They bundled me up and shoved me into an emergency-wash shower. Wish Foley: If you look closely, you can see me shivering. She was in cold water on an air-conditioned stage for quite some time, and never said anything. I asked for the water in the teacup to be warm, and it wasn’t. Jeff Stein: The doughnut was a giant inner tube. Jeff Stein: We built a giant teacup out of an aboveground pool. She was also in the movie, Harper Valley P.T.A. It’s funny that after this video, Foley went on to work on Disney productions such as Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Hercules (1997). She says she had been the original Joanie (Happy Days), but that after they shot the pilot, she was told that she looked too much like Cindy Brady. She had done a bunch of commercials along with some TV work. And here I am, dressed up like Alice in Wonderland. It was kind of gross they would stand in front of a mirror and do their “come hither” look. They were models, in skimpy leather outfits with short skirts. Wish Foley: When I went to the audition, there were fifteen or twenty girls coming in at the same time. I don’t want to copy the entire section on this video, so here are the highlights: But we knew while we were doing it how shit-hot it was. Even for musicians, those were challenging hours. It was a two-day shoot, and each day was fourteen hours, way into the night. Everything that’s big was big, and everything that’s small was small. Tom Petty: We didn’t use any special effects. You know, like in Alice in Wonderland.” And I said, “That’s it. Here’s the genesis of the video according to Tom Petty:ĭave Stewart and I wrote and produced “Don’t Come Around Here No More.” We were talking about the video while we were in the studio, and he said, “I’ve always wanted to be the guy sitting on a mushroom with long nails and a hookah. Oh, right, that happens.Īnyhow, lets talk about the video, including some bits from Alice herself, Wish Foley (Louise Foley). I’m really glad we live in a time when music videos aren’t taken down from YouTube for explicit content. At least with Hot For Teacher you could make the reasonable argument that while harmless entertainment, it should be aired when a six-year-old isn’t likely to stumble across it. You got me as to what bothered them with We’re Not Gonna Take It, considering it’s a song about civil rights and standing up for what you believe in. And that is how the Commerce Committee of the 99th Congress of the United States, like millions of other Americans, watched “Hot for Teacher” and Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It” when they should have been working. In September 1985, Senator John Danforth, also married to a PMRC member, convened a congressional hearing to discuss the excesses of rock music in the age of cable TV. I have feeling the authors of the book think this is ridiculous. On another occasion, Gore and her six year old saw Tom Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” video–some other parent, having gone through the “Hot for Teacher” incident, might have learned a lesson and banished MTV from the home–and the girl was “disturbed,” Gore said, “because the last scene showed turning into a cake and being sliced up. Although it sounds like it was Sarah LaFon Gore Maiani judging by her age when she saw the two videos. Frank Zappa having testified at the congressional hearings over this stuff. She and Tipper even played on a Diva Zappa comedy single. I would love to know if that was Kristin Gore considering she went on to have a career in comedy. Mom, why is the teacher taking off her clothes? According to the book, her daughter said the following: The authors start off by talking about Tipper and her daughter’s experience watching Hot For Teacher. It may not look like one that would, but it did.Īt the beginning of the book, I Want My MTV, there’s a whole chapter about the issue. It’s about time I got to a music video that lead to the PMRC.
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