We thought we'd takea chance to talk about a couple of our personal favorite topics -- hair metal and video vixens. Warrant's "Cherry Pie" video, along with being an editing masterpiece that serves as one of the highlights of the band's career, featured Bobbie Brown, one of the '80s most memorable video vixens.
Scantily clad girls are a great way to get people to watch your video; although thousands of videos have used this tactic, a few rise to the top of the heap as the most memorable. So, to that end, we've collected a list of the 10 most memorable video vixens of all time.
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10. Amber Rose (Ludacris, "What Them Girls Like"). Although she's probably morefamous for her love life, Amber stands out in the crowd of girls in thisvideo because of her distinctive buzz cut. Gorgeous bald chickscapture our attention, and Amber, with her perfect body and face, is noexception.
9. Rachel Hunter (Fountains of Wayne, "Stacy's Mom"). Although Hunterbecame famous in the '80s as the model wife of Rod Stewart, her turn asthe cougar-licious mom who gains the unrequited affections of this Fountains of Wayne song's tweennarrator made her a video vixen legend. Although Stacy's mom issupposed to be a hot older lady, Hunter was a mere 34 years old whenthis video was shot, proving that the term "cougar" really is relative.
8. Buffie "The Body" Carruth (Tony Yayo/50 Cent, "So Seductive"). Buffieis the rare hip-hop vixen who got featured as the main muse in thisvideo. There's no real way to say this delicately, so we'll just goahead and state for the record that Buffie has a gigantic behind(prominently tattooed with the word "tasty"). Her, umm, assets havegarnered her an appropriately sizable following.
7. Karrine Steffans (Jay-Z, "Big Pimpin'"). Steffans has also appeared invideos by LL Cool J and R Kelly, but what makes her most memorableis that she wrote several best-selling books about being a hip-hop videochick, including Confessions of a Video Vixen. Karrine spoke outagainst sexism in hip-hop after her video career ended, appearing on Oprah to talk about her experience.
6. Alicia Silverstone (Aerosmith, "Crazy"). Before Clueless, Aliciawas a frequent sight in Aerosmith videos from the early to mid '90s.This video, which also starred Steven Tyler's daughter Liv, is probably more memorable than the song itself. The plot is kind of like a sexy Thelma and Louise, without the bloodshed.
5. Tawny Kitaen (Whitesnake, "Here I Go Again"). Tawny was in severalWhitesnake videos. As was par for the course at the time, she got thegig by dating frontman David Coverdale. They were married for a meretwo years before they divorced, and, after a second failed marriage -- this time to Major League Baseball pitcher Chuck Finley -- Tawny eventually evolved into theplastic-surgery Celebrity Rehab mess we know and love her as today. Still, her car-hood acrobatics in the "Here I Go Again" are how she'll always be remembered.
4. Helena Christensen (Chris Isaak, "Wicked Game"). Christensen wasalready a supermodel by the time she appeared in this video. But her turn asa well-oiled seductress running on the sand secured her a place inmusic history, as well.
3. Bobbie Brown (Warrant, "Cherry Pie"). This video is an editingmasterwork, but who's paying attention to editing when you've got Bobbielicking pie off her fingers? After meeting on the set of the "CherryPie" video, 21-year-old Bobbie and singer Jani Lane ended up gettingmarried. After divorcing Jani, Bobbie hooked up with Tommy Lee and MarkMcGrath, among others, making her the government-cheese version ofPamela Anderson as far as serial dating of '80s rockers goes.
2. Melyssa Ford (Jay-Z, "Big Pimpin'", Sisquo "Thong Song", Usher"Yeah!"). Melyssa Ford stands out for, um, let's say acouple of reasons. Her exact measurements have been the topic ofdebate for years, but let's suffice it to say that they're astonishing. There's areason why she's so frequently been cast in videos for songs with a posterior-relatedtheme. Also, Melyssa had one of the longest video vixen careers on thislist, appearing in videos from 1997 til 2004.
1. Janet Jones (Van Halen, "Hot for Teacher"). Janet, who's been marriedto National Hockey League legend Wayne Gretzky since the mid-'80s, might actually be more famous for her role as thesexy teacher who made David Lee Roth get out his pencil in Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" music video. The rest ofher career has included such gems as Police Academy 5. No, hervideo vixen career didn't last very long, but her turn in "Teacher" isinextricably seared into the minds of a generation.
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