{"id":6721,"date":"2015-11-27T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2015-11-27T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:18:23","slug":"billy-idols-dancing-with-myself-music-video-is-a-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/11\/27\/billy-idols-dancing-with-myself-music-video-is-a-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Idol&#8217;s Dancing With Myself music video is a gas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU\">video,<\/a> Billy Idol prances around on a junky, post-apocalyptic sound stage, proclaiming how he&#8217;s all alone. As he continues posturing and sneering in a hammy, macho manner, fans [?] dressed in grey, ragged clothes scale the walls and attempt to reach him, but he zaps them all away with electricity and continues to assert that he&#8217;s dancing with <em>himself<\/em> dammit! Undaunted, the fans climb up the walls again, gather around him on the sound stage, and start seriously boogeying down. Billy Idol ends the song insisting that he&#8217;s still all by his lonesome, but the effect of this statement is diminished by the sweet moves of the fans around him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Yes, I am also aware of the misogynist themes in this video, like the silhouette of the chained woman dancing and the man sharpening his razor in preparation for killing her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Billy Idol prances around on a junky, post-apocalyptic sound stage, proclaiming how he&#8217;s all alone. As he continues posturing and sneering in a hammy, macho manner, fans [?] dressed in grey, ragged clothes scale the walls and attempt to reach him, but he zaps them all away with electricity and continues to&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/11\/27\/billy-idols-dancing-with-myself-music-video-is-a-gas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billy Idol&#8217;s Dancing With Myself music video is a gas!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729,664,653],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-misogyny","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}