Monkey Business Official Video

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#106 Post by Shopper »

What a fabulous video! Was totally beaming :)

It's a nice modern/updated version of their iconic Was It Worth it video
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#107 Post by Lleonard Pler »

Fabulous, fun video. Their best video since Together, I think.

Chris Lowe joining the dancing crowd was as unexpected as lovely.

Also, the radio edit doesn't do any justice to the song: it must be played in full craziness. Excited for tomorrow (well, tonight on Spotify).

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#108 Post by onzio »

Come on Petheads, all this arguing is close to pathetic!
I don't think that don't liking Drags makes you homophobic since bere we're all fans of a couple of gay men. On the other side everybody seem to overreact to everything that doesn't encunter his personal, own and egoistic taste. This is the video, there is a Drag Queen and a couple of gay sailors, as someone wrote this is the band we choose to like so don't make a drama out of this! If someone doean't like It, I think he has the right to politely express It without bering labeled as homophobic: don't act as victims. We're supposed to be on the same side.
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#109 Post by alig »

It's definitely a fun video, irrespective of the aesthetics. People dancing incl. Chris? Goes well with the mood and it might appeal to many people.
I'm surprised they finally made a lavish, six figure video after departing from EMI.
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#110 Post by Remark »

Extraordinary video. Now this is exactly what we / they needed! Several of us were recently debating in another thread about why the PSB abandoned video as a format and that if they took it seriously they could still do some amazing things — and this video is proof of that!! Imagine if we had this attention put towards The Pop Kids, Love is Bourgeois Construct, or a do-over of the Vocal video? SO GOOD.

And I agree that that the full version of Monkey Business is definitely better (why are the PSB even 'giving in' to radio edits these days?? It would be one thing if this track was originally 6 minutes but it's only 4? WTF). The song has completely grown on me and I can't stop listening to it.... :dance:

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#111 Post by Tom Angel »

Well that is bloody marvellous isn't it!

And Chris dancing for the first time since Domino dancing??

Shame it fade out so quickly. Needs a hi-hat close.

But it's such a bloody ace song. Look forward to the remixes. It's their first ever proper dance tune.
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#112 Post by leesmapman »

The video does an excellent attempt in capturing the club/dance feel. Really fun video.

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#114 Post by ArtHist »

Reminds me of Madge's 'Sorry' video. The guy in white with the 'tache is hawt AF.

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Let's play who do you fancy: I'd go for the ginger lass.
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#116 Post by bongsteve »

Love the video, great to see them both in the video and Chris dancing!

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#117 Post by alig »

leesmapman wrote: Thu 23 Jan 2020, 6:38 pm The video does an excellent attempt in capturing the club/dance feel. Really fun video.

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Yea, and the lyrics go so well with any club night animating people to have fun.
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#118 Post by Spittingcat »

Okay, that video has taken from being ambivalent about the song, to absolutely loving it!

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#119 Post by onzio »

It is very funny, especially at the end when the situation goes absolutely out of control. But I do agree that the dance routines in front of the camera are some kind of a cliché of several music videos.
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#120 Post by Old Soak »

Well what a joy to see Chris dancing, really hope he takes a hint and does that in the upcoming tour. They both looked like they enjoyed the process. Anyone think the sailors' get up was a nod to Chris' famous stripy-topped photo from the start of their career? And that the bald bloke dancing looks like a fat Neil.
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