Just as the habit doesn't make the monk, one could say that the video doesn't make the song.
Journey know something about this, having released Separate Ways (Worlds Apart), the first single from their 1983 album Frontiers, with a video created especially for MTV.
Steve Perry, the singer, did not agree, but artists often have no say in the matter and must adapt to the wishes of the music industry.
And since MTV, born a couple of years earlier, launched the songs so well that it made dollar signs appear instead of pupils in the eyes of record executives, the band had to capitulate.
Well, Steve Perry had the right intuition to want to continue with the style of the previous videos.
The video for Separate Ways (Worlds Apart), in fact, turned out to be one of the least successful and most criticized in the history of music.
Journey, in fact, do not seem at all at ease, especially in the parts where they pretend to play fake instruments on a pier.
But...
There's a but (with me there's almost always a but 😉) and it's this: but from this to openly mocking a band... well, let's calm down.
But...
Oops, there's another but 😉 and this is even more important.
But instead of focusing on the video, can't we listen to the song?
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) is one of the most beautiful pieces by Journey, with a sound that perfectly embodies 80s American rock.
What more do we want?
I still listen to this song a lot today and who cares about the video.
And to be honest, watching old videos is like watching old photographs: they both have dated and slightly embarrassing styles (for my photos, slightly should be raised to the nth degree). So, a video like Journey's, nowadays, instead of making you turn up your nose, can only raise a smile.
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