The 30 Worst Music Videos Of All Time

From: NewNowNext

#3 

“Rock Me Tonite” 

Billy Squire

AKA “The music video that destroyed a career,” “Rock Me Tonite” was actually Billy’s biggest hit song on the pop chart (although I’m still surprised Foreigner never sued for ripping off “Cold As Ice”), peaking at #15 in September 1984, but the video became one of the most infamous in music history.

There is a debate about who’s more to blame for the disaster, Billy or director Kenny Ortega, but the damage was done. You can read a lengthy history of how the debacle happened on Wikipedia, but it boils down to “Squier himself, and many other observers, believe its blatant homoeroticism alienated a significant portion of his fan base (predominantly teenaged boys at the time) and ruined his career.”