b'Bands Look BackYour recording of No MoreHow funny that you talked to No More WordsWords was a great collaborationJerry because hes a good friend. with Giorgio Moroder. How didHe put together an intro video for the Bonnie & Clyde theme of theour live show, which was a huge video happen? montage of Berlin videos, clips and I wanted to do it because theweird shit because hes weird. I first kiss I ever got was inspired bylove him and his visual style. Thats Bonnie & Clyde. I had a boyfriend,why I hired him. Michael, and at the time I wasDid you know him from the old eight, and he was nine. We wentdays?to see the movie together. WeYes, Jerry designed a show for came back to my place, and he saidus. We had this big show we put he wanted to have intercoursetogether once wed made it and we with me, so I went to my mom.had a little money. We were doing Michael was outside by the pool,a show in L.A. at the Universal and I went inside. We were in anAmphitheater, which is now the apartment building at the time. SheGibson Amphitheater. He designed was dusting, and I remember shethe lights and sets for that show, had her back to me. I said to her,and to this day, its the best show Michael wants to have intercourseweve ever done as far as design with me, can I do that? And sheis concerned. Since then weve didnt turn aroundshe told mebeen friends. He is an absolute later that she nearly flipped outvisual genius. And Im a huge fan ofand she said, No, honey, I thinkDevo, great band and great music. it would be better when you areI saw his intro video for Devo, and older. When you are older youI was like, fuck me, I have to have can, but not now. So I ran out tosomething like that for Berlin. I Michael and said, Okay, so weasked him and he said hed love Director Dominic Orlando and cant do that, what else are weto do it. He did it quickly, and it Terri Nunn on the set of The Metro doing? We went across the streethad that signature strangeness. to a park, and we went away, farHes the one behind Devos visual from everybody. Theres a scenestrangeness, and always has been. in Bonnie & Clyde when they wereHe said if VH1 ever really in the tall grass, he was holdinglooked at Whip It, theres five or Sex (Im A.) her, and they did the kiss. To me,six really offensive things going What do you recall from shooting Sex (Im A)?that was just the hottest thingon there. What I remember about Sex is that the last personever, so I wanted to create that. SoThats what I love about him. you see in the video is my mother. She walks by Johnwe did. He kissed me lying downHes so offensive. Have you ever and me and we pretend to be in love. Were gropingin the grass, and I loved it. It wasbeen to his house? He has stuff on each other, and this woman walks by who is my mother,awesome. When the video camehis walls thats like, oh wow. (laugh) so I remember that. I remember everybody in the partyalong, however, many years later,Wow, and in his house, he can do scene being our friends. Boyfriends, girlfriends andsome concepts were being thrownwhatever he wants. That guy is a friends all dressed up. The food scene was funny becausearound, and I thought it would betrue icon.we were trying to be sensual eating the fruit and stuff,great to do a Bonnie & Clyde video to Lets talk about Take My close-ups of things being eaten and drunk. Whats funnyany song. I just wanted to be Bonnie.Breath Away, which on so many about that is that that was what got us rejected fromIts a fantastic clip.levels, seems like it was never MTV, not because of the song lyrics or John gropingThanks. Its my favorite clipmeant to happen, but became some naked mannequin, they didnt like the food scene.that we ever did. They did such ayour biggest success. The song They said, we cant have oysters being eaten like that.fantastic job with that video. I stillalso has a slightly melancholic We cant have someone licking that. (laugh) look at it and go wow, thats a greattone to it, as you have said before, Thats ridiculous. video.so that all adds up to a really We had to edit the whole thing down so its justDid MTV have any problematmospheric video. Terri Nunn of Berlin a couple of shots of things being eaten, so that gotwith all the guns in the video? It was really melancholy for me trashed.They did. They rejected the firstbecause I had no romance in my Sex and sexuality has been a through line in muchcut, they didnt like all the guns andlife at that time, I had no love in my of your work with Berlin. Why is that? the people shot. They said, YoulifeI had no life! It was all about can have shots, you can even havework and more work, so when I W hen I spoke to Dominic Orlando about shootingWe were twenty! What else do you think about?people fall, but you cant have thewould sing it, I would sing it from a (laugh) It was all we wanted, it was all we needed. It was the video for The Metro and youve said theall we wanted to talk about. It was all we were going for,gun and the person falling in theposition of wanting a life, wanting same thing about that shoothe said that youit was all we were trying to get. The guys are all tryingsame shot. So we had to do thata man, wanting someone in my life. were so tired that you were in tears by the timeto get laid. The hormones are raging, so thats what we(laugh). It didnt matter. They wereI was pining for it, so thats how I those tears were called for in the video. wrote about.the only people playing videos, sosang, from a position of lack of that Yeah, I was. I was crying. I was so over it. I was just over my wholeThe irony is that, as you have said in pastwe had to do anything they said.instead of having it. People hear life by then.interviews, you yourself had about a four year span ofJerry Casale [member of Devothat, instead of something like Part of what is interesting about The Metro is how cinematiccelibacy during those years. who directed many of their videos]you take my breath away because and surreal it is, and it spotlights you as an actress.Wow, youre good. Yes, four years or so. Yet anothersaid they had a similar problemyou love me and everythings so I recall how amazing the sets were. The walls were so interesting.reason I was writing about sex because I wasntabout hot dogs and doughnuts ingreat. It wasnt that at all. It was I just love the look of that video, what they did to make it sohaving any! (laugh) Except with myself, and that getsone of their videos.wow, that would be nice. cinematic. The sets were awesome. really old. 22MVTMISSUE #1ISSUE #1MVTM23'