{"id":643,"date":"2006-08-18T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=643"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:54:40","slug":"entry-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Video Picks &#8211; Cheerleaders and Homecoming Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tonight\u2019s picks are inspired by the episode of VH1 Classic\u2019s All Request Hour. Someone actually requested this next one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nonVj7odbmU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Julie Brown: The Homecoming Queen Has Got A Gun (1987)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song and video <em>almost<\/em> remind me of a Ray Stevens song, except not as funny. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why not go from the prom queen to cheerleaders?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0aqLwHP4y6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Toni Basil: Mickey (1981)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, the one-hit-wonder choreographer. \ud83d\ude42 I like that she used real cheerleaders in the video (probably for the same reason I love seeing <a href=\"\/?p=201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">real band members in videos<\/a>). Hey, wouldn\u2019t it be cool to for someone do a mini \u201cWhere Are They Now\u201d on the cheerleaders in this video? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight\u2019s picks are inspired by the episode of VH1 Classic\u2019s All Request Hour. Someone actually requested this next one: Julie Brown: The Homecoming Queen Has Got A Gun (1987) The song and video almost remind me of a Ray Stevens song, except not as funny. \ud83d\ude42 So, why not go from the prom queen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,21],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-video-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}