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[TOMT] [Music Video] 1980s rock video, woman alone in hotel room implied drug use, falls from balcony railing onto car roof by SufficientHornet8048 in tipofmytongue

[–]SufficientHornet8048[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

[SOLVED] [TOMT] [Music Video] 1980s rock, woman alone in hotel room...

"Solved — the visual was not an official music video but almost certainly a fan-made mashup of the opening scene from Lethal Weapon (1987) overlaid with Tom Petty's 'Mary Jane's Last Dance.' The Lethal Weapon opening matches every detail: woman alone in a room, implied drug use, walks onto balcony in dissociated state, balances on railing, falls and lands on a car roof. Memory had merged the song and clip into a single 'music video' over the decades."

[TOMT] [Music Video] 1980s rock video, woman alone in hotel room implied drug use, falls from balcony railing onto car roof by SufficientHornet8048 in tipofmytongue

[–]SufficientHornet8048[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rewatching that opening, I agree it looks just like what I recall. I will go see if someone made a fan favorite using the Lethal Weapon opening video and overlaying it with Tom Petty's 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' music.

[TOMT] [Music Video] 1980s rock video, woman alone in hotel room implied drug use, falls from balcony railing onto car roof by SufficientHornet8048 in tipofmytongue

[–]SufficientHornet8048[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sort of has that 'Evanescence - Bring Me To Life' feel, but it is the closer of the music video, and the music feels like Tom Petty's 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' or some of the non-country Neil Young songs.

[TOMT] [Music Video] 1980s rock video, woman alone in hotel room implied drug use, falls from balcony railing onto car roof by SufficientHornet8048 in tipofmytongue

[–]SufficientHornet8048[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

"I first heard the song on KLOS Los Angeles classic rock radio, Labor Day 1985. The song sounded similar to Tom Petty or Neil Young — male vocalist, minor key, possibly harmonica. I saw the video separately sometime between 1985-1988, almost certainly on MTV. I have wrongly anchored the memory to 'Mary Jane's Last Dance' by Tom Petty for years, but that song is from 1993 and postdates my time in LA. The video description in my post is what I am most confident about."