Copyright 1995 Globe Newspaper Company
The Boston Globe
January 13, 1995, Friday, City Edition
SECTION: LIVING; Pg. 79
LENGTH: 107 words
HEADLINE: Aimee's place;
VIDEO VIBE * * 1/2 Aimee Mann Song: "That's Just What You Are"
CD: Melrose Place - the music Label: Imago
Recording and Giant Records Director: unnamed Showing on: MTV
BYLINE: By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff
BODY:
This candy-colored clip, which plays behind the closing
credits of Fox's "Melrose Place," is a spirited rendering of Aimee
Mann's candy-colored pop song. Against a cloudy-blue-sky stage backdrop,
a very blond Mann is lit in red and green as she spray paints roller skates
in yellow, red and green. At one point, a fleet of painted skates do a small
cha-cha, eager to roll her away from her stalled love affair. Aside from
roaming almost obsessively over Mann's affectless eyes and hip outfits,
the video is about vivid color and pop artifice. Like the song, the images
are infectious and synthetic, sweet on the verge of cloying.