Big Pimpin'

Hopefully this week will be better then last week. I don't know if I can take anymore bad news involving children. So far, so good though. Last night I watched the Grammy Awards. I hadn't planned on watching the show, but nothing else was on so I decided to have it on as background noise. Well, so much for the background noise because once I made it through Alicia Keys opening duet with Frank Sinatra (SNORE), I was instantly flashed back to the 1980s. Where had they been for the last 20 years? I couldn't believe it, there was The Time. There was Morris Day still in his flashy suit with his perfectly coifed hair. There was Jerome and he still had the mirror, still smudge-free after all these years. And wait there is Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, still rockin' the Blues Brothers fedoras. WWOOO, as sigh of relief escapes my lips, at least there are no jheri curls hidden under those hats. Some things were just not meant to be resurrected.

In case you missed it, here is a flashback video. It's not the song they sang last night ("Jungle Love - oh we oh we oh"), but's it's one of my favs from back in the day. Take special notice of the irridescent suits. Nobody could do Big Pimpin' like Morris Day and Jerome. (Although there is a gentleman that lives Uptown, that I see most mornings, that gives Morris a run for his money. I wonder if he stumbled on a garage sell that Morris had once the hits stopped coming. This guy has irridescent suits in EVERY color, I'm talking hot pink, yellow, green, electric blue, cream, red. And don't forget the matching shoes. I always wonder where the hell he works. What office does he show up to everyday in these bright ass suits? He's got to be raising some eyebrows. And (drum roll), he's white. I guess Pimpin' is color blind)

And did I mention that I used to want to be a video girl. I'm talking about the video girls from the 80s not the hoochie video girls that emerged in the 90s. The first video girls were classy. They wore cute outfits, hair bows, pumps with socks, mini-skirts and bangs. They had simple dance steps, no gyrating here. Take a look at these girls. Yeah, I was surely sitting in front of the t.v. at 12 years of age, imagining that I was going to grow up, move to L.A. and side-step like the best of them in videos. Maybe it's not too late? Maybe I can bring back the video girl of old.