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Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk

RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

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That is so great. My wife and i love to annoy our teenage kids by getting Alexa to play this song and then singing along very dramatically haha.

How old are you, for curiosities sake? I'm born early 90s, fondly remembering me and a friend shaming all the rest of our group by singing this song (dramatically as well) as a duet whenever we were in (already loud) public spaces.

I'm 50, i have two boys ages 16 and 14. My wife was more into music than I was growing up (i grew up in rural areas, she grew up in the city). One of my favorite stories she has is helping Modest Mouse unload their van when playing in Dallas at Club Dada (small local venue) back in the 90s. She also has so many cool rave, hiphop, and sxsw stories from that era since she went to HS in Arlington TX (class of '95), UT for college, and then lived in NYC for a while dating a musician. Austin in the mid/late 90s was a very special place to be a young person.

Back in 1999, the UK had its first total solar eclipse for several decades and VH1 played the music video (though, not this one ;-)) on loop for an hour while it was happening.

If you like meta-songs, you may be interested in "Title of this song" by Da Vinci's Notebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmUgFEFzco&list=RDHgmUgFEFz...

There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”.

“Haaaand comes out…”

Safety Dance is up there with the better ones, too.

Nowhere near as good though.

I think Bad Apple the literal version compares well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReblZ7o7lu4

The back story of the writing of Total Eclipse ain't bad either: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70

Sony tried so hard to kill this when it was new

I had never seen the music video until the news started playing it. Super funny

I'm glad this is still on the Internet. It's exactly the sort of thing that almost never is, when I try to find it again several years after seeing it the first time.

I like to pretend that was filmed in the Hogwarts sixth form commmon room in the eighties

It pretty much was. It was filmed in a Victorian sanitorium, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Sanatorium (built 1873-1885) which is in keeping with your (and JK Rowling's) vision of public schools, in particular Hogwarts was modelled on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettes_College (built 1864-1870) in a similar architectural style.

I came here to post this, glad you beat me to it. I pulled a muscle laughing the first time I saw this.

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