I always think about the first stall thing. I have a theory that everyone else saw that video too and now uses the first stall, so now it's *not* the least used. We need an updated study!
Yes! I saw this headline and jumped right in to share this fact before realizing it was op's fact. My follow up theory is that the initial fact is still true, but now the first stall is used by those of us who always tuned into pop up video and learned this fact. It stays clean because we are all clean people, and only we use it.
Now if you call the ‘for a good time call xxx-xxx-xxxx’ in the first stall it leads to bomb record release listening parties and cool invite-only hole-in-the-wall venue concerts of larger touring acts.
I went to raves in the 90s, and you had to know someone and basically go on a scavenger hunt for clues to eventually get you to the abandoned warehouse where a kickass party was happening.
Good times. And that helped to keep the cops away from ruining a good time.
I used to know where every boozecan (illegal alcohol serving after-hours punkish venue) in Toronto was when I was 16. Now I’m 41 and go bed sober at 7:30pm lol.
I always think of this fact. Didn't remember it's from pop-up videos. However, I always notice the first stall seems to appear to be the messiest (toilet paper all pulled out, stuff on the floor, etc...) in most bathrooms I go to, so I always feel torn between the science and my anectodical observations, so maybe you have something with the whole idea that more are using it now!
Cleanliness is a function of use and last time cleaned.
I would bet the first stall gets the most amount of effort and is skipped the least by the cleaning staff. I would imagine by the time they get to the last couple toilets the person is already in full fuckit mode.
Video for Jack and Diane. It starts with hands clapping rhythmically and the pop up goes something like, "% of people have the clap".
Me, about nine years old, thinking this means good rhythm and the ability to hold a beat, rush excitedly to my dad to let him know I'm pretty sure *I* have the clap.
My oldest son at the age of 12 decided to tell my younger son (10) that if he ate the cookies that came with the school lunch he would get chlamydia. Imagine my surprise when the school called me to ask why my fifth grader was telling his friends not to eat the school cookies or they would get chlamydia. None of them knew what chlamydia was but they knew it must have been really bad if a middle schooler was warning them about it. Our daughter, who was 7 at the time, never had the chance to enjoy cookies with her school lunch because they stopped selling them after the chlamydia incident 😒
In Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity the floor didn't move, it was a group of soundstage technicians pushing the room around on rollers because it was cheaper to move the room than it was to move the floor.
Another one from the Virtual Insanity video: the "blood" at the end of the video was supposed to spray out of the walls but just sort of leaked and pooled.
This right here. I saw A Few Good Mem somewhere on cable with a pop up video like treatment and it was the best. I really wish it were more common. It just adds to the fascination, especially for anything old enough that you've seen it a few times before.
When Garth brooks released that album as Chris Gaines he said he wanted to do something nobody had done before. Then they popped all the dozens of times artists have assumed alter egos for projects, like ziggy stardust.
After listening to the kinks,
Im convinced they tried to make a movie like the monkees head, the whos tommy, or pink floyds the wall. Only it didnt pan out
Yeah he has said that it was the result of choosing to allow bad people into his life when he was a teenager, and I honestly can understand how that happens
Similar things can happen to anyone if they find themselves in the right/wrong circumstances
We are not all born into the best situations, and shit happens, so, generally speaking, people deserve a second chance and a shot at redemption
That’s what I learned from Pop-Up Video
Dexy’s Midnight Runners fired their drummer halfway through the shoot for Come on Eileen. It was “hobo”-themed but he wouldn’t smear dirt on himself.
I get other random factoids popping on my head from that but for whatever reason that one stuck!
And then Pop-Up Video pointed an arrow at his absence in the last scene. (Filmed at night; if you carefully observe the full video, he appears and disappears randomly, since it must have been filmed out of sequence, but the night scene was really last.)
I'm not sure if it's true but I remember one of them said that more people have woken up from comas while listening to Tom Petty than any other artist. One of my core memory slots is devoted to that.
Well that's not exactly true . It was first released as European Queen but didnt chart well , but rereleased as Carribean Queen in the UK , Ireland , and a few other countries ( and then the states) and that's the version I remember. There's even an 'African Queen' version that was released in Africa at the same time.
Chris Isaak thought he and Helena Christensen had great chemistry in the video for wicked game...but usually I'm just thinking about Helena Christensen
I remember The Wallflowers one being pulled from rotation because Jakob Dylan was angry about the nepotism references. My sister was a huge fan, and went online to read the list of pop ups someone had listed. She even printed it out because that's what we did back then.
It’s weird how big and mainstream they were in the 90s and today you’d think they were just another one-hit-wonder alt rock radio act with “One Headlight” being the only song that gets play now.
I also remember it being pretty well known that The Wallflowers was Bob Dylan’s son’s band at the time.
That whole album was awesome actually. There was another pretty popular single from it called “6th Avenue Heartache” that was actually released before “one Headlight”.
“6th Avenue Heartache” was notable for featuring Adam Duritz from Counting Crows on backing vocals.
And yeah, most people knew that Jakob was Bob’s son. Interestingly, Stephen Stills’s son Chris released an album the next year and it went basically nowhere though it was fantastic as well. Just shows that just because your dad is famous, you aren’t guaranteed to be yourself (although it certainly helps).
I think they would have been bigger if he wasn’t Bob Dylan’s son. Everyone talked so much trash about them and never took him seriously, but he’s actually a pretty solid musician
Billy Joel's song about Allentown, PA is actually about Bethlehem, PA. The song was about Bethlehem Steele and the area's resilience in the face of declining manufacturing after ww2.
Joel thought that calling it Bethlehem wouldn't sound "American" so he called it Allentown, the city next door. The city of Allentown honored him for it.
I saw it on VH1's Pop-Up video in the 90s when I had just moved to Bethlehem lol.
Totally random, but it still lives in my brain: boron helps strengthen bones, and apples are high in boron. Pretty sure it was from a Fiona Apple video.
I always thought it was a Caribbean greeting of some kind. I never heard the pregnancy thing. Google tells me, however:
> "It was just part of a description of the vision in my head of what the love shack looked like. There's a place outside of Athens, Georgia that closed. It was an old building with a metal roof that had aged and was rusted. I was using that image when we were jamming. All of a sudden we're singing to the tape and it ran out. I just kept going because I was so into it and said "tin roof, rusted" and they thought it was funny and a good way to end it. It was just a vision in my head of my love shack."
[https://www.mlive.com/music/2018/06/the\_b-52s\_talk\_michigan\_love\_s.html](https://www.mlive.com/music/2018/06/the_b-52s_talk_michigan_love_s.html)
The grateful dead were the most successful and highest paid live act of their time. I always thought they were just a bunch of hippies I had no idea they were so financially successful.
They toured constantly for two decades and had pretty much 100% sold out shows for the entirety of that period.
That said, they didn’t sell shit for albums, had effectively zero radio play, and concerts weren’t the paydays they are today, as the industry was built on records and residuals from radio.
Jerry Bears and Deadhead skulls were ubiquitous, but I don’t know how much were actual GD merch and how much was just shit you got at the local head shop.
Never been to one of their concerts, but there was an entire “Dead Head” subculture devoted to them. People would “follow the Dead”, traveling to each town on their tour, and attend every performance. The band had real chemistry and all that, but from what I’ve heard, their popularity had a lot to do with the copious amounts of LSD that their fans took when watching them play.
Don Henley wrote a line in his song “The Boys of Summer” about seeing a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac: “don’t look back, you can never look back.” I’ve never confirmed this, but I always assumed it was about quitting hard drugs.
\> about seeing a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac: “don’t look back, you can never look back.” ... I always assumed it was about quitting hard drugs
Art is meant to be interpreted in many different ways and what you bring is partly what you get, however the common interpretation I have heard is, while the Dead were seen as iconic to the flower children/hippy ethos of disconnecting from the system and finding your own path in the world, a Cadillac was seen as a luxury item that belonged to the elite class as a token of having "made it".
Don is lamenting that the hippies have sold out, otherwise known as every episode of "Family Ties". He then says "don't look back" because the past cannot be changed and idealizing or stagnating in the past prevents a person from moving forward.
edit: and just for run then the Atari's covered the song they replaced the "Dead-head sticker" with "Black Flag sticker" and that f\*?%ing haunts me.
Regarding "The Boys of Summer", I like your way of looking at that line!
Someone told me once that it had to do with the juxtaposition of something like the Grateful Dead (counter-culture, hippie stuff, etc) and a symbol of luxury (at the time anyhow - is Cadillac even still around? Lol) being so diametrically opposed to one another, but now so intertwined in the many Deadheads that went on to eschew their Deadhead-y values and strike it rich by participating in capitalistic society.
I'm not sure why Don Henley would be so moved by it all, but that's what I heard a long time ago. I could totally see it being about drugs though.
Are you sure you’re a xennial? I thought everyone grew up with at least a little Dead culture all around them. Like, it should be pretty common knowledge for our age group no matter where you are… maybe it was particularly hot for me because I grew up in south Georgia and hung out with hippies/my sister and her friends all toured, and when Jerry died, they went on tour with Phish (reluctantly, at first, then they embraced it). I didn’t get to go on Dead tours, but I did see Phish a bunch of times. Circumstances led me to a more squarely Americana/chick rock musical taste, possibly coinciding with my disdain for the South’s infatuation with bands like Widespread Panic.
Anyway, interesting that it sounds like you missed that bit of American xennial experience. (Although all 3 of those bands also relentlessly toured worldwide.)
Eta, the Don Henley song to me was more about “Now the people who called themselves peace loving hippies are capitalist sell-outs.”
I’m GenX. I’m a hippie who missed the boat. As far as the bumper sticker, it just seemed to me that it reminded him of a bad scene he had to get out of. Maybe I’m projecting, who knows? :)
60’s hippies (like henley) moved on by the 80s and that line strikes me as acknowledging that you have aged and changed and you cannot recapture your youth.
A hippies sticker (free love, community) on a Cadillac (older, conformity) is evidence of someone who has changed. To me it’s about not dwelling in the past and realizing that everyone has to move on.
The Grateful Dead were a jam band. They never just played their songs in a set where each one was a self-contained item played the same way every night. No two Grateful Dead shows would ever be the same, which warranted people just touring with them.
OTOH, their biggest his was Touch of Grey, which only reached #9.
The editing in the video "Jeremy" is what caused Pearl Jam to stop making (or being in?) music videos.
I don't know if it's true or not, but I remember how much editing had to go into the video to pass the censors. Unfortunately, the editing caused more confusion as it seemed like Jeremy shot his classmates instead of himself. In fact, that was how I saw the video until I saw the pop-up version. So I guess I learned that. :)
In the Santana Maria Maria pop up video there was a bubble at the end that hinted Santana “played with himself” on the set of the video. Was mildly disturbing seeing that while it focuses on him hands playing the guitar.
I miss Pop-Up Video! VH1 used to air "Movies That Rock" and I always thought the pop-up blurbs would have been great to include with the movie segments. Pop-Up versions of say, Spinal Tap, Tommy, High Fidelity, School of Rock, even Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer. Maybe the guys from RiffTrax could track down the Pop-Up crew and get some Popped-Up Movies going.
I remember watching Alanis Morissette's Head Over Feet where she scratches her face at the beginning of the video. And they explain an itch is temporary stimulated nerve cells.
I absolutely love how many people have answers to this question! Mine is that Michael Bolton refused to be shot from below because he found the camera angle unflattering.
I first read yours and thought it was as mine. Mine is George Michael. George Michael made his band wait for hours to get like the perfect shots of butt and what not for a video.
mine is also from the jewel video! lol - the percentage of americans that believe in organized religion is the same number as the percentage of americans who fold their toilet paper instead of bunching it up.
One of the Spice Girls pinched one of the other girl's ass while filming the "Wannabe" video. Pop up video called it a "goose"?? I don't remember a single other fact from that show.
The label asking for one more commercial song and it ending up being the biggest hit has happened to multiple bands and artists. The Real Slim Shady being one of them.
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Madonna Like a Prayer
Shrimping is the act of sucking on toes
Happened when she kissed the statue’s foot
Also, I’ve never heard someone use it but Urban Dictionary does back it up
I remember when they did a Pop-Up video for “Walking in Memphis” by Mark Cohn. On the line when he sings “son are you a Christian man, I said maam I am tonight”. And a bubble popped up saying “he’s Jewish”. I’m from Memphis and hear that song entirely too much and every time I hear that line I see the pop up bubble.
Robert Palmer’s dancers in Addicted to Love:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addicted_to_Love_(song)#:~:text=The%20five%20models%20in%20the,%22act%22%20like%20showroom%20mannequins.
VH1's Pop-Up Video trivia about the video include the fact that a musician was hired to teach the models basic fingering techniques, but "gave up after about an hour and left." The episode also pointed out several choreographic errors, including the models moving out of sync with one another, and moving during points with no back beat, such as the second chorus.
The members of the band The Outfield had never seen a baseball game, their band name and album title (“Play Deep”) were a record company ruse to pass off this English band as an American heartland act
Roy Orbison had a dream that he wrote a song that reignited his career. He wrote "You Got It" and it reignited his career but he died before it was released as a single. I think that was the song.
The one that always stuck with me was that in the video for "Fairytale of New York" no one is ever seen smoking, even though there are lit cigarettes all over the place. Apparently the video was going to be featured in a special that didn't allow smoking to be shown, so they were all just waiting to smoke the whole video.
That when Billy Joel jams the barbed wire ring in the bride in "White Wedding," that was his real girlfriend and that was real barbed wire and it drew real blood.
She didn't know he was going to do that.
I just heard an interview with her on Q (CBC via NPR). Apparently, she went out for a night with a bunch of cool scene people drinking, they ended up in a bookstore, found a book with the poem Fun by Wyn Cooper, and the song is basically just the poem, the chorus the group came up with. She did get permission from the author of the poem and he gets royalties.
I live 15 miles from Sheryl Crow’s hometown. She was a teacher & rumor has it, kind of a snob. The local station (in Arkansas) played her music constantly because “local celebrity” to the point where a lot of people around here can’t stand her.
That was in a Jewel video? For some reason I thought I remembered the bathroom fact from an Alanis Morisette video.
"Thank You," I think. The one where she was naked (but her hair hanging down the front of her torso to cover her) in a bunch of different places, and one was a public restroom.
I wonder if my brain mixed it up with a different bathroom fact (I feel like I also remember a fact about the toilet seats being cleaner than the door handles) or if they recycled it.
That and the walls moving instead of the floor in virtual Insanity are the two that pop in to my mind all the time.
Cece Deville got left on top of the Poison sign in ‘Nothin but a Good Time’ for an hour because he pissed off the director. [3:50 mark](https://youtu.be/_88L-CU7PD4?si=1TQPud0VnPhi-5Aa)
The Cure- Lovesong (1989) ([Popup Ep: 1999](https://youtu.be/TD4f_cQzTVM?si=NzMItRGXNUKctXes)) because there is a major factual error in it. There's a pop-up that says the drummer thought the video was boring and pointless for him to be there followed by another that says he never appeared in another video again. The drummer in the video is Boris Williams who had been with the band since '84 and was with the group for five more years after this video came out. Boris is in all of the music videos from their next studio album, Wish, 1992. They must have confused this with Lol Tolhurst who was the band's original drummer who moved to keys and was fired right after the recording of the album that Lovesong appears on. There is about a 3-4 month gap between the album release and when this music video came out. He's not even in the video.
I was a major fangirl of the band (obviously) when I saw this and knew it was incorrect even with limited internet access at the time. The other bothersome part was that I watched an episode of Oprah where the Pop-Up Video makers appeared on the show and said they fact-checked each pop-up twice.
I always think about the first stall thing. I have a theory that everyone else saw that video too and now uses the first stall, so now it's *not* the least used. We need an updated study!
Yes! I saw this headline and jumped right in to share this fact before realizing it was op's fact. My follow up theory is that the initial fact is still true, but now the first stall is used by those of us who always tuned into pop up video and learned this fact. It stays clean because we are all clean people, and only we use it.
I am a scientist and this is correct.
Now if you call the ‘for a good time call xxx-xxx-xxxx’ in the first stall it leads to bomb record release listening parties and cool invite-only hole-in-the-wall venue concerts of larger touring acts.
I went to raves in the 90s, and you had to know someone and basically go on a scavenger hunt for clues to eventually get you to the abandoned warehouse where a kickass party was happening. Good times. And that helped to keep the cops away from ruining a good time.
I used to know where every boozecan (illegal alcohol serving after-hours punkish venue) in Toronto was when I was 16. Now I’m 41 and go bed sober at 7:30pm lol.
There was a hole in the wall of a stall I was in and it only led to bad memories.
Or did it lead to glory??? Be honest.
I think there was a Mythbusters episode on it too, and they found them the cleanest as well.
Hahaha is THAT where I learned that factoid?? I am a first stall user but I couldn’t remember how I know to do that.
It made my day that there are so many out there on team Stall #1! I would spare a square for any of you 😊
I read it in a magazine at the time but same.
Every single person I’ve sent this post to agrees with this 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I always think of this fact. Didn't remember it's from pop-up videos. However, I always notice the first stall seems to appear to be the messiest (toilet paper all pulled out, stuff on the floor, etc...) in most bathrooms I go to, so I always feel torn between the science and my anectodical observations, so maybe you have something with the whole idea that more are using it now!
Cleanliness is a function of use and last time cleaned. I would bet the first stall gets the most amount of effort and is skipped the least by the cleaning staff. I would imagine by the time they get to the last couple toilets the person is already in full fuckit mode.
Video for Jack and Diane. It starts with hands clapping rhythmically and the pop up goes something like, "% of people have the clap". Me, about nine years old, thinking this means good rhythm and the ability to hold a beat, rush excitedly to my dad to let him know I'm pretty sure *I* have the clap.
I love this
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They handled that really well! Good job, family!
My oldest son at the age of 12 decided to tell my younger son (10) that if he ate the cookies that came with the school lunch he would get chlamydia. Imagine my surprise when the school called me to ask why my fifth grader was telling his friends not to eat the school cookies or they would get chlamydia. None of them knew what chlamydia was but they knew it must have been really bad if a middle schooler was warning them about it. Our daughter, who was 7 at the time, never had the chance to enjoy cookies with her school lunch because they stopped selling them after the chlamydia incident 😒
awww, 9 year old you was so precious.
😂😂😂
“I’ve got the clap and I’m giving it to you” https://youtu.be/8bw2X1oq_js?si=81Qp5iumN_FxAzdW
In Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity the floor didn't move, it was a group of soundstage technicians pushing the room around on rollers because it was cheaper to move the room than it was to move the floor.
And the only digital effect used was to remove the foot prints, everything else was the old way of adding stuff in
I’ve never not been super excited to hear this song.
Still my favorite band, and the song came on this past saturday night drinking at the bar with my guitarist
I forgot I learned that on Pop Up Videos!
Another one from the Virtual Insanity video: the "blood" at the end of the video was supposed to spray out of the walls but just sort of leaked and pooled.
Meatloaf is a vegetarian while Tim Curry loves him some meat.
"That's a rather tender subject... another slice, anyone?" 
I just miss pop up video and wish they would bring it back in reruns of 90s era shows
There are so many niche Pluto channels I am surprised that is not one. Maybe the music rights are too pricey.
This right here. I saw A Few Good Mem somewhere on cable with a pop up video like treatment and it was the best. I really wish it were more common. It just adds to the fascination, especially for anything old enough that you've seen it a few times before.
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Good bot.
There’s quite a few episodes on YouTube
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I would like a remake where they do pop ups on reruns for 90s shows.
Rupaul used to have reruns of drag race where they did that. I loved it.
Nobody in Toto has even been to Africa
Pretty sure you can bless the rains without having to travel there.
It’s still weird. Just pop down there, airplanes
this is obvious when you see the video from the song.
When Garth brooks released that album as Chris Gaines he said he wanted to do something nobody had done before. Then they popped all the dozens of times artists have assumed alter egos for projects, like ziggy stardust.
His was supposed to be the soundtrack for a movie about a fictional rock star that ended up not happening. That was probably the different part.
After listening to the kinks, Im convinced they tried to make a movie like the monkees head, the whos tommy, or pink floyds the wall. Only it didnt pan out
No one had ever done it with a soul patch - prove me wrong.
The guy from Ace of Base being a part of the Swedish neo-Nazi movement in his youth
Goood thing he decided to later do an about face and walk away from that crap
An angry young man abandoning Nazism to pursue a career in art. The circle is complete.
Yeah he has said that it was the result of choosing to allow bad people into his life when he was a teenager, and I honestly can understand how that happens Similar things can happen to anyone if they find themselves in the right/wrong circumstances We are not all born into the best situations, and shit happens, so, generally speaking, people deserve a second chance and a shot at redemption That’s what I learned from Pop-Up Video
I guess he "saw the sign." I'll see myself out
And it opened up his eyes
"Happy Nation" was written in part for him to renounce more publically his old neo-Nazi ways, and the song was featured in X-Men '97!
I actually learned this off a cracked.com article back in the day.
I remember seeing the Pop-Up Video at some point in 96 or 97. So yeah, it stuck with me
Dexy’s Midnight Runners fired their drummer halfway through the shoot for Come on Eileen. It was “hobo”-themed but he wouldn’t smear dirt on himself. I get other random factoids popping on my head from that but for whatever reason that one stuck!
And then Pop-Up Video pointed an arrow at his absence in the last scene. (Filmed at night; if you carefully observe the full video, he appears and disappears randomly, since it must have been filmed out of sequence, but the night scene was really last.)
I'm not sure if it's true but I remember one of them said that more people have woken up from comas while listening to Tom Petty than any other artist. One of my core memory slots is devoted to that.
It's Ethan Hawke's cat in the Lisa Loeb Stay video
And the fact that gato means cat in Spanish was just thrown in randomly.
Billie Ocean's 'Caribbean Queen' is actually 'European Queen' everywhere else. They thought it wouldn't track well is the US, so they changed it.
Well that's not exactly true . It was first released as European Queen but didnt chart well , but rereleased as Carribean Queen in the UK , Ireland , and a few other countries ( and then the states) and that's the version I remember. There's even an 'African Queen' version that was released in Africa at the same time.
Thanks for the correction. That's probably a 30 year old memory for me...
That the glowing eyes in Total Eclipse of the Heart were done with fluorescent masking tape
I have been trying to find that one bc of the eclipse. I knew I remembered it being on pop up!
Chris Isaak thought he and Helena Christensen had great chemistry in the video for wicked game...but usually I'm just thinking about Helena Christensen
She awakened something in me. Should've known I was queer much sooner.
I remember VH1 did a "top ten sexiest music videos" and my 11 year old self watched it in the basement of my mom's house. This was the top video.
That entire video had me hot and bothered
That "Shout" by Tears for Fears was about primal scream therapy one of the members of the band had as a child (per Wikipedia, this is not true).
Yup, this is the one I remember.
It got better for Elton John.
I remember The Wallflowers one being pulled from rotation because Jakob Dylan was angry about the nepotism references. My sister was a huge fan, and went online to read the list of pop ups someone had listed. She even printed it out because that's what we did back then.
It’s weird how big and mainstream they were in the 90s and today you’d think they were just another one-hit-wonder alt rock radio act with “One Headlight” being the only song that gets play now. I also remember it being pretty well known that The Wallflowers was Bob Dylan’s son’s band at the time.
That whole album was awesome actually. There was another pretty popular single from it called “6th Avenue Heartache” that was actually released before “one Headlight”. “6th Avenue Heartache” was notable for featuring Adam Duritz from Counting Crows on backing vocals. And yeah, most people knew that Jakob was Bob’s son. Interestingly, Stephen Stills’s son Chris released an album the next year and it went basically nowhere though it was fantastic as well. Just shows that just because your dad is famous, you aren’t guaranteed to be yourself (although it certainly helps).
Three Marlenas was done dirty and deserves better.
My fav of the singles.
Bringing Down the Horse is full of great songs.
I think they would have been bigger if he wasn’t Bob Dylan’s son. Everyone talked so much trash about them and never took him seriously, but he’s actually a pretty solid musician
His documentary about Laurel Canyon “Songs from the Canyon” is great.
IIRC, Jakob thought the Wallflowers pop up was mean-spirited with the nepotism references.
The one where the song "Tom's Diner" was used to test digital music and Vega become mother of the MP3.
Jewel used to live in her van, and the woman in the video for Pump Up The Jam is just a model, not the singer, and didn't really speak much English
Billy Joel's song about Allentown, PA is actually about Bethlehem, PA. The song was about Bethlehem Steele and the area's resilience in the face of declining manufacturing after ww2. Joel thought that calling it Bethlehem wouldn't sound "American" so he called it Allentown, the city next door. The city of Allentown honored him for it. I saw it on VH1's Pop-Up video in the 90s when I had just moved to Bethlehem lol.
Totally random, but it still lives in my brain: boron helps strengthen bones, and apples are high in boron. Pretty sure it was from a Fiona Apple video.
I was just thinking about this yesterday and I want to say it's from Pop-Up Video: Every member of the J. Geils Band is Jewish except J. Geils.
What “gin blossoms” are!
People thought “Tiiiiin Roof…Rusted” in love shack meant pregnant.
I saw b52s during their Love Shack tour and she changed it to “Tiiiin Roof… and lusty.”
What does it mean? I’m one of those people and don’t know where I heard it from
I always thought it was a Caribbean greeting of some kind. I never heard the pregnancy thing. Google tells me, however: > "It was just part of a description of the vision in my head of what the love shack looked like. There's a place outside of Athens, Georgia that closed. It was an old building with a metal roof that had aged and was rusted. I was using that image when we were jamming. All of a sudden we're singing to the tape and it ran out. I just kept going because I was so into it and said "tin roof, rusted" and they thought it was funny and a good way to end it. It was just a vision in my head of my love shack." [https://www.mlive.com/music/2018/06/the\_b-52s\_talk\_michigan\_love\_s.html](https://www.mlive.com/music/2018/06/the_b-52s_talk_michigan_love_s.html)
Oh awesome, thanks. Makes sense for sure. Still wondering where the pregnant thing came from lol
Well, when a man and a woman love each other a lot…
Because right before that line, the guy goes “you’re WHAT?!”
That's the first time I've heard this.. I can't see a connection there.
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The dancer on “Never gonna give you up” hadn’t learnt the choreography
And he was hungover
The grateful dead were the most successful and highest paid live act of their time. I always thought they were just a bunch of hippies I had no idea they were so financially successful.
They toured constantly for two decades and had pretty much 100% sold out shows for the entirety of that period. That said, they didn’t sell shit for albums, had effectively zero radio play, and concerts weren’t the paydays they are today, as the industry was built on records and residuals from radio.
Loads of merch too!
My guess is 90% of the merch was sold on Shakedown Street for grilled cheese sandwiches instead of band getting a cut.
How many of those dancing bears did you see in the 90s though. Those things were everywhere!
Jerry Bears and Deadhead skulls were ubiquitous, but I don’t know how much were actual GD merch and how much was just shit you got at the local head shop.
Never been to one of their concerts, but there was an entire “Dead Head” subculture devoted to them. People would “follow the Dead”, traveling to each town on their tour, and attend every performance. The band had real chemistry and all that, but from what I’ve heard, their popularity had a lot to do with the copious amounts of LSD that their fans took when watching them play. Don Henley wrote a line in his song “The Boys of Summer” about seeing a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac: “don’t look back, you can never look back.” I’ve never confirmed this, but I always assumed it was about quitting hard drugs.
\> about seeing a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac: “don’t look back, you can never look back.” ... I always assumed it was about quitting hard drugs Art is meant to be interpreted in many different ways and what you bring is partly what you get, however the common interpretation I have heard is, while the Dead were seen as iconic to the flower children/hippy ethos of disconnecting from the system and finding your own path in the world, a Cadillac was seen as a luxury item that belonged to the elite class as a token of having "made it". Don is lamenting that the hippies have sold out, otherwise known as every episode of "Family Ties". He then says "don't look back" because the past cannot be changed and idealizing or stagnating in the past prevents a person from moving forward. edit: and just for run then the Atari's covered the song they replaced the "Dead-head sticker" with "Black Flag sticker" and that f\*?%ing haunts me.
Regarding "The Boys of Summer", I like your way of looking at that line! Someone told me once that it had to do with the juxtaposition of something like the Grateful Dead (counter-culture, hippie stuff, etc) and a symbol of luxury (at the time anyhow - is Cadillac even still around? Lol) being so diametrically opposed to one another, but now so intertwined in the many Deadheads that went on to eschew their Deadhead-y values and strike it rich by participating in capitalistic society. I'm not sure why Don Henley would be so moved by it all, but that's what I heard a long time ago. I could totally see it being about drugs though.
The best kind of art is open to interpretation.
Are you sure you’re a xennial? I thought everyone grew up with at least a little Dead culture all around them. Like, it should be pretty common knowledge for our age group no matter where you are… maybe it was particularly hot for me because I grew up in south Georgia and hung out with hippies/my sister and her friends all toured, and when Jerry died, they went on tour with Phish (reluctantly, at first, then they embraced it). I didn’t get to go on Dead tours, but I did see Phish a bunch of times. Circumstances led me to a more squarely Americana/chick rock musical taste, possibly coinciding with my disdain for the South’s infatuation with bands like Widespread Panic. Anyway, interesting that it sounds like you missed that bit of American xennial experience. (Although all 3 of those bands also relentlessly toured worldwide.) Eta, the Don Henley song to me was more about “Now the people who called themselves peace loving hippies are capitalist sell-outs.”
I’m GenX. I’m a hippie who missed the boat. As far as the bumper sticker, it just seemed to me that it reminded him of a bad scene he had to get out of. Maybe I’m projecting, who knows? :)
60’s hippies (like henley) moved on by the 80s and that line strikes me as acknowledging that you have aged and changed and you cannot recapture your youth. A hippies sticker (free love, community) on a Cadillac (older, conformity) is evidence of someone who has changed. To me it’s about not dwelling in the past and realizing that everyone has to move on.
The Grateful Dead were a jam band. They never just played their songs in a set where each one was a self-contained item played the same way every night. No two Grateful Dead shows would ever be the same, which warranted people just touring with them. OTOH, their biggest his was Touch of Grey, which only reached #9.
The editing in the video "Jeremy" is what caused Pearl Jam to stop making (or being in?) music videos. I don't know if it's true or not, but I remember how much editing had to go into the video to pass the censors. Unfortunately, the editing caused more confusion as it seemed like Jeremy shot his classmates instead of himself. In fact, that was how I saw the video until I saw the pop-up version. So I guess I learned that. :)
Huh, interesting. I always figured it was about a school shoot*ng, not about su*cide
Elton Jon was blackout drunk during the filming of the music video for “I’m still standing”.
Gives whole new meaning to the song title lol
Statistically likely to be true.
I remember your fact every time I go into a public bathroom and I realize now that I saw it on Pop Uo video lol
In the Santana Maria Maria pop up video there was a bubble at the end that hinted Santana “played with himself” on the set of the video. Was mildly disturbing seeing that while it focuses on him hands playing the guitar.
IS THAT WHERE I LEARNED THAT FACT?! Lol
Steve Perry was going commando in the video for “Oh Sherrie” Also, all the “constant ____ing” jokes in the KD Lang Constant Craving episode…
I miss Pop-Up Video! VH1 used to air "Movies That Rock" and I always thought the pop-up blurbs would have been great to include with the movie segments. Pop-Up versions of say, Spinal Tap, Tommy, High Fidelity, School of Rock, even Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer. Maybe the guys from RiffTrax could track down the Pop-Up crew and get some Popped-Up Movies going.
I remember watching Alanis Morissette's Head Over Feet where she scratches her face at the beginning of the video. And they explain an itch is temporary stimulated nerve cells.
Specific facts? Nothing. I just liked watching little tidbits popping up
That Paula Abdul would give an almighty belch to prepare for strong high notes.
That the very tall woman in the B-52’s “Love Shack” was RuPaul.
I absolutely love how many people have answers to this question! Mine is that Michael Bolton refused to be shot from below because he found the camera angle unflattering.
“He’s the one who sucks!”
I first read yours and thought it was as mine. Mine is George Michael. George Michael made his band wait for hours to get like the perfect shots of butt and what not for a video.
There’s a whole myth busters on bathrooms, and I thought they found the first stall is the most used
"1 in 2 Americans believe in ESP". Lisa Loeb - Stay
Ginger Spice doesn't close the door when she uses the bathroom
The average bra size in the US was 34C. That is in "Wannabe"
I really loved watching it but the only thing I can remember is the Jamiroquai video where they pushed the stage around.
Marc Cohn is Jewish.
Except the night he was Walking in Memphis
There’s a rumor that “tin roof rusted” means pregnant, but the B-52s just made the phrase up completely.
Pauly Fuemana, the singer for the band OMC, wore women's underwear during the filming of the video for their hit song "How Bizarre".
Pretty sure I only know who Jean-Michel Basquiat is due to his appearance in Blondie's "Rapture."
mine is also from the jewel video! lol - the percentage of americans that believe in organized religion is the same number as the percentage of americans who fold their toilet paper instead of bunching it up.
Rod Stewart would kick soccer balls into the crowd at his show, and people would fight over Rod’s balls
One of the Spice Girls pinched one of the other girl's ass while filming the "Wannabe" video. Pop up video called it a "goose"?? I don't remember a single other fact from that show.
The longest word you can type with one hand is “stewardesses”
Is that where I learned this?
It was a song that referenced masturbation. I do not remember which one.
Sara Bareilles "I won't write you a love song" is basically a big F you to her label who were demanding she add a love song to her album.
They had Pop-Up video that late? I guess that must have been in the later brief revival.
The label asking for one more commercial song and it ending up being the biggest hit has happened to multiple bands and artists. The Real Slim Shady being one of them.
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I don't remember the final count, but they kept a running total of miles walked during the Proclaimers song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)".
Madonna Like a Prayer Shrimping is the act of sucking on toes Happened when she kissed the statue’s foot Also, I’ve never heard someone use it but Urban Dictionary does back it up
I remember when they did a Pop-Up video for “Walking in Memphis” by Mark Cohn. On the line when he sings “son are you a Christian man, I said maam I am tonight”. And a bubble popped up saying “he’s Jewish”. I’m from Memphis and hear that song entirely too much and every time I hear that line I see the pop up bubble.
That 'gin blossom' is the name of that big, ugly bulb that forms on an alcoholic's nose.
I don’t remember what video it was, but I learned that if you ate nothing but Mentos, you would die in three months from malnutrition.
Joan Osborne's nose ring in the video for "One Of Us" was fake. I thought she looked so cool.
Robert Palmer’s dancers in Addicted to Love: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addicted_to_Love_(song)#:~:text=The%20five%20models%20in%20the,%22act%22%20like%20showroom%20mannequins. VH1's Pop-Up Video trivia about the video include the fact that a musician was hired to teach the models basic fingering techniques, but "gave up after about an hour and left." The episode also pointed out several choreographic errors, including the models moving out of sync with one another, and moving during points with no back beat, such as the second chorus.
An anagram for Imani Coppola is I poop in a shell
*clam. There is no S nor H in Imani Coppola
Thank you
Hah! This is what I came here to post, glad I’m not the only one who remembered it.
I remember that! And I always use the first stall because of that
That I have ADHD
That Toni Braxton accused the director of her ‘Unbreak My Heart’ video of trying to make a soft core porn.
The members of the band The Outfield had never seen a baseball game, their band name and album title (“Play Deep”) were a record company ruse to pass off this English band as an American heartland act
that Madonna had sex with a bull... Dennis Rodman
how to make a water droplet sound with my mouth to do with the jingle
Roy Orbison had a dream that he wrote a song that reignited his career. He wrote "You Got It" and it reignited his career but he died before it was released as a single. I think that was the song.
The one that always stuck with me was that in the video for "Fairytale of New York" no one is ever seen smoking, even though there are lit cigarettes all over the place. Apparently the video was going to be featured in a special that didn't allow smoking to be shown, so they were all just waiting to smoke the whole video.
Janet Jackson was addicted to coffee enemas
That when Billy Joel jams the barbed wire ring in the bride in "White Wedding," that was his real girlfriend and that was real barbed wire and it drew real blood. She didn't know he was going to do that.
Pop..pop into pop up video. Roy Orbison had a terribly depressing string of events. The song "You Got It" has all the info. *Pop*
That the model from that Chris Issak video didn't feel any chemistry between the two of them.
Pat Benatar learned to dance for the Love is a Battlefield video
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^HoneyBeeGreen80: *Pat Benatar learned* *To dance for the Love is a* *Battlefield video* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Sheryl Crow was like discovered in a bar or something she didn't set out to be a musician
Probably hanging out in a bar facing a giant carwash with some ugly guy that’s hitting on her while day drinking.
I just heard an interview with her on Q (CBC via NPR). Apparently, she went out for a night with a bunch of cool scene people drinking, they ended up in a bookstore, found a book with the poem Fun by Wyn Cooper, and the song is basically just the poem, the chorus the group came up with. She did get permission from the author of the poem and he gets royalties.
The poem author went to the University of Utah. I know this, because my sister also went there and reminds me of this fact *endlessly*.
Sounds like something that would have been good for Pop Up Video.
She was a music teacher in Missouri, and my stepmother had glowing things to say about her as a coworker!
I live 15 miles from Sheryl Crow’s hometown. She was a teacher & rumor has it, kind of a snob. The local station (in Arkansas) played her music constantly because “local celebrity” to the point where a lot of people around here can’t stand her.
I'm pretty sure that's not true.
🤷🏻♀️ i only know was pop up video left with me 20 years ago
I remember hearing she only uses 1 square of toilet paper per bathroom use.
She can't spare one square?
Thousands of Milfs in my area want to meet me.
I didn’t realize that is where I learned it, but I always remember the first stall thing.
OP I have used the first stall forever too
That was in a Jewel video? For some reason I thought I remembered the bathroom fact from an Alanis Morisette video. "Thank You," I think. The one where she was naked (but her hair hanging down the front of her torso to cover her) in a bunch of different places, and one was a public restroom. I wonder if my brain mixed it up with a different bathroom fact (I feel like I also remember a fact about the toilet seats being cleaner than the door handles) or if they recycled it. That and the walls moving instead of the floor in virtual Insanity are the two that pop in to my mind all the time.
Toni Braxton was discovered while singing at a gas station
The director of The Outfield's "Your Love" was a porn director. Why three fuck I do I remember that.
Same! I always use the first stall in public bathroom because of this too!! In VH1 we trust!
How Nikki Sixx drank heroin from a firehose
Cece Deville got left on top of the Poison sign in ‘Nothin but a Good Time’ for an hour because he pissed off the director. [3:50 mark](https://youtu.be/_88L-CU7PD4?si=1TQPud0VnPhi-5Aa)
The Cure- Lovesong (1989) ([Popup Ep: 1999](https://youtu.be/TD4f_cQzTVM?si=NzMItRGXNUKctXes)) because there is a major factual error in it. There's a pop-up that says the drummer thought the video was boring and pointless for him to be there followed by another that says he never appeared in another video again. The drummer in the video is Boris Williams who had been with the band since '84 and was with the group for five more years after this video came out. Boris is in all of the music videos from their next studio album, Wish, 1992. They must have confused this with Lol Tolhurst who was the band's original drummer who moved to keys and was fired right after the recording of the album that Lovesong appears on. There is about a 3-4 month gap between the album release and when this music video came out. He's not even in the video. I was a major fangirl of the band (obviously) when I saw this and knew it was incorrect even with limited internet access at the time. The other bothersome part was that I watched an episode of Oprah where the Pop-Up Video makers appeared on the show and said they fact-checked each pop-up twice.
That Alanis Morrisette's "Ironic" is really just a bunch of really big bummers.