{"id":2114,"date":"2011-02-18T17:26:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2011-02-18T17:26:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T17:26:19","slug":"friday_evening_videos_hold_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/18\/friday_evening_videos_hold_on\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos: &#8220;Hold On&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, what the hell&#8230; since I brought it up <a title=\"Hold On for One More Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2113\">earlier<\/a>, here&#8217;s the video for Wilson Phillips&#8217; number-one smash hit, &#8220;Hold On&#8221;:<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uIbXvaE39wM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uIbXvaE39wM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Pretty silly stuff, I know&#8230; so sweet and earnest and self-helpy. So &#8220;just between us, girlfriend.&#8221; So <i>very<\/i> 1990. (This will probably sound weird, but the music of the &#8217;90s sounds far more dated to my ear than the music of the Awesome &#8217;80s, which has achieved a sort of timeless quality, at least in my opinion). But like I said in the previous entry, it&#8217;s harmless stuff, and this song in particular has a catchy melody. I always liked it back in the day.<br \/>\nA couple observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My god, these three girls all look so <i>young<\/i>. I don&#8217;t remember them seeming all that young back in 1990. If you scrubbed off the make-up and put them in purple plastic aprons, they could&#8217;ve been working behind the candy counter at the theater&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I wonder if all the mountaintop helicopter footage was inspired at all by Sammy Hagar&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2010\/04\/friday_evening_videos_give_to.html\">Give to Live<\/a>&#8221; video, which has a similar sequence. Or maybe in the late &#8217;80s\/early &#8217;90s, it just seemed like a mountaintop was the best place to discuss this heavy &#8220;change your attitude, change your life&#8221; stuff.<\/li>\n<li>I remember how Carnie Wilson, the heavier of the two redheads, the one with the short, straight hair, took a lot of crap when Wilson Phillips was still extant for being &#8220;the fat one.&#8221; She doesn&#8217;t look all that big to me here; in fact, I think she&#8217;s quite attractive. Weird how your perspective on such things changes over time. (Of course, it probably helps that she really <i>did<\/i> become fat in later years, and she did it all in the public eye, so I&#8217;m most likely comparing her 1990 self against what she later became.)<\/li>\n<li>Chynna Phillips, the blond who&#8217;s doing the lead in this video, looks so much like her <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5vl8knc\">mother<\/a> that it&#8217;s kinda spooky.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, for the record, my favorite of the group was always Wendy Wilson, the one with the curly red hair. She&#8217;s the prettiest in my eye, and that combination of a sundress with boots is still <i>tres<\/i> sexy&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on that note, let&#8217;s get this holiday weekend started, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, what the hell&#8230; since I brought it up earlier, here&#8217;s the video for Wilson Phillips&#8217; number-one smash hit, &#8220;Hold On&#8221;: Pretty silly stuff, I know&#8230; so sweet and earnest and self-helpy. So &#8220;just between us, girlfriend.&#8221; So very 1990. (This will probably sound weird, but the music of the &#8217;90s sounds far more dated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-evening-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}