Your Imagination - Hall & Oates

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[MsDiesIrae9]

Back when videos were fun and not over produced ego masturbation.

[hawkeyesforever]

@NYPDServeProject Then why'd you watch it?

[uofmrules1]

This was the first Hall and Oates video I ever saw on MTV.

[vatara]

@MikeyMiken it's close, but Red Alert is from Locksmith - Far Beyond...watch?v=WZ7BnSU3HDY

[MikeyMiken]

So this is where they got the groove...

Basement Jaxx - "Red Alert!"

[lenelljeter2]

@Jaheartsjonas I interpret that to mean my local R&B station.

On the subject of white & other nonblack performers that do not get their R&B style songs played on black/soul radio stations in the 2000s, consider the fact that these stations have always supported a legitimate need to sustain black perfomers that have excellent talent & musical products but are not likely, for lots of reasons, to have their tunes played in pop stations/hot hits stations or any other stations.

[lenelljeter2]

@Jaheartsjonas Examples: Erica Badu, Musique, Donnell Jones, Anthony Hamilton, Angie Stone. For every Usher/Beyonce that does get played on pop radio there are 10 Donnell Joneses/Angie Stones that don't. On the other hand, Fergie, Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake have legit contemporary R&B songs but they have all the pop station support and airplay that they need and they can be very successful without support from black/soul radio stations.

[lenelljeter2]

@Jaheartsjonas Meanwhile, I do think that at least the "old school" and "classic R&B" stations could work in the occassional song from Hall & Oates, Culture Club, and other nonblack perfomers that have had hits on R&B radio and have appeared on Soul Train but who are not Robin Thick or Teena Marie. This is a bigger challenge than it sounds because these stations have mostly 50 years (since the 1960s) of music to choose from and play during a 24 hour day, 7 day week.

[lenelljeter2]

@Jaheartsjonas That is 50 years of music from excellent black R&B performers. It was a lot easier to include songs from nonblack performers in the 70s and 80s when there was only 20 to 25 years of prior music to choose from.

[lenelljeter2]

@Jaheartsjonas Given an either/or choice I can understand why those stations play a Lakeside or Al B Sure or The Family Stand or Groove Theory tune instead of a tune from David Bowie or Hall & Oates. I'll bet that Johnnie Taylor almost never is played on "true oldies" stations unless the tune is "Disco Lady" (which is arguably underappreciated on those stations).