This is the music video for the song "Back for More" from the band Ratt and this was released back in autumn 1984, so as it is spring 2024 now, this will soon have its 40th anniversary or maybe it happened already if you got here a little later to check out this review of mine. It runs for 250 seconds, so slightly over four minutes and the one who shot it was prolific music video director Mark Rezyka who was only in his mid20s at that point and who has worked with many other artists throughout his career. Kiss is just one example. A more famous band than the one we have here in fact and I cannot say I am familiar with Ratt at all. Judging from the outcome here, I would not say it is really my loss as I was fairly underwhelmed all in all by what I saw and heard here, so I am relatively glad it was not a long music video by any means, but pretty much average duration. Maybe even a bit above-average for the 1980s. The video feels very generic. I think true music video creativity did not happen before the 1990s and there were not many exceptions for sure. This is not one of them. Most of it is just a stage performance from Ratt, even if the beginning lets you think slightly differently as if there was a bit of a plot. Well, not really.
About the cast members, if you want to call them that, it can be said that Tommy Lee is of course pretty well-known, also because of a recent television series and also because of Pam obviously. The female protagonist in here is not the Baywatch actress, however, but Tawny Kitaen who was maybe more famous back then than she is now several years after her untimely death. She had her own rock music romance going on. But back to this music video, even if there is not too much to add anymore. I found all about it pretty mediocre and forgettable. It cannot convince me to take a deeper look, or rather a look at all into Ratt's discography to be honest. To be fair though, there's many people who think differently it seems because this one here scored over 5 million views on Youtube in approximately seven years, which is not an outstanding figure for music videos, but still pretty decent. For me personally, however, the thumbs-down was never in doubt from the very beginning. I would say it is also probably closer to being an awful music video or short film than to being worth spending four minutes on. Skip this one and also don't listen to the record.
About the cast members, if you want to call them that, it can be said that Tommy Lee is of course pretty well-known, also because of a recent television series and also because of Pam obviously. The female protagonist in here is not the Baywatch actress, however, but Tawny Kitaen who was maybe more famous back then than she is now several years after her untimely death. She had her own rock music romance going on. But back to this music video, even if there is not too much to add anymore. I found all about it pretty mediocre and forgettable. It cannot convince me to take a deeper look, or rather a look at all into Ratt's discography to be honest. To be fair though, there's many people who think differently it seems because this one here scored over 5 million views on Youtube in approximately seven years, which is not an outstanding figure for music videos, but still pretty decent. For me personally, however, the thumbs-down was never in doubt from the very beginning. I would say it is also probably closer to being an awful music video or short film than to being worth spending four minutes on. Skip this one and also don't listen to the record.
