INXS - Need You Tonight (Official Music Video)
INXS - Mediate (Official Music Video)
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Need You Tonight / Mediate combines two songs, just as the 12-inch and album versions do. The first segment mixes live action and different kinds of animation, while the second is a tribute to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." The members flip cue cards with words from the song, followed by a Kirk Pengilly saxophone solo. Beneath the lyric "a special date" in the "Mediate" portion, its cue card reads "9-8-1945." This refers to the date 9 August 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. As the date is in the Australian format, with the day first and month second, American observers sometimes confuse the date for 8 September 1945. The video won five MTV Video Music Awards including Video of The Year and was ranked at number twenty-one on MTV's countdown of the 100 greatest videos of all time. "Mediate" was parodied in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "UHF" and The Treble's "No Secrets (There For You)" videos. |