Uploaded by MrGuillermowilliams on Nov 14, 2011
Is a New Wave single released and popularised by ABC in 1982 and also included on their 1982 debut album, The Lexicon of Love. It reached #6 on the UK singles chart, #4 in Australia and also was their first entry on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, at #25. Karen Clayton provides the backing vocals.
The single was released in the UK on 7" and 12", with the same mix appearing on both formats; however a subsequent U.S. 12" remix (also known as the "Jazz Remix") appears on several ABC compilations and as a bonus track on reissues of The Lexicon of Love.
An alternate, lounge music-styled version of this song, entitled "Theme From Mantrap," was released as the B-side of "Poison Arrow" in the UK and The Look of Love in the US. The UK 12" single additionally included an instrumental version of "Theme From Mantrap" under the title "Mantrap (The Lounge Sequence)". Their UK hit "Tears Are Not Enough" was the US B-side of Poison Arrow.
In the music video, Martin Fry plays three roles — as a haughty upper-class opera patron, as a messenger boy at the opera, and as a bandleader at a 1960s-style swinging nightspot — and unsuccessfully attempts to woo the leading lady, played by Lisa Vanderpump of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, in all three roles.
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my favorite on vice city
FridayNightWarez 20 hours ago
please help me dig some of these arrows out of my a--!
1blessedbrotha 22 hours ago
LOL! Lisa Van der Pump
SH1Nd1GG1TY 1 week ago
Seblaine, man.
JamesPotterVEVO 1 week ago
saw this on Nip/Tuck !
char1737 1 week ago
@grahammj
The copyright logic is weird. It seems they won't remove the video if it's flipped, even if it's not altered in any other way other than making things happen from the left to right instead of vice versa.
papoj1PVR 2 weeks ago
@tjw8T1
Not sure if New Romantic was different...it's hard to tell the difference.
papoj1PVR 2 weeks ago
@lumpyroc
...don't...don't even think about using that joke...PLEASE! D:
papoj1PVR 2 weeks ago
Lisa is one of my FAVES!
jjlucash 3 weeks ago
A pity it's a few frames out of sync...
feverpitch96 3 weeks ago