Pat Wilson - Bop Girl (1983)

Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1983:

Pat Wilson's promo-video for the hit single 'Bop Girl'.

Note: This video features a 15 year old Nicole Kidman and was played on MTV in America during the time it was a hit in Australia.

Note: To help promote his wife's single Daddy Cool/Mondo Rock frontman Ross Wilson makes a cameo appearance in this clip and adds a few wolf calls. He also wrote the damn song.

Note: Anybody notice a similarity between this '83 trashy-Aussie pop tune to Madonna's 1985 smash hit 'Material Girl'?

Artist's Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Track: Bop Girl
Album: non album single
Composed By: Ross Wilson
Produced By:
Label: WEA
Chart Position: # 2 (Australia)
Release Date:
Footage Information: Nicole Kidman
Links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Wilson

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NZOZ NZOZ1983 1983 Australia Early Eighties 1980's 1980s 80's 80s

Extended Tags: Mummy Cool (aka Pat Wilson)

Musical Terms: New Wave, Funk, Pop, Aussie, Old Australian singer-performer-solo artist

Compared to: Cyndi Lauper, Madonna ('Material Girl')

Category:

Music

Tags:

• New
• Wave
• Funk
• Pop
• Pat
• Wilson
• 1983
• Australia
• Early
• Eighties

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

Please don't confuse her name with the Weezer drummer. Please don't.

[nzoz1983]

@ClassicTVMan1981X she also drums with Weezer

[Geekman333]

Just as awful now as it was then. lol.

[nzoz1983]

@Geekman333 not geek enough?

[Geekman333]

@nzoz1983 LOL. No...just when music started to obviously become a 'product' rather than an expression. It's a shallow, silly song performed by an artist's wife and not very well in my opinion. I suspect they wanted to go overseas for Christmas that year and needed some extra bucks. Still...I came and watched it didn't I?

Thanks again for the great uploads.

[nzoz1983]

@Geekman333 lol, i like your wild guess about the extra bucks for a chrissie holiday... it is an awful song.. very ugly look at Australian suburbia in the early 80's.... and Nicole Kidman was under fucking age... oh well!

[Geekman333]

@nzoz1983 Haha that's the kind of suburbia I lived in at the time when I was under age too.

[AsinineComment]

@MeatCloud - Brass instrument? Oh, I see!! It sounds like "tuma" when you say it, but what you're TRYING to enunciate is 'flugel horn'. Silly me. (that was one of the only clever &/or funny posts I've EVER read on this tube thingee site. No, not my post - yours! You won't last long 'round these parts with that kind of brain. (I'm assuming you intended the lateral misinterpretation.))

[MeatCloud]

@AsinineComment

Erm... which large brass instrument are you talking about?

P.S. I have a harelip.

[AsinineComment]

@MeatCloud - I agree. Sorry, but I can't tell you who actually discovered her all those years ago. "tuma"? Did you accidentally slip into a mystery or specialist language, or were you simply unable to actually spell the incredibly easy, common word of 'tumour'?