Annie Lennox - Keep Young and Beautiful

Music video by Annie Lennox performing Keep Young and Beautiful. (C) 1992 Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH

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[silentalarmactivated]

This is absolutely brilliant. Amazing how she can make a feminist statement about this song without changing a word.

[ssotelo]

Funny that Justin Bieber should be staring at me on the left side for this song.

[quackolako]

@silentalarmactivated I kinda think that this song was supposed to be sarcastic in the first place... But it is nice to see that cleverly written old songs are still relevant in today's society.

[flash2ade]

sounds like a very old sond <3



[geoffreystuck75]

and how the hell did eddie cantor give sammy davis jr his start? stupid stupid stupid statement

[geoffreystuck75]

yes this is a version of eddie cantor (from roman scandles... with lucille ball's debut). annie does a wonderful ironic version of this... eddie did this in blackface and there is no excuse for that... so all you who don't know 20th centurey history and think it is okay... screw you... not the actors' fault at the time, necessarily. 

[49mrjd]

could have done wiyhout the bloody wings

[erniemanguy]

@SouthernNYCga Singers like Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson and Fred Astaire who did movies blackface, helped the black entertainers of the time by using them in their movies when others would not. Cantor gave Sammy Davis Jr. his start in show business. In the 1800s it was stereotyping for sure. But in the 30s and 40s movies it was used for a completely different reason. Fred Astaire paid tribute to (Bill Bojangles) Robinson in the movie Swing Time in blackface for example.

[SouthernNYCga]

@erniemanguy Um, you need to read your history. Blackface was not a tribute to black singers of the time. Blackface was used because theatre companies did not want to hire blacks. They were barred from the theatre, and it was also used to mock black people.

[erniemanguy]

The song is from the 1930s Eddie Cantor musical called Roman Scandals. Annie does an excellent cover version. Search the song on YouTube and check out the original Eddie Cantor version because it is excellent also. The song was written by Harry Warren. Eddie sings in in blackface so that will go people something else to gripe and moan about. Knowledgeable people understand blackface was a tribute to the great black singers of the time, not a racist act. Read, learn, and then talk.

[Zanetabo]

love the song but can it be the worst video ever??? makes no senc