My house is in dire need of some dusting and vacuuming.  I have a hard time motivating myself to clean so what I do is I queue up a bunch of songs on Rhapsody and then I dance around and clean.  It makes it more fun.  I opened up Rhapsody and added a bunch of Tina Turner songs to the mixer.  Private Dancer started to play.  Listening to it, I flashed back to when I was a little girl.  Back then I took the lyrics and video so literally.  “I’m your Private Dancer, a dancer for money, I’ll do what you want me to do.”  I thought this meant she would do the twist or polka or even the hokey pokey, name any dance and TINA COULD DO IT!  And really, thinking about it, why not?  In Pat Benatar’s video, “Love is a Battlefield,” Pat was a teenage runaway who went to the big city and got a job being a private dancer.  She worked at a nightclub where she slow-danced with men for money.  It always seemed strange to me how at the end of the video she and the other private dancers rebelled against their boss.  Even Tina was obviously very sad in her video.  Why were they so upset?  It seemed like such an easy way of making money.  You got to wear crazy clothing with lots of tulle and dance around!  What’s not to like? I figured they were upset because the men they were dancing with were unattractive and had bad breath.  I don’t know when it hit me that dancing wasn’t the only thing on their dance card.   I liken this bolt of clarity to the time I realized Lou Ferigno and Bill Bixby weren’t the same person.

Love is a Battlefield Video:

And here’s the link to Tina’s Private Dancer video.  Embedding was disabled.