Saturday video break: Sledgehammer

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Charles Kuffner

Here’s Fifth Harmony:

As you may surmise, they’re one of those artists I know about thanks to my kids. They have several songs I like, this one included, so that’s a win. Those of you who aren’t millennials or proximate to kids are probably more familiar with Peter Gabriel’s song of the same name:

A true MTV classic, which I figure had to be a pain to make. Also, sex metaphors are sexy. And metaphorical.

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One Response to Saturday video break: Sledgehammer

  1. Kenneth Fair says:
    November 5, 2017 at 8:48 am

    The story behind Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer music video is a good one. Gabriel had to lie under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while all of the stop-motion animation was being done. One of the animators was Nick Park, of Wallace & Gromit fame. The video won nine MTV Music Video awards, the most ever awarded to a single video.

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