{"id":5073,"date":"2006-07-03T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2010-07-15T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T16:31:32","slug":"genius-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5073","title":{"rendered":"It Is Not a Good Idea To Do Air Guitar In Your Own Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know it’s Hoff’s new music video for his song “Jump in my car”. I realize it’s Hoff. But this video is GENIUS<\/a>. And by “genius” I mean “mortifying <\/b>to watch”. And yet also … it’s AWE-some.<\/b><\/p>\n

Suddenly he’s dancing in front of an American flag? What? Why? Where did that come from? Also, you’re driving on the European side of the car, dude … are you trying to remind us you’re an American? By randomly dancing in front of the stars and stripes? WHY??<\/p>\n

And doing AIR GUITAR in your own video? Hoff. I do air guitar myself. Alone. In my apartment. When no one’s looking.<\/p>\n

Also: sorry, but he is HARASSING those poor girls. There is nothing sexy about a plastic-faced old man basically forcing you and your friends to get in his car with him. This does not look good. I don’t care that he’s a star and he sang at the Berlin Wall. He is 68 years old, and the girls look, literally, like jail bait. I found it creepy. I found myself wanting to shout at them, “RUN!” No means no, Hoff. They said NO once, twice, even THREE times (in unison, and harmonizing no less!) – what are you deaf???<\/p>\n

And yet I found myself tapping my toe. And … I kinda like the lead girl (who’s sitting beside him in the front seat) She’s cute. She looks like a young Barbra Streisand – that kind of beautiful strong face. I admit it that I love the girl-voice chorus. And by “love” I mean: “shame-filled involuntary toe-tapping”.<\/p>\n

What is UP with the devil horns?<\/p>\n

Why<\/b>? I beg of you … why?<\/p>\n

He really has to STOP with the whole phony background thing. It’s so dumb.<\/p>\n

And yet I do like how he is making fun of his own image. The Kit car. The Baywatch moment. Etc. Self-deprecation is always attractive. Like when he does his own slo-mo. That’s actually pretty funny.<\/p>\n

And yet … I question his motives.<\/p>\n

Stop harassing the tweens, Hoff.<\/p>\n

And don’t ever move your hips like that again. Okay? Thanks.<\/p>\n

I have so many thoughts. None of them make sense. I can’t stop watching it. I absolutely adore it. The best thing I’ve seen all year.<\/p>\n

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I know it’s Hoff’s new music video for his song “Jump in my car”. I realize it’s Hoff. But this video is GENIUS. And by “genius” I mean “mortifying to watch”. And yet also … it’s AWE-some. Suddenly he’s dancing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21029,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/21029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}