Quiz tonight:

7pm Brass Monkey Leith.  Jackpot: £200 in dirty cash. Cheat: Janet Jackson is in the music round. See vid below…

9pm Safari Lounge. Jackpot: £60 cash. Cheat: One of the pic round answers is ‘Be Cool‘.

The video for this song has had a lot of money spent on it.

In the video, Janet Jackson lives in the future and she’s got a robot dog and fridge full of silver spheres and everything.

Her girlfriends come round and they go out to the city to perform on a floating computer stage. It’s all pretty stupid. It doesn’t disguise that the song is bland. IT cost $2 and half million dollars to make.

It is the opposite of this:

Which is Mark E Smith sitting in the pub and shouting his hit at the camera. I can’t get a figure but I’m guessing the video cost less than £500 all in.

And that’s today’s prices. Fuck knows for back then? Three pounds, and 90 shillings?