nightdog_barks: (Jackrabbit Sun)
[personal profile] nightdog_barks
The word, of course, is Word Up! by Cameo, and it's what I was listening to on Jack.FM in the car. And since who couldn't use a little funk with some power brass on a hot Sunday afternoon, here it is. Yes, chiclets, this is what a lot of kids who used to be your age were dancing to in the '80s.



And yes, that's Geordi LaForge (heh) as the police detective.

Date: 2012-06-03 09:24 pm (UTC)
namaste: (Default)
From: [personal profile] namaste
Is there any 80s funk groove not improved by the appearance of a red codpiece?

Date: 2012-06-04 02:28 am (UTC)
blackmare: (Beaker)
From: [personal profile] blackmare
I was 14 in 1986, and I did see this video, and let me tell you, I was scandalized. And offended. And I hated, hated, hated this song because it was just about SEX and RANDOM HOOKUPS and I took all that sort of thing Very Seriously then.

Now I just wanna dance to it, and am secure in knowing that it will not in fact corrupt my impressionable young mind.

Date: 2012-06-03 09:41 pm (UTC)
damigella: (Default)
From: [personal profile] damigella
First I was all like, WTF? I was a kid in the 80s, and I have no memory of this. Then I noticed (on the page you kindly linked) that it's actually from 1986. Which means after I Became A Total Nerd in 1984. No wonder.

Date: 2012-06-03 10:57 pm (UTC)
namaste: (Default)
From: [personal profile] namaste
They used it in a lot of step aerobic classes I took back in the day.

Date: 2012-06-04 02:50 am (UTC)
pwcorgigirl: (smile froggy)
From: [personal profile] pwcorgigirl
Funny girl! :D

Date: 2012-06-04 10:55 am (UTC)
namaste: (Default)
From: [personal profile] namaste
It was a very odd class. :-)

Date: 2012-06-04 08:45 am (UTC)
damigella: Florence as seen from Piazzale Michelangelo (home)
From: [personal profile] damigella
I agree that nerds are born, but I started living as one full time when I began college. I quit watching TV overnight, and lost contact with fashion in music, dress and everything else.
And 28 is young (at least seen from me now).

Date: 2012-06-03 10:51 pm (UTC)
taiga13: (Ignatius O'Reilly)
From: [personal profile] taiga13
My goodness! I SHOULD recognize this, I was a tween in 1986, but I don't. I remember the era well, though. I cracked up when TaigaSis told me that she has "Funky Called Medina" on her iPod because it has a good beat for jogging :)
that's Geordi LaForge (heh) as the police detective.
Ahh, I never would have recognized him!

Date: 2012-06-04 02:48 am (UTC)
pwcorgigirl: (Mabel)
From: [personal profile] pwcorgigirl
I recognized him because we watched a lot of Reading Rainbow, which he hosted, when Corgikid was a wee tot. But that was a few years after the video was made. :)

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