Let's Throwback Thursday to this Insane Klymaxx Video

Okay, so we all have our blind spots. I'm not proud of having this one, because it's been a week now and I can't stop thinking about it. Plus, I consider myself an expert on 1980s boogie pop and extended mixes. Anyone who knows this inside and out already can just skip over to our next story, but for the uninitiated, I hope you enjoy this video as much as I do. 

Klymaxx were an all-girl pop group, fronted by Bernadette Cooper; a woman who seemingly is the answer to the question: "What if instead of having the RnB talkdown during the intro or bridge, we just straight cold rocked it the entire way through every song?" The woman starts off the song with some ice blooded threats about not wanting to have to leave her house, and pretty much coins "basic woman" 25 years ahead of its natural slang usage (in Klymaxx' other hit, "The Men All Pause" she seemingly does the same thing with "fierce"). Directed by Devo member, Gerald V. Casale, the viewer gets taken on a butt wiggling party through what looks like an amalgam of the Pee Wee's Playhouse and Saved by the Bell sets. The real star of the video is a gentleman wearing nothing but red jeans, who upon a little research (going through Youtube comments, which I did already so you can spare yourself) is named Bruno "Pop N Taco" Falcon, which, I mean, that's the entire 80s in a neat little package right there. Apparently this song briefly returned to the zeitgeist when it was parodied on Saturday Night Live with Halle Berry playing the part of Cooper, with the sketch falling flat because as far as I can tell, Berry never listened to the song before the sketch. 

If you're like me and you're a vintage fetishist who spends far more time at drag shows than most straight men in their early thirties and gets excited weekly about who the guests are on an old cable TV episode of The Love Boat, this will tickle you right in the cranberries. If you're not like me, I hope you enjoy the next MLS match.