and Words
Talking away
I don’t know what I’m to say
I’ll say it anyway
Today is another day to find you
Shying away
I’ll be coming for your love. OK?
Take on me (Take on me)
Take me on (Take on me)
I’ll be gone
In a day or two
Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.
I grew up a child of the 80’s. The melding of video transformed the experience from merely listening to music to seeing moving images. I spend hours tuned to MTV, though somewhat in the background. We never got the “stereo hookup” that they kept pushing on the commercials. I imagine they were merely RCA outputs that piped that signal from the television through your stereo. It was just as well, as the televisions in our house were either large console television, about the size of a fireplace, or a modest 13″ set that sat in my bedroom. Their speakers were tinny and miserable, but they resembled the washed-out screens that flashed those grainy images.
I discovered music alternating between preset stations on the radio and whatever played on MTV. My sisters and I were fascinated by the videos. For weeks, the VJ’s spoke about Rick Springfield’s video premiere for “Don’t Talk to Strangers”, to which we tuned intently. We imagined it would be a monumental event from all the hype; we didn’t anticipate it would be literally just the playing of the video and then promptly on to the next video… No other videos by Rick Springfield, nor interviews. We were more perplexed than disappointed.