X's Wild Thing video is a perfect encapsulation of an early 80's punk or rock video made on the cheap. It includes all of the perfect elements. It has historical footage of real life destruction or chaos(wrecking ball going through building). It has manufactured destruction for the video(blowing up a tv). It has some sort of everyman storyline(guy takes girl to a show). And they intersperse the video with concert footage of the band.
As for 14-year old me watching/hearing this for the first time, I was into it. I liked the sound of female lead singers covering songs originally sung by a guy. 14-year old me also enjoyed Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1uqusMLpOU
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