Thursday, October 13, 2005

Shaggy w/ Janet Jackson - Luv Me Luv Me (video)


Pop-dancehall fiend Shaggy had a b-grade hit with Luv Me Luv Me, which had a chorus hook by Janet Jackson, who was smart enough to appear nowhere in this goofy and mostly lackluster video that loses its appeal after only 2-3 views.

As his contribution to the How Stella Got Her Groove Back film, which starred Angela Bassett (who was not smart enough to avoid being in the video), this song and its accompanying vid are pretty much stock standard Shaggy: girls (lots of them), hamming for the camera, and fashion that looks like a Jamba Juice franchise merged with a brothel.

Of particular mention is the repeating motif of Shaggy in green pimp-suit and fedora singing between two columns of platform-heeled, bikini-clad women, which appears to have been ripped stylistically en toto from David Lee Roth's California Girls video from a dozen years before. Also of note is the Shaggy and women in a large sea of fruit, doing not much of anything. Very citrus, but also very stupid.

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