The video for Katy Perry's Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) is reported to be an “80s” theme, but really there are several elements that were not from the 80s, but the 21st Century.
It's very much one tribute to the John Hughes movie Pretty In Pink, starring Molly Ringwald and members of The Brat Pack. All of whom are about the same age as this blogger.
The video starts with Katy using a laptop and getting on the internet to check her profile page - that's so not 80s. In the 80s, we didn't have laptops and the Internet. We had big, heavy clunky personal computers, that cost thousands of dollars to buy. My Apple Macintoch II cost over $7,000 back in 1989.
Internet access? That wasn't even in the conversation.
The high school setting is as much today as the 80s. For it to be an 80s video, it needed scenes of boys and girls dancing together, and wearing watches. In the video, boys and girls are largely separate and dance in space - that's not an 80s habit. There's just one scene where a boy and girl dance together.
If the video reflected the 80s, it would have been as much in the style of Dick Clark's American Bandstand or Don Cornelius Soul Train, as anything else. The part where the dancers hop up and down and watch while Katy Perry is dancing and the other cast members dance in the middle should have been done in the form of a "Soul Train" line - that's very 80s.
But with all that, one thing's for sure: Katy Perry's legs are timeless.
Stay tuned.
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