This report was originally released to coincide with the North American photo voltaic eclipse on August 21, 2017. It was republished for the duration of a further eclipse on April 8, 2024.
Unless you have been lately launched into outer place and are at this time traveling way too near to the solar and/or moon, you are very likely informed that we are encountering a exceptional complete eclipse of the sun this afternoon. This momentous situation has quickly created “Total Eclipse of the Heart” the most well-liked track in The us, 34 yrs right after it 1st grew to become a major-40 smash.
Folks with a good deal of time on their arms and/or an unhealthy obsession with ’80s artifacts could have utilised this celebration as an excuse to revisit the movie for Bonnie Tyler’s melodramatic energy ballad, which loved regular rotation again in the day on MTV and Friday Night time Videos. In case you have forgotten: This online video is wonderful in its ridiculousness. To emphasize just how ridiculously wonderful, I have written this critique of the key things in the clip, which was directed by Russell Mulcahy, a man I will eternally revere simply because, through the exact same period, he was accountable for putting a shirtless John Taylor from Duran Duran on a Sri Lankan elephant. Enjoy, and be sure to really do not stare specifically at this video for too very long or you will go partly blind.
Opening sequence: The video starts by closing in on a window at what is possibly a megamansion or the ’80s version of Hogwarts. Inside of that place are Bonnie Tyler and a bunch of things that was evidently stolen from Stevie Nicks’s dressing space: lovers, a gauzy bandanna, and a ton of candles. A dove — or maybe Stevie Nicks’s white cockatoo from the Bella Donna album address — flies in by an open up doorway and flaps its wings in position, oblivious to the actuality that the tune is telling it to flip all over. A shadow moves throughout a complete moon. Tyler seems to be plaintively out the window from beneath 7 tons of eye shadow. This video is significant.
Enter the weird schoolboy. I advised you this was ’80s Hogwarts! Besides this child is definitely not a Hufflepuff. He has frightening, glowing blue eyes due to the fact Mulcahy and his team were being like, “Let’s choose the part the place she sings about shiny eyes extremely virtually.”
Bonnie Tyler is not concerned, nevertheless. Her expression says: my make-up is not only ornamental, it is a protecting accommodate of armor.
All right, now factors are obtaining ridiculous. A great deal of matters that never make perception but seem type of amazing — which describes almost just about every music video clip from this period — happen in excess of the subsequent minute or so. Gauzy shawls burst open doorways. Millie Bobby Brown reveals up and starts off throwing birds at the camera.
Male swimmers donning goggles get doused by water. A bunch of dancing ninjas burst onto the scene simply because, confident, why not?
Some guys sitting down close to a extravagant evening meal desk toast-crash their goblets into just about every other. Then the sword fighters and 50 %-naked cartwheel-ers show up, which, in the ’80s, is how you knew a Gothic pop-ballad get together was really obtaining major.
Wait, hold on a 2nd. The T-Birds from Grease just showed up.
And also: the cast of Friday Night Lights.
Bonnie Tyler is obtaining upset. Even with the out-of-management wind devices, her layered hair nonetheless looks remarkable.
Then Bonnie starts to operate for it. Seriously, wouldn’t you if you were being in this online video?
And that is when she comes across the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Glowing Eye Version. And then a single of them quickly departs! No, wait, he was just flying over to be nearer to Bonnie.
At this point Bonnie is singing when staying surrounded by the half-naked cartwheel-dancers and, in other photographs, by the Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall” Fire Retina Refrain. It’s all extremely confusing. But I guess items get bewildering when you are dwelling in a powder keg and offering off sparks.
But the Angel from Angels in America is in this article to heal Bonnie Tyler. And also, everyone continue to observing this movie.
Then will come the twist: It is daytime and it turns out Bonnie Tyler is really (I think) a new teacher at ’80s Hogwarts. Wait around, what is this movie about? Is it about this woman’s suppressed inner thoughts of longing, lust, and worry towards her students? Since that’s form of what I’m obtaining from this, considering that, aside from that a person shot of the moon, none of this has nearly anything to do with an eclipse.
And then the second twist: A single of these seemingly typical pupils has the glowing eyes! And he, as well as his peers, advises Tyler to switch all-around!
Probably that’s what this movie is telling us: that if you really don’t switch about and keep away from staring specifically at a whole eclipse, you’ll wind up with a case of the ol’ radioactive eyeballs.
And just like that, the video for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” proved it wasn’t just a songs online video. It was in fact a community support announcement.
