The Palmer Bunch
A couple of weeks ago on Project Runway, Michael Kors dated himself by snarking that April's outfit made the model look "like a Robert Palmer girl." Robert Palmer girls show up in three music videos in the mid-to-late 80s: Addicted to Love, I Didn't Mean to Turn You On, and Simply Irresistible. Apparently they were meant to mimic or parody the art of Robert Nagel (if you get your nails done by a manicurist here in the US, look around: the nail shop probably has a Nagel poster in the window or on the wall.) One of the models featured in Addicted to Love said that they were all told to "look and act like showroom mannequins." Apparently a musician tried to teach them how to fake some basic chords on their guitars, but gave up after an hour or so and wandered away.
Very sexy, if you like emotionless clone-zombies!
This vid has been spoofed quite a bit over the years, but my favorite was when Gina Davis hosted Saturday Night Live in 1989. They did a Brady Bunch spoof called "The Palmer Bunch", in which Davis played a Robert Palmer girl who began to break out of her Thorazine funk to attain sentience. "Oh, no! Tippy's experiencing emotion!" ::twitch twitch:: "LOOK, her eyebrow is moving! I'm scared!"
Click to viewVery sexy, if you like emotionless clone-zombies!
This vid has been spoofed quite a bit over the years, but my favorite was when Gina Davis hosted Saturday Night Live in 1989. They did a Brady Bunch spoof called "The Palmer Bunch", in which Davis played a Robert Palmer girl who began to break out of her Thorazine funk to attain sentience. "Oh, no! Tippy's experiencing emotion!" ::twitch twitch:: "LOOK, her eyebrow is moving! I'm scared!"