LOVE SOMEBODY

I can't remember if this video came out before the movie was released or not.  I love the way they incorporate the movie scenes into the video.  I do know that if I did see the video before I had seen the movie, I would be more anxious than ever for the movie to come out, or if the movie was already out, I know if I saw the video, it would probably make me want to see the movie again.   In other words, I think this was a really good advertisement for the movie.  I love the editing room scenes, also. I like it that he's wearing the same outfit outside the movie scenes that he was wearing in one of the concert scenes in the movie. I love the part where he has the phone in his hand and he looks directly at the camera and sings a line.  However, I don't really get the whole other thing that's going on.... the island natives with the Love Goddess (Rick Springfield should not be down on his knees begging any woman for anything).  I don't find the woman in the video all that attractive either {note to self, we need to do a poll later voting on who we thought the most attractive woman Rick ever did a video with}.

This has to be one of my top two very favorite Rick Springfield videos.  My single, very profound reason .... I love the way Rick jumped and danced around like a goofball in that editing room.  I am deep.  It just looked like so much fun.  I really wanted to be there.  At one point he grabs a girl's hand and they look as if they might start dancing together for a moment.  Oh,  to be that girl.  I also really love this song, so I am sure that transfers to my feelings about the video as well. 

I did not understand or really care for the whole "island goddess" theme, it was kind of weird and as usual. The goddess was not even CLOSE to worthy of being in a Rick Springfield video.  But for some reason she never made me really want to be her even though Rick was kneeling, pleading at her feet.  Very tempting.  I still would have picked to be the dancing, editing room girl. 

One last thing, when they are all dancing about I love when Rick takes the desk lamp, shines it in his face and sings into the light.  He looked so adorable in this video and I think they did a really good job of incorporating the movie scenes without breaking the flow of the video. 

I love that video for the same reason, the dancing and jumping and acting like the goofball. Most of it looks like so much FUN!   Especially the editing room scenes. He just cuts loose and is himself. I think that explains the island goddess them or "ice princess" as I like to think of her. She's on such a pedestal looking down on him. His pleading is for her to get off of it and get real! I think it's play on the idea from the movie, Hard to Hold, of how Diane is at first - prim, proper and he's just some "bubble gum" rock star in her eyes.    Most guys would have walked away at once. But he sensed the veneer and something more precious underneath (well that and a little ego over not having Diane falling all over him at first!)

Thanks to all of you, I was doing some extensive video searching this weekend, trying to find out whether this video came out before the movie. The result I came up with is, it probably did, but I cannot pin down a date. There is an interview Rick did with Alan Hunter on MTV on which I have written March, 1984 on the tape. In this interview Rick talks about filming the movie and the soundtrack, so I am assuming the video was playing on MTV before the April 1984 movie premiere.

I think this video did capture images from the movie quite well, even though if you watch it from the viewpoint that you had not seen the movie yet, you'd have no idea what the movie was about other than Rick the rock star is playing Jamie the rock star in a movie. (which is what the critics seemed to have pointed out AFTER they saw the movie anyway.)

I also have on tape a "making of the Love Somebody" video that I have no idea what show it originally aired on, I'm thinking maybe Solid Gold. In it, the producer/director is explaining how he was on the beach in Hawaii when he got the call that he was going to direct this video for Rick.  So that is how he came up with the paradise / island theme with the witchy woman standing at the top of the mountain. I think this is the wasted part of the video...in my opinion.

The stuff of Rick in the editing room...fabulous!  They should have used more of that. I agree with the others who have posted that he just looks so scrumptious dancing around when the pandemonium ensues.   It looked like a fun time!

Coincidentally, I bought a pair of those oh-so-cool boots Rick was wearing in the movie/video. I literally wore them until they fell apart, complete with the jacket that was sold that matched the boots (and kinda looked like the vest a bit, with zippers and strips of material hanging about). My parents hated the boots & jacket and forbade me to wear them anywhere but school. See, I told you guys I was a sick puppy back then....

I  also have the same tape about the "making of the video". It aired on the American Music awards in 1984. They talked about how the glass breaking in the door was the hardest scene to shoot. The parting shot was Rick talking into the camera saying something about ..."if I am not good then we just wasted half a million bucks" or something like that. Money spent on Rick Springfield is never money wasted!!!