{"id":8090,"date":"2016-02-13T00:37:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T07:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2016-02-13T00:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T07:37:32","slug":"friday-evening-videos-nothin-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/13\/friday-evening-videos-nothin-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos: &#8220;Nothin&#8217; at All&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first listen, the song in tonight&#8217;s Friday Evening Video might not strike you as especially romantic. It&#8217;s an uptempo rocker instead of a ballad, and the word &#8220;love&#8221; isn&#8217;t uttered once in the lyrics. But the thing about this song, the thing that made me think of it as we head into the Valentine&#8217;s Day weekend, is that it brilliantly captures the <em>sensation<\/em> of a new romance if not the poetry of it, that giddy euphoria you get right at the beginning when everything seems to be going right and you can&#8217;t stop thinking about that lucky girl or guy, and you&#8217;re counting the minutes until you can be with them again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also one of the handful of songs that effortlessly make me happy; something about its sonic construction &#8212; the melody, the beat, the quality of the vocals &#8212; presses a button in me and makes me feel good regardless of what sort of day I&#8217;ve been having. And the line &#8220;I walk home every evening and my feet are quick to move\/because I know my destination is a warm and waiting you&#8221; is simply one of the dead sexiest lyrics I&#8217;ve ever heard.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, one of my absolute personal favorites:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y2lXKZ9Zksg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothin&#8217; at All&#8221; was the fourth single released from Heart&#8217;s self-titled 1985 album, which was the band&#8217;s first on the Capitol Records label. Heart had been around for roughly a decade at that point, depending on which date you use as its official beginning, and I know some older fans were a bit put off by this album, which brought Heart a new, slicker sound and a hair-metal visual makeover. But it also yielded their greatest commercial success, becoming their first (and so far only) number-one album and spending a mind-blowing <em>92<\/em> weeks on the <em>Billboard<\/em> charts. The album yielded four hit singles, one of which &#8212; &#8220;These Dreams&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; was their first number-one. &#8220;Nothin&#8217; at All&#8221; was released in April 1986 and peaked at number 10. Curiously, the song exists in different forms; the mix featured in this video and on the 45 rpm single is an alternate version of the album track, although some early pressings of the <em>Heart<\/em> album used this mix as well. The original mix, which has a far more subdued vocal track and guitar solo, appears on other pressings of the album and some compilations. For what it&#8217;s worth, my preference is the punchier alternate mix you just heard in the video.<\/p>\n<p>As for the video itself, well&#8230; it&#8217;s admittedly not so great. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson were never terribly comfortable with the MTV thing and its emphasis on musicians&#8217; appearance over the music, especially Ann, who has long been self-conscious about her weight (needlessly, in my opinion, but then I know firsthand that how you see yourself often isn&#8217;t how others see you). They both seem pretty awkward in front of the camera to me, much as I like looking at them, and the whole bit in their bedroom with Nancy trying on different outfits is just cheesy. Nevertheless, I do enjoy watching this one. It has an air of glamour that was common to a lot of popular media in the mid-1980s, and which I think we lost with the closing of that decade. I miss that kind of moody lighting. And it doesn&#8217;t hurt either that the video was filmed in Los Angeles&#8217; Bradbury Building, a gorgeously preserved structure from 1893 that&#8217;s instantly recognizable fans of the movie <em>Blade Runner<\/em> as the home of JF Sebastian.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, I&#8217;m going to press play on the video again and wish you all a very happy Valentine&#8217;s Day. See you in the pyramids in light!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first listen, the song in tonight&#8217;s Friday Evening Video might not strike you as especially romantic. It&#8217;s an uptempo rocker instead of a ballad, and the word &#8220;love&#8221; isn&#8217;t uttered once in the lyrics. But the thing about this song, the thing that made me think of it as we head into the Valentine&#8217;s [&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-8090","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\/8090","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=8090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}