80s Video Friday: Easy Lover

Easy Lover - Philipp Bailey Duet with Phil Collins

Interesting premise here: It's a video about the making of a video...go on...

To say that this video is an exercise in contrast is an understatement. From the moment the duet kicks off you have Philip Bailey with a stylish-unkempt, lounge-act swagger signing in unison with Phil Collins who looks so stuffy and wooden I was expecting him to burst into flames.

Then we have the production crew scrambling to put together the set for the video shoot. The artists' helicopter is landing and you're still painting the fucking set? Somebody's ass got fired after this. It's one thing to screw up a video shoot, it's an entirely different thing to screw up a fictitious video shoot.

Watch the 1:10 mark when Phil comes out of the door. Who walks like that? I had to re-watch that bit five times, each time in total disbelief.

1:18 - Get it? A black a white picture? Moving on...

3:04 - Here we have the classic black-guy-teaching-a-white-guy-to-dance, which is always entertaining and...wait, what the hell was that?? Did Phil Collins really just do that? Is that some sort of nervous tick? That was rather uncomfortable.

The Other Dude: 3:24 - Did he just button those unbottonable buttons on a suit jacket?

All in all, a pretty decent 80s video to kick off the weekend. Definitely one that will get stuck in your head just in time for the commute home.

"She's an easy lover..."