![]() Every single shot that we did was different. We tried that technique once before for an American artist and it didn't work as well because it was too extreme. We designed the idea of the video for that piece of software. In other words, it was an automated edit process because we knew vaguely how it would work. In a Songfacts interview with Kevin Godley, he explained: "We had a number of different situations going on throughout the song from lots of cameras, and then we ran it through this piece of software and told it to cut between takes one to six all the way through, two frames each. They shot the footage first, then ran it through the switcher to achieve the effect. For "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" they got their hands on a Grass Valley switcher with a piece of software that could cut back and forth between sources at two-frame intervals. The team was always trying new techniques in an effort to create something eye-catching and different. The video was one of the many memorable Godley & Creme productions of the '80s some of their other videos include " Rockit" by Herbie Hancock and " Only Time Will Tell" by Asia. It was actually banned in the UK, because some BBC guys said that that particular frame rate could cause epileptic seizures in people." The video that everybody was in love with around that time was Peter Gabriel's ' Sledgehammer,' anything with a bit of stop-frame in it was cool. And I think that really works in that video. ![]() I remember when we did the video with Kevin Godley and Lol Crème, they thought I should be singing straight to camera in a very intense way and very serious way with this pretty lighthearted song. We weren't super serious about 'this is an amazing song that's gonna change your life.' It is just sort of like, get out there, have a great time, don't worry too much. Regarding the video, Hues explained: "It was delivering a song that's essentially very upbeat and intentionally amusing. If the song is about musical purity, the video is the opposite, creating a dissonance that left some viewers literally sick. This song is also known for its spasmodic video, which is full of extremely quick cuts between similar images. And we pretty consciously chose to have a proper hit record and sort of establish ourselves." Or you can go and have a hit record, which is what the label always wants from you. And after To Live and Die in LA we did have a choice facing us, which is, Okay you can do more movies, you can be sort of arty if you want, but you won't necessarily get support for that. But things obviously change as people hear the songs and see certain potentials in it. And I just wanted it to have that kind of weird Disney-esque sort of atmosphere. The original demo we recorded in Nick's flat in London around Christmas time I think one Monday, because it had all these sort of like sleigh bells and stuff on it. And then when we got in the studio with Peter Wolf, he was like, 'This is an amazing dance hit, you rock the tempo, you've got to really deliver what the title suggests.' When we came up with the original line, I then went away and wrote with a 'Hey Jude' style ballad around it, trying to be ironic. On the Just My Show podcast with Eric Greenberg, Hues explained: "Most of the time we write separately, but 'Everybody Have Fun Tonight' is actually quite a collaborative song. Geils Band - this Peter Wolf is a composer from Vienna), who also got a writing credit on the song. It was produced by Peter Wolf (not the lead singer of The J. Riley, Gordon StrozierLyrics powered by song was conceived as a ballad by Wang Chung's Jack Hues and Nick Feldman, which is how it appears on the original demo. It′s getting late, while are you still here, girl Have you made up your mind, you wanna make love tonight I want you to hold me, I want to be for real, girl Please tonight Don't want you to go, ′cause I don't feel like bein' lonely, no Not tonight, honey, not tonight You′re so scared, ′cause I can feel your heartbeat It's so fast Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh Girl, tonight Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh Girl, tonight You′re probably thinking you're gonna be a woman After all of this Let me tell you, you′re more woman than I ever seen Girl, tonight I want your lips, I even want your tongue, love Come give it to me, come give it to me Take your time, but don't you take too long, girl Please tonight Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh Girl, tonight Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh Tonight You′re so wet, you can barely wait, girl But see it's alright, honey, it's alright It′s so dark, but I don′t even care, girl I know where to go, I know what to do You're the heart and I am the arrow, girl Let me shoot you, uhh And don′t you worry about a damn thing, girl, no
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