The music video was parodied in the videos of Stardust's " Music Sounds Better with You," Tone Lōc's " Wild Thing," Mr Blobby's " Mr Blobby", Bowling for Soup's " 1985," Shania Twain's " Man! I Feel Like a Woman!", Shakira's " Las de la Intuición", Kasey Chambers's " If I Were You", Paula Abdul's " Forever Your Girl", Die Prinzen's "Alles nur geklaut" and Luca Carboni's "Luca lo stesso".
The models were also used in the spoof of the video in "Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF wearing glasses and moustaches. The "Addicted to Love" models' blank expression is parodied in the "Christmas Is All Around" video, with the latter's models visibly bored to the point of yawning. In the romantic comedy film Love Actually (2003), written and directed by Richard Curtis, the video for Billy Mack's song, "Christmas Is All Around", is a tribute to "Addicted to Love". The music video ranked at number 3 on VH1's Top 20 Videos of the 1980s and was the last video shown on long running UK music programme The Chart Show. The episode also pointed out several choreographic errors, including the models moving out of sync with one another, and moving during points with no back beat, such as the second chorus. VH1's Pop-Up Video trivia about the video include the fact that a musician was hired to teach the models basic fingering techniques, but "gave up after about an hour and left". Palmer recycled the video's models concept for the videos of three other songs of his: " I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" (also from Riptide), " Simply Irresistible" and the animated " Change His Ways" (both from Heavy Nova). In a 2013 interview, when asked why she was designated the drummer and not given a close-up shot, Kathy Davies jokingly replied, "I guess the naughty ones always get sent to the back." Davies added that she did not mind it because she thought Palmer "had a good bum." Director Terence Donovan got us tipsy on a bottle of wine but as we were having our make-up retouched, I lost balance on my heels and knocked the top of my guitar into the back of Robert's head, and his face then hit the microphone."
We were meant to look and 'act' like showroom mannequins. "I was 21 and got the part on the strength of my modelling book. The five models in the video are Julie Pankhurst (keyboard), Patty Kelly (guitar), Mak Gilchrist (bass guitar), Julia Bolino (guitar), and Kathy Davies (drums). The video features Palmer performing the song with an abstract "band", being a group of female models whose pale skin, heavy makeup, dark hair and seductive, rather mannequin-like expression follow the style of women in Patrick Nagel paintings. The music video (which uses the shorter single version of this song), directed by British photographer Terence Donovan, was one of the most noted of the era.
Everything about it really hits the nail on the head." Music video "The one main song that I wish that I'd written and recorded is 'Addicted to Love' by Robert Palmer. Noddy Holder (the lead vocalist of English rock band Slade) stated in an interview that this song was the main track he wished he had written himself. The song is also notable for its opening drum solo by Tony Thompson, another Power Station alumnus.
The other guitar part on the song is played by Eddie Martinez, while keyboards were played by Wally Badarou. Chaka Khan is still credited for the vocal arrangements in the album liner notes.Īndy Taylor of Duran Duran (and a bandmate of Palmer's from The Power Station) provides lead guitar. Originally intended to be a duet with Chaka Khan, the song was made without her because her record company at the time would not grant her a release to work on Palmer's label, Island Records.