Cardiac Arrest
I wanted to say something about how this is a poor man’s “Dancing in the Dark” meets “Boys of Summer” but it turns out this predates those by a good three years, which is impressive, somehow. The dancer at 1:04 is great New Wave punctuation, like a clip art exclamation point (or maybe also a dog’s paw print?)
Also, just cuz:
And why not?:
Generally this cover is no improvement on the original, but the House breakdown part (“wa-oh ah-oh/wa-oh ah-oh”) has the perfect fashion catwalk sound like House of Style/twirling around on a platform heel as Naomi Campbell.
I also totally forgot that Paul Rudd has a role in this pic. Pre-Apatow Rudd is such a dreamboat. How fun to have been a love interest in the two best soundtrack movies of 95/96.
