Album: Boy In The Box
Video: From YouTube.
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: 30
MTV Top 20 Peak: 5
MTV Top 20 Weeks: 4
When this video was on MTV, it made absolutely no impression on me. It wasn’t so much that I disliked it, but rather a near complete absence of any reaction. That is also how it strikes me today. However, it should be noted that this song did very well in Canada.
I prefer to focus on the great things Corey Hart did, like one of the 80’s true great songs, Never Surrender. I was also impressed when he re-invented himself as a major league baseball player.
"Everything In My Heart" had a unique tenure on the weekly countdown. After rocketing from #17 to #9 to #5 in its first three weeks, it seemed that the video was poised to claim the top spot. But the next week it sunk to #11, and the following week it was off the countdown entirely.
Stevie Nicks' "Talk To Me" video had a parallel life on the countdown, peaking at #5 after three weeks and then tumbling down and out. It didn’t make the top 100. I wish it had, in place of this video.
There are five things about this video. I wouldn’t say they are awesome, so let’s just call them five things:
1) Sitting with head down and elbows on knees is his patented move. The “Never Surrender” video starts the exact same way.
2) Also like in “Never Surrender”, he does a lot sulking through the streets.
3) Corey Hart is a master of staring intensely into the camera while thrusting his head forward in a rhythmic fashion.
4) Whole lot of fist pumping action on stage.
5) The crowd seems way more enthused than they ought to be.
When this video was on MTV, it made absolutely no impression on me. It wasn’t so much that I disliked it, but rather a near complete absence of any reaction. That is also how it strikes me today. However, it should be noted that this song did very well in Canada.
I prefer to focus on the great things Corey Hart did, like one of the 80’s true great songs, Never Surrender. I was also impressed when he re-invented himself as a major league baseball player.
"Everything In My Heart" had a unique tenure on the weekly countdown. After rocketing from #17 to #9 to #5 in its first three weeks, it seemed that the video was poised to claim the top spot. But the next week it sunk to #11, and the following week it was off the countdown entirely.
Stevie Nicks' "Talk To Me" video had a parallel life on the countdown, peaking at #5 after three weeks and then tumbling down and out. It didn’t make the top 100. I wish it had, in place of this video.
There are five things about this video. I wouldn’t say they are awesome, so let’s just call them five things:
1) Sitting with head down and elbows on knees is his patented move. The “Never Surrender” video starts the exact same way.
2) Also like in “Never Surrender”, he does a lot sulking through the streets.
3) Corey Hart is a master of staring intensely into the camera while thrusting his head forward in a rhythmic fashion.
4) Whole lot of fist pumping action on stage.
5) The crowd seems way more enthused than they ought to be.
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