b'My Five Faves END FRAME: That Shot We GotMUSICAL FRUITJosie Cotton askedDirector Francis Delia on the most memorable shot of Johnny, Are You Queer JoSIe CoTToN in 1981. Decades later, weWall of Voodoos Mexican Radioasked her to name her five favorite music videos.SOME VELVET MORNING W e were goingStan was underneath this to shoot twotable with his head in the Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra videos, onebeans, and we found a I like any video that looks like a feminine hygiene commercial, which this video does in spades.for Mexicanplastic garbage bag stuff Nancys weird white pantsuit and Lees odd vocal stylings aside, the truth is I am mesmerized byRadio and one forto put around his head that the poetry of his songwriting minimal and unexpected. I might not understand it but Im prettyFactory. Incidentally, thekept the beans falling sure he was banging Nancy Sinatraor should have. budget was $1300. Wedown. Theres no had an Eraserhead typeforeshadowing or setting treatment for Factory,up for a reveal, really. We and Stan Ridgway wascreated some anticipation IN THE LONG RUN saying, what if we hadwith a slow push-in. You some strange old womancan see his nose sticking The Carrie Nations in a kitchen andout so you he could Ok I cheated. These are actresses lip synching, drum synching and guitar synchingsomething is burning, andbreathe. It was in a fake video. BUT they were coached by Russ Meyer to be the very best at itandthen she was to go overconstructed in such a way this video appeared in his epic movie Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls which you oweto the stove, pull open thethat, on cue, Id say, Okay yourself to see if you havent. The reason I picked it is because something magic happensoven, and on the ovennow! and hed just push hereand as magic disappears from the world I think you have to hold on to it whereverrack there would bethrough. It just shows that you find it. Even in a fake video with a fake band. Stans face protrudingyou have to try new things from a meat loaf. Whenand trust the people you we realized we would bework with to come through.shooting a video for just THE MESSAGE one track, Stan is going, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five "Frank, what about the I remember hearing this for the first time and being riveted by it. There was no anger but you couldmeat loaf, weve got to feel the intensity, and you knew in your gut he was right. Considering everything going on right nowhave the meat loaf!" in this country, we are right at that edge, and its been a long time coming. This song is important"Well, I said, "its not and the video seminal a living window to the streets and faces and rawness. And here we are. going to be a meatloaf. Thats the bad news. The good news is, were going to still have your head in support, but since its WHIP IT Mexico, and they seem to like their beans down Devo there, its beans!" even When I cant understand something I like to call it postmodern. This is like that. Like an S&M sessionthough clearly these were in Pee Wees Playhouse. I like this video because when I met [DEVO co-founder] Mark Mothersbaughnot refried beans. My at a party in Hollywood and told him how inspiring I thought the song was, he looked at me like I wasgoodness. It would have insane. I suppose thats postmodern too. been quite a mess. Yeah, so, kind of strange. So then its like, okay, now how are we going to do this? Well, we get Ann Marie Bates, a lovely NASTY lady, as the woman. Janet Jackson Paulie Peterson found Janet nails it to the wall in this video. Shes the baddest of the bad and her performance isthat large single steel untouchable as well as the other dancers. But her asides, the look on her face, her attitudinalbowl and put a hole in the fierceness made me proud . Respect, Ms. Jackson! bottom of it.Keep up with Josie at https://josiecotton.com/82MVTMISSUE #1ISSUE #1MVTM83'