Quarantined family recreates Journey’s fabulously corny “Separate Ways” video
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Trapped inside with not much else to do but worry, families around the world are finding creative ways to pass the time. For some, that means making your own trick-shot game out of a golf ball and loose kitchen equipment. For others, it means performing a quarantine-themed rendition of “One Day More” from Les Misérables. For the Heller family of Maple Valley, Washington, it means doing a shot-for-shot remake of the music video for “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” by Journey. Because, why not, right? They’ve got the time.
While the younger family members exhibit considerably less enthusiasm than the dad (who we’re betting came up with the idea in the first place), the whole Heller clan does a pretty good job recreating the cheesiness of this early-‘80s classic in their driveway. Special kudos to the mom for rocking out on that drum kit made of overturned buckets. They even posted a side-by-side comparison video on their Vimeo page so people can properly appreciate how much work went into this.
Who knows how long it’ll be before things get back to any kind of normal, so we look forward to seeing what other classic videos the Hellers can churn out. We’d suggest “Faithfully,” but wouldn’t want to subject anyone to growing Steve Perry’s mustache. Things are hard enough these days.
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This is marvelous, and also I appreciate the nostalgia. Videos on the 80s were so crazy. No one knew what to do with this new art form. “Yes, press your keyboard up against this factory wall and play, PLAAAAY!”
Pretty damn fire.
I watched the side by side video. No sound as my work computer doesn’t have speakers. Is it a good thing or a bad thing I didn’t need audio? I heard that song in my head like the video was a full volume. I wore out that tape. Yeah, I said tape.Anyway, well done by that family. That was pretty cool.
8-track or reel-to-reel? 😜
A good, funny recreation of a famously crappy video (I recall Beavis & Butthead also doing a pretty good roasting on one of their segments). But as for the walking close-up of his (perhaps 11 year old?) daughter’s ass in tight leather pants… umm, not so good.
I’m pretty sure that’s also her doing Neil Schon’s parts in the video, so if it makes you feel better, imagine that you’re looking at Neil Schon’s ass.
I appreciate the fact that he didn’t have to dig up a sleeveless shirt from his pile of old high school clothes. He had one handy.