NINA HAGEN – "So Bad" (Promo video, 1993)
- 9 years ago
"So Bad" is a song written by Nina Hagen, Olle Romo and Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics fame. In fact, according to Stewart’s official site “…Dave was credited for just about everything on this track: songwriter, keyboards, background vocals & drum programming”.
After being edited to just three and a half minutes (from the original five minutes long version), "So Bad" was released in Germany as the only single off the critically acclaimed 1993 album 'REVOLUTION BALLROOM' produced by Phil Manzanera, once lead guitarist with the seminal band, Roxy Music.
A promo video was shot on 28 December 1993 directed by Marcus Nispel to accompany the release of the single in the following month, almost literally visualising the lyrics of the song and including a six-armed Nina Hagen as the Hindu goddess of empowerment Kâli, plus a notable appearance of South African anti-apartheid politician Nelson Mandela in the final scene!
Nina Hagen, as a human being and a mother of two (daughter Cosma Shiva and son Otis) uses the lyrics of "So Bad" as a vehicle to pretty obviously express her worries about the future of this planet and her disappointment (disgust even) of the modern world at the time. Unfairly enough the single didn’t make any impact on the charts, and a maxi-single with five remixes of the song that followed in 1995 for the UK music market didn't help either.
After being edited to just three and a half minutes (from the original five minutes long version), "So Bad" was released in Germany as the only single off the critically acclaimed 1993 album 'REVOLUTION BALLROOM' produced by Phil Manzanera, once lead guitarist with the seminal band, Roxy Music.
A promo video was shot on 28 December 1993 directed by Marcus Nispel to accompany the release of the single in the following month, almost literally visualising the lyrics of the song and including a six-armed Nina Hagen as the Hindu goddess of empowerment Kâli, plus a notable appearance of South African anti-apartheid politician Nelson Mandela in the final scene!
Nina Hagen, as a human being and a mother of two (daughter Cosma Shiva and son Otis) uses the lyrics of "So Bad" as a vehicle to pretty obviously express her worries about the future of this planet and her disappointment (disgust even) of the modern world at the time. Unfairly enough the single didn’t make any impact on the charts, and a maxi-single with five remixes of the song that followed in 1995 for the UK music market didn't help either.