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In Praise of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ and Its Sublimely Ridiculous Video
A blow-by-blow of a video that takes the line “bright eyes” extremely seriously.
A dove — or perhaps Stevie Nicks’s white cockatoo from the Bella Donna album cover — flies in through an open doorway and flaps its wings in place, oblivious to the fact that the song is telling it to turn around. At this point Bonnie is singing while being surrounded by the half-naked cartwheel-dancers and, in other shots, by the Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall” Fire Retina Chorus. Maybe that’s what this video is telling us: that if you don’t turn around and avoid staring directly at a total eclipse, you’ll wind up with a case of the ol’ radioactive eyeballs.
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