Bow Wow Wow - Louis Quatorze

Bow Wow Wow from 1980 (or 1981) "Louis Quatorze" promo video.

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Music

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• Bow
• Wow
• Louis
• Adam
• Ant

[Ratchetchan]

The sheer audacity of writing a song basically about child rape at gunpoint... let alone having a child sing it and releasing it as a single.

Amazing.

[shadowpapito]

I miss when Music was allowed to be a True Art, that it was Art in art along side and beside Art. They were allowed to be creative and take chances. Now it about a formula and cash not about Pure Art or at the least allowed to be expressive in an artistic way

[imnotthatbloodyguy]

@briteness

im pretty sure she sued them at one point

[cythera431]

"Honey, close your eyes and think of England."

..."Just a second!"  brilliant

[briteness]

@shadowpapito If Malcolm had read this, he probably would have laughed.

[briteness]

Imagine having been Annabella's mom...

[kittyprydekissme]

I wish there was a video for the second version. It's so much better.

[cythera431]

Please, let's forgo the hackneyed histrionics and symbolism. Just enjoy an amazing song: great sound, and irreplaceable performance by Annabella.

[blueberryman]

its still art just not the stuff on the radio or tv

[VvAnarchangelvV]

"Think of (your duty to bear an heir for) England", a phrase which probably descended through the royal line, for whom it had the most relevance. Compare to the "crime of happiness" - as much as I would prefer sex to be presented as an inherently good thing, rather than a dark temptation to lure sinners in with so they will spend their money, I still take Annabella's England over Victoria's every time.

"Gun in my back" is a not-so-veiled reference to a penis. Seriously, how did you miss that?

[VvAnarchangelvV]

Imagine (just for one second?) people who hated everything England stood for and had become and were bound and determined to take it in another, any other, direction; would not the phrase 'Lie back and think of England', previously a command to perform a duty, have a completely different and therefore ironic meaning to them?

[VvAnarchangelvV]

It is hardly surprising that no one here understands this song and all are shocked by it; the producers did not really care if their audience understood it and wanted them to be shocked.

Putting aside for the moment whether it is a good idea to scare the straights, they accomplished what they set out to do.