Dropping back into the world of Music Videos we see Virginia Madsen dropping, briefly, in to the music video for Michael Jackson‘s Liberian Girl.

Michael Jackson isn’t a favourite singer of mine by any stretch of the imagination, I do appreciate that he was amazing at what he did and very few could touch him at the top of his game. And, I am partial to a song or two of his. Billie Jean and Smooth Criminal both stand out as two songs I’d turn up if they came on the radio.

Liberian Girl was the 9th (!!) single from the stupidly popular Bad album released in 1987. It reached Number 1 in just one country, Ireland but it was widely regarded as a hit around the world.

The Music video featured a who’s who of, well, everyone with many a famous face featuring in the 5 minutes or so of the songs running time. It was filmed in 1989 over two days in Los Angeles in April. The premise being that all these famous people show up to make the video but Michael himself is nowhere to be found, only for the big reveal at the end to be that he was actually shooting them the whole time.

It’s honestly an insane list of people that are included in the video, some of them more relevant at the time than they are now, but among them you can find the likes of Paula Abdul, Whoopi Goldberg. Lou Diamond Phillips, John Travolta (with Olivia Newton-John, obviously), Steven Spielberg, Dan Aykroyd and Danny Glover.

Deep stuff.

Anyway. Virginia is on screen for a few seconds with David Copperfield (who is floating, obviously).

And, that’s that.

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