called Kilroy Styx’s Heavens Gate.

[@jasonlee8497]

Billy Squier was indeed a badass…..until……cocaine…..

[@RonitPirtle]

I thought it was cringy for Billy Squire.

[@workingshlub8861]

still alot of hits..squire rocks

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i agree!

[@southpawtx]

This is kind of like how i started hating donald trump when i saw him try to dance.

[@jigglyboo8787]

why are we tip toeing around it, the video was gay as hell

[@debonaire_nerd]

MTV for music...don't be stupid. Everyone knows MTV stands for Menopausal TV

[@kyliepollert8341]

I like the song, but yeah, the video's a little out there.

[@DancingwithGhosts]

i also indeed like the song.. that poor guy should have trusted his instincts with the video

[@PCFROMVCS]

Reminds me of a Ninja Sex Party video lol

[@DancingwithGhosts]

only this was unironic 😬

[@lefteyereport6354]

Showing a clip of trick of the tail is the least fair example you could pull lol

[@DancingwithGhosts]

hey man... this video needed to get out ok? 😂

[@chicagotransitauthority3161]

Ah yes, the music video that made me hate music videos, thank you Billy Squier. Love your music, but you’re a goofball

[@DancingwithGhosts]

hell... if were about to show me a music video but prefaced it with ''it's from the mid 80's'', i would assume there's a 9/10 chance it's going to be garbage

[@velour_fogg1648]

Hey man do a video on led zeppelin the zong remains the same

[@nunyabizness3866]

It was a better time.

[@DetriotDown]

WOW... No kids that I knew. Wanted to do that.... And we used to listen to you.. But then this came out.... You embarrassed yourself and you embarrassed us... You think you knew us by prancing around.. 😅

[@stevencharron3866]

Reagan era.

[@PrisonMike-]

Billy Squier=Billys Queer

[@SPQR101010]

worst music video in history! going to wash my eyes with bleach now.

[@laserenforcer1317]

Great song. Awful music video.

[@KCroyales3]

I dunno, I think he looks cool

[@MikeTrujillo-fd2fn]

Gay dancing was not accepted back then? 🙄

[@SalvatoreTurieo]

There were worse, trust me.