{"id":119065,"date":"2025-01-09T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/09\/youtube-records-are-made-of-this-eurythmics-join-billion-views-club\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:00:11","slug":"youtube-records-are-made-of-this-eurythmics-join-billion-views-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/01\/09\/youtube-records-are-made-of-this-eurythmics-join-billion-views-club\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube records are made of this: Eurythmics join Billion Views Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over 40 years ago a <\/span>music video<\/strong><\/span><\/a> featuring a woman with an orange crew cut and a bunch of cows became an MTV hit and a #1 single. Now it’s joined YouTube’s Billion Views Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eurythmics<\/strong>‘ 1983 clip for their synthpop classic “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” has racked up\u00a01 billion views on the platform \u2014 and it’s their first to have reached this milestone.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most iconic videos of the early days of MTV, it\u00a0features singer Annie Lennox<\/strong>, rocking a man’s suit and that orange crew cut and brandishing a cane while standing in a boardroom. Her musical partner Dave Stewart<\/strong>\u00a0is dancing in a field wearing a mask, and a lot of cows are seen wandering around.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lennox said of the video in 2017, “I was trying to be the opposite of the clich\u00e9 of the female singer. I wanted to be as strong as a man, equal to Dave and perceived that way.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Stewart said, “<\/span>I wanted to make a commentary on the music business but also make something a bit performance art \u2013 weird and dreamlike. So we mocked up a record-company boardroom in a studio … and put a cow in it, to signify reality. There we were: Annie and I laid flat on a table, and this cow, which was peeing everywhere.”<\/p>\n

“Sweet Dreams” was the duo’s only U.S. #1 hit, but they went on to score a string of bestselling albums, as well as other MTV hits like “Love Is a Stranger,” “Here Comes the Rain Again,” “Would I Lie to You?” and “Missionary Man.”<\/p>\n