Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Since bottomset thinks this forum is collapsing, it's time for another clickbait-type thread. Enjoy!
I'll get a few started off here. Feel free to contribute your own:
Into the Night - Benny Mardones (1980/1989)
This might be the creepiest song/video combination of all time. 34-year-old Mardones, who already kind of looks like a pedophile, sings about his obsession with a 16-year-old girl. The video shows the girl's father telling Mardones to "leave her alone", but instead Mardones proceeds to sneak into her room, take her away on a magic carpet, make out with her in the sky, and presumably do much more after the camera pans away.
Another strange thing about thing song was that it somehow got revived nine years later in 1989, simply because Los Angeles DJ Scott Shannon started playing the song in his "Where Are They Now?" segment, and that sent it back into the top 20 for another 17 weeks.