Tom Petty Videos Were Creepy

I just found out that Tom Petty had a music video for the song Make It Better from the album Southern Accents, which surprised me, since I thought the only hit from that album was Don't Come Around Here No More. The other thing that surprised me was that the music video for Make It Better is that it's almost as shit your pants scary with a side of tripping balls as Don't Come Around Here No More's video. Thankfully in this one, The Heartbreakers don't turn a woman into a cake and eat her. They just climb into a woman's brain and play a song. Then the woman attacks the tiny ear booger Tom Petty with a Q-Tip.

I've been trying to understand why people consider Southern Accents to be one of his weakest albums. I really like it. It's one of my favorites to be honest. But I think I found a reason: those god damn music videos probably gave a bunch of people nightmares.

I'm sort of glad that Rebels didn't have a video now. That's one of my favorite Petty songs ever, but the live performance works just fine. The other option probably would've been a bunch of giant Land of Confusion puppets wearing trucker hats and overalls driving in a truck with Tom Petty in the back in a silly hat with stupid sunglasses.

Maybe there can be a sequel video for Mary's New Car where they have a female puppet like that driving around inside an acid trip hellscape. Or for Spike, they can have a half dog, half man in a spiked collar chasing Tom Petty around an apartment building like it's Scooby Doo or something. For The Best of Everything, they can have Mike Campbell dressed up as Satan showing up and taking a shit inside of a human brain, and at the end, they can play American Girl backwards while Satan slow dances with Tom Petty in the Mad Hatter outfit..

But it still wouldn't be as terrifying as the video for Mary Jane's Last Dance, because that video had strongly implied necrophilia. Or Yer So Bad, because that had a guy hanging out with a blow up doll and pregnant men. That's not as terrifying as necrophilia, but it's somehow almost as creepy.