The Cars: Drive

The video/ like the song/ represents seed for a chain of states of soul, from melancholia to the architecture of breakdown relation. Simple, well crafted, source of waves of nostalgia.

While it's great having a lot of the video's time spend on THE CARS mostly forgotten, vastly underrated "secondary singer" and bassist Ben Orr, who actually had a far, far better voice than Ric Ocasek's more monotone speaking-singing vocals, when the video's story goes into Russian supermodel and future Mrs. Ocasek, Paulina Porizkova, coming unglued in an empty room, it's not only corny and pretentious but very hard to believe that one of THE MOST beautiful women in the world would not only go crazy, but that she'd literally breakdown over a man who resembles Roy Orbison's pet adder snake...

It's true that Ric Ocasek, who is basically an actor here while Ben sings in an empty barroom looking straight from a Film Noir, is a rock star and it's not a stretch that he'd land a supermodel for that alone, but here he doesn't seem to be playing himself, and if he in fact made such a beauty lose her mind, then she must not have had much a brain to begin with...

Which would explain the video about a crazy woman, but Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton had no flair for directing videos and there is simply no flow here whatsoever.

A weird video, the night club shots feel on brand but the odd shots of a woman in an insane asylum feel way out there. But, you know, it was the 80s baby.