Thirty-five years after its release, the video for TheCars’ “You Might Think” remains wildly surreal
) 1984 Video Music Awards, "You Might Think" took home best overall, best conceptual and most innovative, as well as best editing and, for Stein and Charlex, best special effects. And the clip was also awarded the first-ever MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 1984, beating out such other classics as Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and even Michael Jackson's "Thriller.
Despite their success, Ocasek and the rest of the Cars were reluctant video stars. "One of the worst parts of the video process was pitching ideas to the band," Stein said in. "I met The Cars and told them, 'The band's in the medicine chest, and then on a bar of soap, and Ric's a fly,' and one of them said, 'Why don't we all just play on a turd in the toilet bowl?' That was the prevailing attitude.
Ocasek wasn't necessarily the most natural video focal point. The late Ben Orr was the Cars' conventional heartthrob, all blonde shaggy hair, boyish facial features and honeyed vocal warmth. Ocasek was Orr's photo negative -- dark-haired and sharp-featured, with a slimmer build and angular cheekbones he accentuated with sunglasses and tailored suits -- had an icier tone to his delivery, and wasn't a flashy or active performer.
Naturally, MTV loved The Cars from their literal start. The band had three separate performance-based videos played during the channel's first day on air: a clip for
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