When Michael Stipe wrote this song, it is said he was inspired by the over-the-top style of the legendary New York City band The New York Dolls. The song is fuzzy and glam-pop inspired....
...but can we talk about the video for a second? Michael Stipe famously hated to lip-sync his songs for videos, and he was pretty bad at it. So, for this video, he set it at a Japanese karaoke bar and had other people do the lip-sync for him!
I don't like posting stuff from Top of the Pops, because that show has a famous policy against live performance, instead forcing artists to lip-sync. They aren't usually that fun. But combine that with how terrible Michael Stipe is at lip-syncing, mostly because he hates it... well, yeah, it's entertaining this time.
Contrast this with live R.E.M., who are clearly enjoying the performance more....
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