I have to admit, I don’t hate the super-cheesy soft rock of the late 1980s and early 1990s. But this is a fantastic example of why the genre is, to so many people, so hateful. Terrible smooth jazz saxophone, floor toms pounding and echoing as the music reaches its climax, sentimental and saccharine melodies. And lots and lots of white people.
In fact, at this point of his early career, Michael Bay was a champion of cheese. There are no explosions to be found in any of his videos, just white people complaining and celebrating their privilege.
There are some consistencies that one can point to in Bay’s music videos that could be his personal stylistic ticks, or they could just be indicative of the general style of the era. The black and white and color switching is here again, but unlike in the Divinyls video, it just seems pointless here.
To be honest this video is just complete garbage and could easily be replaced by a slideshow of stock footage models looking longingly into the distance.
It’s not much of a surprise considering this that Bay’s films are filled with exploding cities. If this is the culture that he was a party to as he came of age, he was right to want to see it destroyed.
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