Courteney Cox has shared a cute new video featuring some iconic dance moves, just in time to mark a special occasion: the 40th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen's classic album, He was born in the USA
In the clip she shared on Instagram, which includes the words 'Asking my mum how she danced in the 80s', the mum and actress is seen in a zip-up hoodie and jeans with her arms in the air, trying to dance. on “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat. As he moves for a few beats, it's clear he's just not feeling it. She shakes her head, unzips her top like a record scratch to reveal a Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band T-shirt, and the song changes to “Dancing in the Dark,” the biggest single from Springsteen's album best sellers. He was born in the USA
Cox smiles and grooves to Springsteen's song, and then the clip flashes to the original video for the track. In the music video, Cox portrays a fan in the audience who is invited on stage by Springsteen, and the two dance together towards the end of the visual. The music video was partially filmed live at the band's June 1984 concert in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone Music now podcast, E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg and keyboardist Roy Bittan discussed the making of the video.
“It was an interesting approach and something different for us,” Bittan said of the video. “The way it went up was probably not our wheelhouse, but it certainly made a big impression on MTV. I think, of course, the song was so great that we probably could have done a lot of different videos and had the same result.”
Weinberg added: “Most of it was recorded before the concert. It was recorded the night before, like a real Hollywood production. They brought in about 500 people and we did it over and over again. I had headphones, because I was playing the song. We must have played it 15 or 20 times in a row. And during the show they did it again, with a packed audience. Courteney Cox was there. We basically did the concert and we stopped and Bruce announced to the audience, “We're going to do a video.”
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