The Drummers In Music Videos Get Short Shrift

Young Ronnie Bond raps on the carriage window
in 'Wild Thing'. Might as well yawn at a flute.
The Bangles' Michael Steele may place her boot
atop a stool, mime lustily and bend o-
ver like she is receiving cunnilingus,
her plucked bass at her groin - well, just below -
while Debbie has to sway and click her fingers,
weaponless as Michaelangelo
(the turtle, not the man behind the statues -
they, if you recall, banned his nunchuka
from our lunchboxes, in case of Blue Peter-
style approximation). And just what use
are these parts to the drummer? Each poor fucker
loiters like a declawed, clean-shorn creature.