In 1984 Billy Ocean was sentenced to life inside the Phantom
Zone for love crimes. Specifically for making all other men look really lame in
front of women. He was also dressed like Han Solo.
Shinning through his pyramid portal Billy entertains a vast
collection of aliens as they sit around their desert cave cantina.
I use the word "cantina" for the exact reason you
think. It's 1984 and Billy and his label obviously thought they should cash in
on some of that Star Wars money, with a weird Superman II reference.
Billy is floating through space in his prism prison (say
that six times fast) and he comes to a
sandy planet floating above a Lizard Man riding along a beach on his horse .
Space horse?
The Lizard Man enters a cave as the glowing prism prison follows
him in and sits in the middle of a SciFi cantina. There's even a tall hooded
figure with glowing eyes. Is it a Jawa with gigantism or two Jawa's one on the
other's shoulders so they look tall enough to drink? I like to think the second.
Now Lizard Man is getting really into Billy's awesome tune.
He's looking around and feeling enriched with dance fever, he spots a stunning
dog nosed girl with pink hair and starts to dance.
He strolls through the bar toward her. Past a robot with a
TV for a head and Slimmer from Ghost Busters, before he died and became a ghost.
He doesn't glow and we all know there was no way slimmer was once human, he had
to have been an alien ghost. Right?
Anyway. Lizard Man being the dashing hero and "loverboy"
that he is, shoots first and asks questions later. Taking out Dog Girl's,
husband, owner, pimp, guy and some innocent bystander. Now at first you're
thinking "Oh he's rescuing her." However she clearly does not want to
go with Lizard Man and so he grabs her by the wrist and leads that girl back
out to the desert.
Straight up murder!
Then as Billy hops around singing smoothly, three normal sized rip off Jawas sing "Lover, Lover" as backing vocals
to Billy. Who by the way, is still in the Phantom Zone but now floating above them outside the
cantina.
Once outside the Cantina, Dog Girl seems a bit more accepting
of her new circumstances and hops on the
horse and rides off into the sunset with Lizard Man.
The last shot is lizard man roaring into the camera clearly
having either eaten or mated or both with Dog Girl.
I loved this video. It sets up a clear story, it's fun and
entertaining and has absolutely nothing to do with the song. In anyway what so
ever. The "Lover Boy" depicted has to be Billy Ocean himself because
Lizard Man is a straight up murderer and abductor. The song is great. It's
catchy and upbeat, you can dance to it or you can get down to it. Props to
Billy Ocean and also the props, puppetry and FX people, because this was
awesome. Well the Jawas were clearly people on their knees in long gowns but
some of the aliens looked awesome.
"Lover, Lover"
Later that year Captain Kirk rescued Billy Ocean from his prism
prison (say that six times fast) and
they fought over some green skinned women.
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