Here are Billboard's picks of the 40 greatest music videos from 1981, ranked.
in 2014. “I remember the idea of the slapping, because I felt like there was a lot of that in Bette Davis films, so I just stylized that.” – A near-impossible task to match a left-field synth-pop single like “O Superman” with a video as graceful, elegiac and disquieting as the song itself, but New York performance artist Laurie Anderson was more than up to the task.
this edit of the “Girls on Film” video, a club hit, as “perhaps the most controversial rock promo video of 1981.” Directed by ex-10cc members Kevin Godley and Lol Crème, the risqué clip is admittedly too hot for TV: It features female nudity, hints of voyeurism, nearly naked mud wrestling, and winking sexual references, such as women straddling a pole covered in shaving cream.
Although the titillation can occasionally come off as gratuitous, the video certainly helped Duran Duran gain a toehold in the U.S. — and established the group as one willing to embrace edgy artistic flourishes. “I don’t look on it as a pornographic film or a dirty movie,” frontman Simon Le Bon told Darling then. “It says a lot of things visually, which are in the song. It’s not for dirty old men in movie theatres. It’s for girls as well as fellas.
But of course, the real star of “Rapture” is Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry, the ideal prototype for the MTV superstar with her blend of art-world chic, streetwise toughness and Classic Hollywood glamour. Harry is undeniably enchanting throughout “Rapture,” whether dancing with her Blondie bandmates or keeping up with the Man From Mars’ two-step during her third-verse rap — which made “Rapture” the closest thing to a hip-hop video shown on MTV’s first day .
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