Post one of your favorite soul oldies.

"Respect Yourself" by The Staple Singers. It first became knownst to me, being a child of the 80s, in the 80s.

Ah the 1980s. A decade that produced some of the best, most influential music we've ever heard. As well, a decade in which Bruce Willis thought he should be a singer and that anyone would actually agree with him. A wily trickster, he conned the Pointer Sisters into establishing some musical credibility where there was none. Together, they covered the song, and someone slapped together a music video for it, because that's just what you did in the 1980s when you had money and household name recognition.

The video - it is truly terrible.

I'm kinda glad he did it, though, because I might not have found the original song and fell so fast in love with it.

Admittedly, I can't decide which is the worst part of his version. His terrible acting in the music video? His elevated, unearned confidence in his own soulless singing voice? Or his blatant cis-white appropriation of a Black soul classic.

If you don't know what white privilege looks like, the music video is a masterclass.

Oh and P.S. by the way I ain't mad at the Pointer Sisters. I'm sure they had bills to pay (I mean Neutron Dance pretty much laid that all out), and their performance blows his completely out the water. May as well have read him to filth right there in the recording studio. That library is still open, okurrrr?