My introduction to the sound of the spectacular Talking Heads was with this very song "Wild Wild Life" and from then on I was
hooked and in love with everything they did (1977-1991). The music video for this particular single was a spectacle to the senses in such a
way that I always keep coming back whenever I feel like it, and it never fails to amaze me, to bring a smile and even make me sing - I'm also
a big fan of David Byrne's "True Stories", one of the coolest films of the 1980's.
Countless things happening at the same time, which makes of this visual delirium one of those experiences that should be seen several
times so you can get all the details possible. It's set in a nightclub where patrons can perform a song in front of an enthusiastic audience.
Who are the performers? A group of eccentric characters, all dressed as characters or rock/pop impersonations, and the Talking Heads members
appear disguised - David Byrne appears several times and in one of those he plays a Latin lover type; Tina Weymouth appears as a punk rocker;
Jerry Harrison as a ninja type; Chris Frantz as a cowboy dressed in black; from the "True Stories" film cast we have John Goodman playing a
charismatic performer who makes some dance moves. On the stage's background, a wall of televisions with non-stop colorful images that sometimes
flash bigger on the screen with some descriptions from the song.
"Wild Wild Life" giving us a colorful and frantic society that always aspires for bigger, better, faster and more, the excesses of
capitalism and the multicultural clashes and intertwining of the America of the 1980's, modernity at its brighest, sometimes at its most
critical as well. On stage the eccentricity and peculiarities of each performer creates a humored, amusing and entertaining view of a very
diverse group of people just having the time of their lives. Watch it on full volume, cause this is a masterful classic that was not surpassed.
Heads at their greatest! 10/10.
