For the
Beatles purists out there who thought the worst thing imaginable was having the
Bee Gees redo
Sgt. Pepper's, here's something even worse--
Ozzy and
Dweezil redoing "Stayin' Alive":
"Every man has his price" and every man discovers his threshold where
Huey Lewis no longer sounds that bad. My threshold was reached upon rediscovering this video for "Summertime Girls" by
Y&T:
The half-shirt, a sign of 80s masculinity. It made a comeback with
Axl when he did this duet with
Elton John on "Bohemian Rhapsody" (skip to the end where the two walk towards each other in 60s variety show fashion for the denouement):
I'm sorry for not being able to stay away from the Axl videos. However, the most holyfuckingshit moment comes from his ex-bandmate
Slash's team-up with
Puff Daddy for some vague, all-inclusive charity function. Note the "Ending Hunger" message dead center in big Broadway letters while Puffy raps "It's All About the Benjamins":
Its all about the benjamins, what?/I get a fifty pound bag of ooh for the mutts /
Five carats on my hands with the cuts/
And swim in european figures/Fuck bein' a broke nigga.
That kind of dimwittedness requires a purity of essence. One would have to go back to
Tom Mix serials to find an equal lack in irony.