Lionel Richie "Hello" Ultimate 80's Cheese

Lionel Richie ^ | 1983 | Lionel Richie

[newfreep]

Earlier this week, Rick Beato posted an interview with Steve Lukather - a legendary guitarist on so many tracks in addition to his work in Toto.

[dfwgator]

Saw that, great interview.

Here’s the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nBbzajS29o

[higgmeister]

Watch it again until the end where they try to put it back together.   So corny and camp!

Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aesthetic attributes such as beauty, value, and taste through an invitation of a different kind of apprehension and consumption.

Camp can also be a social practice and function as a style and performance identity for several types of entertainment including film, cabaret, and pantomime. Where high art necessarily incorporates beauty and value, camp necessarily needs to be lively, audacious and dynamic. The visual style is closely associated with gay culture.

[left that other site]

I understand “Camp”. It’s been around for a long time. The “It’s so bad, it’s GOOD” style.

I understand it, but that doesn’t mean I have to LIKE it.

Anyway, thanks for the definition. :-)

[OneVike]

Cheesy?

I think not. I see it as a metaphor.

If you have never loved someone from afar, it may be cheesy. Think about it, quietly loving someone whom you are so afraid of letting know, because you fear rejection, is kind of like stalking them mentally.

Fear of failure is what keeps the losers in life standing together in the gym talking to each other about why she would reject them, or what they would do if they had the balls to ask her to dance. While the heroes are those who come to the realization that failure is not an option, so they step up and ask the beautiful gal to dance.

When all these boys grow up and go to war, it's the losers who sit back waiting for the heroes to face the fire, so they can go home and brag about how they were brave enough to fight. Sadly, too many times the heroes seldom go home, but they did make it possible for the cowards to.

Cowards make videos of beautiful blind girls making the first move, because in reality they themselves are the blind ones. In their mind, the beautiful girl is too blind to see what a coward they truly are, so she makes the first move.

In a symbolic way, the video speaks to the fear we all have of failing. Failure is so much easier to hide, when someone who doesn't know us makes the first move, or takes the lead in war. Often times, it's that one friend we all have who steps up, giving us others courage to follow suit. In life, we call those men true leaders, while the rest are followers.

Sadly, in the fantasy world of music and movies, it's the losers who become the heroes, while and the heroes become the losers. Just look at who is adored in life by the masses, the cowards. While too often the true heroes are painted as the losers.

Yes, I remember this video well, yet I saw it differently. I saw a metaphor of how the coward won the girl without having the balls to walk up and say,

“Hi, my names is ……….., would you like to dance?”

I prefer to be the hero who took a chance and asked the girl to dance. The guy who took a chance at failing, and ended up winning the war. They guy who looks back in my life at the many times I did fail, but took the chance and tried anyway. The guy who is now comfortable in my skin is because when I needed to be, I was a hero. If even just for myself.