PurpleDiamond2009 said:

so i just watched this music video for the first time and let me say i love this song but the video is even better! it's soooooo cute! i just love all the colorful letters and Prince dancing and rocking out on his guitar and they made it short and simple and they cut Kats embarrassing rap verse too but yeah it was wonderful

It is the single version, which I enjoy better.

PurpleDiamond2009 said:

how was i trippn? you don't like this song?

I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day.

squirrelgrease said:

It might look like it was made 10 years earlier than it was, but it's still a great video.

squirrelgrease said:

I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day.

I agree.I like the "Alphabet St" video because of its playful simplicity.It reminds me of those early 80s videos that artists and bands made before they were given big budgets for videos.

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squirrelgrease said:

I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day.

Co-sign !

squirrelgrease said:

I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day.

I agree with this, its cheap hurried quality is what makes it good.

alphabet st video reminds of a sesame st skit love it

The video looks like it was shot at a Minneapolis TV station in front of the weather man's green screen.

Weather man: "We'll get some of that Gulf Stream hot air pushing north, and temperatures will rise."

Prince: "NO!"

In fact, the guy that shot the video said that it was very cheaply done in a warehouse or something against a blue screen late at night. The interview was just posted here recently. In fact, I think it was the guy himself that responded to the thread.

Here ya go: http://prince.org/msg/7/326027 See reply #77 from "mbarnard". That's the guy who shot the video.

squirrelgrease said:

SoulAlive said:

excellent video. perfect pop song. what happened dude...

ernestsewell said:

The video looks like it was shot at a Minneapolis TV station in front of the weather man's green screen.

Weather man: "We'll get some of that Gulf Stream hot air pushing north, and temperatures will rise."

Prince: "NO!"

In fact, the guy that shot the video said that it was very cheaply done in a warehouse or something against a blue screen late at night. The interview was just posted here recently. In fact, I think it was the guy himself that responded to the thread.

Here ya go: http://prince.org/msg/7/326027 See reply #77 from "mbarnard". That's the guy who shot the video.

Thanks for the link Ernest.

I LOVE the Alphabet Street video!

I remember when I read per Nelson's book, he seemed to imply that the video was a hasty hack job and artistic compremise.

But I love everything about the video--the cheesy effects, the quirky song, the polkadotted shirt, the extremely gay hair tossing (admit it, Diana Ross might as well have been Telly Sivalis compared to that sexiness), the vanity shots of him slowly blinking at the camera.... GOD, I just love EVERYTHING about the video.

Prince seems to work best when the video is low budget and the entertainment factor relies on his dancing or sheer silliness. I know the Gett Off video was filmed by the same director as the Kiss video, but the stripped down Kiss video is just superior.

But I digress. The Alphabet Street Video is like a really fun upbeat, slutty raver chick who can dance all night long. Videos like Black Sweat are like that Joran Vander Sloot fella...guilty of showing up in the wrong place, doing bad things, and then disappearing with swiftness.

TheVoid said:

Prince seems to work best when the video is low budget and the entertainment factor relies on his dancing or sheer silliness. I know the Gett Off video was filmed by the same director as the Kiss video, but the stripped down Kiss video is just superior.

I don't believe that is correct. Randee St. Nicholas directed "Gett Off". Rebecca Blake directed "Kiss".

The video was shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, a french photographer and art director in advertisement, who also worked with Madonna and J.P. Gaultier...

I love, it's pure fun and mirrors the musics perfectly.

Mondino said that no video could show the genius of Prince music

ernestsewell said:

TheVoid said:

Prince seems to work best when the video is low budget and the entertainment factor relies on his dancing or sheer silliness. Randee St. Nicholas TOTALLY directed "Gett Off". Rebecca Blake TOTALLY directed "Kiss".

I don't believe that is correct. Randee St. Nicholas directed "Gett Off". Rebecca Blake directed "Kiss".

Crack smacked apple jack!

Stella06 said:

The video was shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, a french photographer and art director in advertisement, who also worked with Madonna and J.P. Gaultier...

I love, it's pure fun and mirrors the musics perfectly.

Mondino said that no video could show the genius of Prince music

I don't think so, Mondino did the I wish you heaven video (and of course the infamous Lovesexy shot).

yankem said:

Stella06 said:

The video was shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, a french photographer and art director in advertisement, who also worked with Madonna and J.P. Gaultier...

I love, it's pure fun and mirrors the musics perfectly.

Mondino said that no video could show the genius of Prince music

I don't think so, Mondino did the I wish you heaven video (and of course the infamous Lovesexy shot).

Mondino is a great artist, his photography is very good.

I think he also shot the video for Manchild, by Nenah Cherry.

TheVoid said:

ernestsewell said:

I don't believe that is correct. Randee St. Nicholas directed "Gett Off". Rebecca Blake directed "Kiss".

That's exactly what I said!

fool!

MikeyB71 said:

yankem said:

I don't think so, Mondino did the I wish you heaven video (and of course the infamous Lovesexy shot).

Mondino is a great artist, his photography is very good.

I think he also shot the video for Manchild, by Nenah Cherry.

Yes, he made a bunch of cool videos back in the days...Under my skin by Neneh Cherry is really something ! He worked for just anybodybody you can think of from Madonna to Jill Jones (Mia Bocca)...

One day I thought I was going down to alphabet St... turns out it was a homeless man... he was a vet. I bought him a whopper value meal.

squirrelgrease said:

I love that video for some reason. Sure, it's cheesily put together, but it's as fun as the song. I'll take this video over big-budget yawn-fests like Te Amo Corazon and Chocolate Box any day.

I like Te Amo Corazon. I LOVE Alphabet St! Chocolate Box is not one of his better videos, imo.

I love the Alphabet St. video for many reasons, one of which is that video is forever associated in my mind with the fact that I met him the day it premiered on MTV.