Artist: Mr. Mister
Album: Welcome To The Real World
Video: From YouTube.
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: 8
MTV Top 20 Peak: 4
MTV Top 20 Weeks: 7
"Is It Love" was the third single from Mr. Mister's most successful album. While it reached the top ten in both song and video form, it failed to achieve the high standard set by "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie", both #1 smash hits.
But you know all that because this blog is now providing stats! Yes, it's a new feature provided as a public service. Not a bad chart run, but also entirely forgettable when you really think about it.
I was never a fan of Mr. Mister, but over the years I came to appreciate "Broken Wings", and even "Kyrie" to a certain extent. But I gained no such affection for "Is It Love"? Is it love? No, and I don't feel passionately enough for it to be hate. It is mild to moderate annoyance.
The video is the scene of a formal dinner party at a mansion, and involves the following noteworthy moments:
1) the red-headed star of the video, obsessively snapping Polaroids of herself on a bed
2) an Edward Scissorhands-looking guy with yo-yo
3) our heroine being pawed by some bozo, who she seems to strangle later with her veil as he runs through a meadow, but this may be a dream.
4) as Red escapes the mansion (apparently because she just killed this dude), she hurls her suitcase down this grand staircase with her clothes spilling out, and this other guy klutzily trips over the suitcase (but he seems to be the bozo from before)
5) as she finally attempts to flee the compound, she is stopped by the locked security gate, and Richard Page (who has been watching much of this on a huge screen over a fireplace) boxes her in with his car.
That's the end of the video. It is left to our imagination what happens next. Or not. I hope I never see this video again.
But you know all that because this blog is now providing stats! Yes, it's a new feature provided as a public service. Not a bad chart run, but also entirely forgettable when you really think about it.
I was never a fan of Mr. Mister, but over the years I came to appreciate "Broken Wings", and even "Kyrie" to a certain extent. But I gained no such affection for "Is It Love"? Is it love? No, and I don't feel passionately enough for it to be hate. It is mild to moderate annoyance.
The video is the scene of a formal dinner party at a mansion, and involves the following noteworthy moments:
1) the red-headed star of the video, obsessively snapping Polaroids of herself on a bed
2) an Edward Scissorhands-looking guy with yo-yo
3) our heroine being pawed by some bozo, who she seems to strangle later with her veil as he runs through a meadow, but this may be a dream.
4) as Red escapes the mansion (apparently because she just killed this dude), she hurls her suitcase down this grand staircase with her clothes spilling out, and this other guy klutzily trips over the suitcase (but he seems to be the bozo from before)
5) as she finally attempts to flee the compound, she is stopped by the locked security gate, and Richard Page (who has been watching much of this on a huge screen over a fireplace) boxes her in with his car.
That's the end of the video. It is left to our imagination what happens next. Or not. I hope I never see this video again.
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