Ah, the good genre of 80s music videos. You get all sorts of crazy stuff in these videos and today’s pick has many rather interesting ingredients. Rapture by Blondie is the perfect fusion of New Wave, Disco, Funk and pop music and is one of their best known songs. Everyone knows it and loves the groove. So onto the music video itself. o in this video we’ve got

• The Man From Mars – He appears several times in this video. He opens up with some nice hopping. He’s the dude in the white top hat and suit who has sunglasses and likes to dance
• Debbie Harry – Who looks fantastic in this video, kicks things off by dancing at a party. Then she starts lecturing the DJ about the works of Fab Five Freddie and Grandmaster Flash before wandering off into the bizarre street below.
• Random Street – So Debbie walks onto this street from hell where various ‘special‘ characters – including a graffiti artist, some disco ravers, the Man from Mars, a nice chap dressed in the flag colours of the United States waving at the camera, a red indian who appears from behind a bush, a telephone booth with a large queue, a young ballet dancer – can be found. Interesting.
• The Man From Mars (again) – Starts dancing crazily on the phrase ‘punk rock’. Watch out for the goat in the background at this point for bonus points.
• Debbie Harry (again) - Appears again in another outfit. Then you see a nice lady dancing against a wall, as you do. Then Debbie dances with the Man From Mars who eventually leads the ensemble out of a door, up some stairs and off into the night, never to be seen again..

What is this video and song about then? A nightclub from hell? The clubbing experience in New York City in the late 1970s, the Studio 54 area? Being a crazy drug trip? Rap music? Being Blondie? I’ve listened to his song quite a bit and it has inspired the of stuff that I’ve done with The Gatefold and continue to do so in the near future. However, my opinion of what it is?

The best video of the 1980s.