Back in the last few years of the 1980s, Richard Marx was huge. His eponymous 1987 album spawned four Top 3 hits, including one #1 ("Hold On to the Nights"), and his second album, Repeat Offender, which debuted on the Billboard album charts this week 25 years ago, had two more #1s ("Satisfied" and "Right Hear Waiting"), along with another Top 5 hit ("Angelia") and two more Top 15 hits ("Too Late to Say Goodbye" and "Children of the Night"), and has gone 5x platinum in the US alone.
It's no wonder that I joined his fan club as an 11-year-old. What is a wonder is why I didn't join any other band or artist's fan club until at least 15 years later. It's not like Richard Marx was my favorite artist. Why didn't I join Def Leppard's fan club? Or Guns N' Roses? Or Skid Row? These are questions I, myself, cannot answer.
Anyway, this is the video for "Satisfied," the first #1 from Repeat Offender. The song is catchy as hell, and the video is, well, all over the place without any real narrative. It just has a bunch of vignettes of people working, boxing, playing pool, dancing near vintage cars, watching ballerinas practice, and releasing pigeons from cages on the roof of a building on which someone is also drying laundry. It is unclear whether any of these actions result in satisfaction for the subjects, other than the adolescent boys watching the ballerinas. My favorite one has to be the three businessmen in suits having a race down a sidewalk. Only in the '80s could a guy with a ponytail have a job that required him to wear a suit.
Interesting tidbit: this song was preceded at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts by "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)" by New Kids on the Block and succeeded at #1 by Milli Vanilli's "Baby Don't Forget My Number."
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