Oh, what the hell… since I brought it up earlier, here’s the video for Wilson Phillips’ number-one smash hit, “Hold On”:
Pretty silly stuff, I know… so sweet and earnest and self-helpy. So “just between us, girlfriend.” So very 1990. (This will probably sound weird, but the music of the ’90s sounds far more dated to my ear than the music of the Awesome ’80s, which has achieved a sort of timeless quality, at least in my opinion). But like I said in the previous entry, it’s harmless stuff, and this song in particular has a catchy melody. I always liked it back in the day.
A couple observations:
- My god, these three girls all look so young. I don’t remember them seeming all that young back in 1990. If you scrubbed off the make-up and put them in purple plastic aprons, they could’ve been working behind the candy counter at the theater…
- I wonder if all the mountaintop helicopter footage was inspired at all by Sammy Hagar’s “Give to Live” video, which has a similar sequence. Or maybe in the late ’80s/early ’90s, it just seemed like a mountaintop was the best place to discuss this heavy “change your attitude, change your life” stuff.
- I remember how Carnie Wilson, the heavier of the two redheads, the one with the short, straight hair, took a lot of crap when Wilson Phillips was still extant for being “the fat one.” She doesn’t look all that big to me here; in fact, I think she’s quite attractive. Weird how your perspective on such things changes over time. (Of course, it probably helps that she really did become fat in later years, and she did it all in the public eye, so I’m most likely comparing her 1990 self against what she later became.)
- Chynna Phillips, the blond who’s doing the lead in this video, looks so much like her mother that it’s kinda spooky.
- And finally, for the record, my favorite of the group was always Wendy Wilson, the one with the curly red hair. She’s the prettiest in my eye, and that combination of a sundress with boots is still tres sexy…
And on that note, let’s get this holiday weekend started, shall we?
