{"id":2209,"date":"2013-08-10T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2013-08-10T15:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T19:54:38","slug":"video-talking-heads-wild-wild-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2013\/08\/10\/video-talking-heads-wild-wild-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Talking Heads, Wild Wild Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now, from deep in the vault, an ’80s classic: Wild Wild Life<\/i>, by the Talking Heads<\/a>, which actually won a VMA for Best Group Video in 1987. Though this video can be watched and understood on its own, it is not self-contained; it’s part of a larger work, a movie called True Stories<\/a><\/i>, that was written and directed by David Byrne<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There are a couple of celebrity cameos (John Goodman! Sam Kinison! Someone whom I’m pretty sure is Spalding Grey!) and a couple of parodies of celebrity cameos (Prince, Billy Idol, The Karate Kid, someone who is supposed to represent Cyndi Lauper and\/or Madonna); really it is a gently biting commentary on the state of pop culture at the time it was made.<\/p>\n

 
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