This was Phil Collins last big hit....didn't really realize that until I did some hunting. I guess with all his work doing Disney movies and stuff, I thought that he had more success since 1990.
This was a very heavy-handed song, tackling the subject of homelessness.
I remember the video had just black and white images of homeless people, interspersed with large statistics ("5 Million Homeless Children by 1995" or some such fact), along with Collins, lipsynching in profile. Looking over the top 20 hits of 1990, I gotta say it's nice to cover a song that is not about dancing, or booties or love gone wrong. It is not easy to write a political song and a. make it a hit and b. make it pretty catchy. So even if the song is pretty blunt, Phil Collins did pull off something that is pretty hard to do.
"Succudio" it is not.
Grover makes a cameo in this.
i like ben walking by with the line "he walks by, doesn't look back". i thought it was planned. but then he just leaves again with his backpack, so maybe not?
ReplyDeletehow funny! it was just a coincidence, though.
ReplyDeletei only had a few minutes to record the song b/c i was time-crunched and i was like--even if ben is getting ready behind me, i am pressing record on this camera!