Repressed Video
Some videos should never be watched again, but we show them to you anyway.
The year was 1991 and I was in first grade. I went to school in an extremely rural area; our playground was a massive expanse of grass and decrepit swing sets. Instead of waiting in line for the good teeter-totters, my friend and I decided that we would choreograph a dance to a song we had both heard on the radio.
As we broke it down on the playground, singing the song at the top of our lungs, the recess teacher came by and sternly reprimanded us for such filthy language. We just figured she was very out of touch with what was cool and continued our jam session until an 2nd grader came by and asked us why we were singing about "S-E-X."
The song was "I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd. Completely oblivious to the true meaning of the words we were shouting, my little friend and I had been doing the Urkle Dance to a really horribly written ode to awkward intimate propositions. Talk about looking like hussies. In high school, I briefly dated the boy who asked us why we were singing about "S-E-X," and I couldn't help but think he was subconsciously attracted to me because I sang raunchy songs on the playground when I was little.
You remember Color Me Badd, right? You know, the boy band with bizarro Kenny G, bizarro George Michael (of Wham fame, not from the Bluth dynasty), the long lost third member of Milli Vanilla and a fatter version of Vanilla Ice with a 5 o'clock shadow. They wanted to sex you up by crooning in whispery, awful falsettos.
Color Me Badd achieved moderate fame with their not-so-subtle lyrical seduction, and then had one more crappy attempt at a love song called "I Adore (Mi Amor)," which was mostly ignored by the public, and rightfully so. The novelty of "I Wanna Sex You Up" quickly vanished, as did Color Me Badd.
This video is probably one of the worst I’ve seen. Just watch these weak dance moves! My friend and I were choreographing things better than that on the playground. Don't even get me started on the ill-fitting suits.
Posted by Justine Boney on Feb 08, 2008 @ 12:00 am
