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Thus, Robert Palmer's sultry, stone-faced "band" of Stepford supermodels sways through "Addicted to Love" while the viewer learns of the video director's goal of invoking kabuki through the choice of makeup and Palmer's love of alcohol; statistics on employment and gender alternate with Donna Summer's own career moves atop "She Works Hard for the Money"; and Sammy Hagar's moving violations and willingness to smuggle Ferraris across the Canadian border garnish "I Can't Drive 55." The tension between the well-worn video images and these pithy diversions, as well as the graphic style for the text balloons that appear, mimic computer and Internet information presentation-–it's a midi-tech evocation of interactivity, but the interaction is between the screen action and the program's writers, excluding the viewer.
As broadcast programming, Pop Up Video has been a deserved hit, not least of all for its welcome irreverence, which embraces a willingness to poke fun at the show's own MTV origins. This first long-form anthology is more problematic, however. Some exclusive new footage filtering 1980s historical events through "pop up" commentary does afford mordant context, but interviews with the show's writers, explaining how they researched each clip, ironically offer too much information: these talking head segments are redundant at best. More pointedly, the ‘80s timeframe has prompted a perverse emphasis on forgettable kitsch; nostalgia is short-lived when confronted with Night Ranger, Poison, or the Fixx, although historic clips from the Buggles and Peter Gabriel have weathered well. --Sam Sutherland
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Buy or Fall,
By B. Lovian "blovian" (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vh1: Pop Up 80's [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Great videos; the popups are a fascinating complement. "Stand or Fall" is the best gem in here. It wasn't a huge hit, but the song and video are both powerful. I only wish VH-1 would release more "pop up" collections!
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Yearning to see pop-up video,
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This review is from: Vh1: Pop Up 80's [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I've always enjoyed the few pop-up videos i've seen in the past and was delighted to see (on VH1 classics) they had 2 pop-up video lists. I watched a couple and decided I wouldn't watch them all at once so I would have something to look forward to in the following days. Then I found to my great disappointment the videos would no longer play! I then had the idea that there might be a pop-up video dvd on Amazon.com, and there was! This dvd has 11 pop-up videos on it and comments from the people that put the pop-ups on them. However, even though they say they picked the best videos, I think they picked the worst. what's with all the English videos on here? I will hope to find a way to see the many American videos I haven't seen.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
This is music or noise?,
This review is from: Vh1: Pop Up 80's [VHS] (VHS Tape)
There are pop up audio and i can't hear music :-(
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