Title track from the illusive 4th album. 5 of the 10 songs should have cracked the top 20, including this one. MTV thought the Self Control video was too risqué. They refused to play it unless she revised it. She refused, siting it is artistic, and not vulgar. Eventually she agreed to cutting the 7 seconds off of the ballet dancer scene. MTV begrudgingly aired the video 10 times, after hours. After that, they took it out of rotation completely. Of course, at the time, they were also hit with Madonna, Sheena Easton, Duran Duran and Prince, etc... with risqué videos. They agreed that video content was changing to a more sexually artistic undertone, and played the videos from the other artists. MTV never apologized to Laura, and never put her videos in to rotation again. She was the whipping post, and they were not going to back down. Her management company and Atlantic reacted by not filming videos anymore, unless Laura was willing to fund/produce them. She naively poured money into the wrong places. MTV was the turnkey to radio, and they knew it. They punished Laura Branigan right out of a career, and her management did nothing to recreate a bridge with MTV. She had international support, and focused on the world, when MTV politically shut her out of the US. This is Solid Gold, 11/23/85.
Band, Brian Ray-guitar, Brian BecVar-keyboards, W.G. Snuffy Walden-guitar-music director, Kevin Wells-rums, Joe Puerta-bass and Robert (Bobby) Martin-keyboard-sax in Los Angeles, California. CC imbedded for your viewing pleasure :)
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