90s VOTW: “Come to My Window,” Melissa Etheridge
How did I not post a 90s VOTW last week? GAWD. Sorry, folks.
Anyway, this video features Juliette Lewis as a mental patient. Pretty big stretch for her, I know. Ha! I’m totally joshing! Well, only like 80% joshing. I love Juliette Lewis.
Loving Mel’s denim button-up shirt with the sleeves cut off. Larry the Cable Guy totally stole his style from the fabulous Ms. E. And, yes, I’m duly ashamed that I know the kind of shirt that Larry the Cable Guy wears.
One thing I always loved about this song was the sheer intensity that Melissa sings with. I’ve sort of rediscoverd Melissa Etheridge in the past year or so, after my boyfriend and I watched “An Inconvenient Truth” at a free screening at the National Archives in DC and walked back to the Metro scream-singing this song and “I Want to Come Over” and “I’m the Only One.” I’m pretty sure that’s the lesson we were supposed to take from that movie - that Melissa Etheridge rocks pretty hard. Right?
Loving Juliette dancing with herself at the end of the vid. I dance with myself all the time. I also walk down the street, composing conversations in my brain entirely in French. Occasionally I’ll slip and say something out loud and people who are nearby give me somewhat concerned looks. Maybe I belong in the hospital, not Juliette… oh well. If it means I can color all over my room and jam to Melissa Etheridge all day, I’m totally in.
I once made out with a guy at a bar who resembled Larry the Cable Guy, complete with the cut-off flannel shirt. Not my best moment.
A local radio station that is suppose to play “modern hit music” plays this song almost daily. It’s a guilty pleasure.
Jen-nay - I always knew you were a classy lady. There’s my proof. =)
Madison - I love the stations that brag about how they play only today’s hottest music or whatever, and then a song by the Goo Goo Dolls cues up. Like, dude, that was hot ten years ago.