![]() Read more: The 30 greatest love songs of the 1990s, ranked The song is often thought of as a ballad about unrequited love, but Isaak has said that the song was actually inspired by a telephone call from a woman seeking to arrange a casual sexual affair, and is about "what happens when you have a strong attraction to people that aren't necessarily good for you". He was aged 33 when 'Wicked Game' was released. This was his third album, and before had largely released 1950s-style rock music and sophisticated R&B. Who wrote 'Wicked Game' and what is it about?Īmerican singer Chris Isaak wrote 'Wicked Game' for his 1989 album Heart Shaped World. ![]() So watch it in all its Lynchian glory below.This has even led to Dazed magazine pondering whether it might be the most influential love song in modern music.ģ0 years on from its chart success, let's look back at the history of Chris Isaak's masterpiece: The video hasn’t really surfaced since the VHS release…until now. Well, in Lynch’s version - made as an extra for the VHS release of “Wild At Heart” - he keeps the black-and-white motif for Isaak and his band, and throws in some clips from the movie. You remember the original right? It was the Herbs Ritts directed black-and-white spot that featured Isaak and supermodel Helena Christensen sexily frolicking around a beach, while Isaak’s falsetto shattered your glassware. I just haven’t.” And while that’s a bummer, it seems there are still bits of pieces of the director’s work that are worth revisiting.ĭangerous Minds (via Flavorwire) has dug up an alternate video to Chris Isaak‘s “Wicked Game” directed by Lynch himself. “I’ve got some fragments that are coming, but not the big idea…If I got an idea that I fell in love with, I’d go to work tomorrow. ![]() ![]() “I haven’t gotten the big idea,” David Lynch recently told 24 Frames about the prospect of future movies from the helmer. ![]()
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