Singer Jon Bon Jovi recently talked to SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen where he said that he feels embarrassed by the music video for “Runaway”, a video Jovi thinks to be particularly bad.
He said:
“We were smart enough by the third album, it took three albums to figure out just promote the live show with a video, so by ”You Give Love a Bad Name,” ”Livin’ On A Prayer,” ”Wanted Dead Or Alive,” those are really just performance videos and that’s when we realized this is all that matters. […]
“When I think back that ”Runaway” …. when we made a video, ‘Wait a minute, I just learned to play the guitar and write a song. You want me to be a filmmaker? What the hell do I know!’
“I fell for it, hook, line, and sinker, and the stupid record company with the stupid video director who says Fahrenheit 451 [when the album was 7800 Fahrenheit] or whatever with his niece starring in the video, it’s like Jesus God. You want to embarrass me? Tie me to a chair and make me watch videos from my first two albums.
“Horrible. Horrible. And the second album, same kind of thing, and then by the third album we were like, ‘Wait a minute. Let us just film us performing,’ and boom. Everything changed.”
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It’s a learning experience.. it was the 80’s, so many were done like Bon Jovi’s. Back then they didn’t seem so cheesy. They are certainly fun to watch.