The Eighties Music Video Formula

The eighties music video formula - There's a ridiculously hot woman (or multiple ridiculously hot women) just doing something somewhere. Often, they aren't wearing much. Elsewhere, typically in a factory or warehouse, a bunch of guys approaching middle age are lip synching and pretending to play electric instruments that might not even be plugged in. Often, there's a bunch of guys in the warehouse who seem to just be making sparks.

An example of this is Eddie Money's Walk on Water. It hits every one of these notes. Brunette model going around being ridiculously hot, Eddie Money and a bunch of session musicians nowhere near her, and a few guys around them are just making sparks. It's one of the the quintessential eighties videos.

If it's a metal video, replace the sports jackets and jeans the guys in the band are wearing with leather jackets with no shirts on underneath, make the hair more awful and make the women dress less like models and more like strippers. Make sure there's at least one shot of the singer and one of the guitarists or the bassist going back to back while the singer lets out a high pitched wail.