Tears For Fears! "Head Over Heels!"

First, someone please tell Katy Perry to never cover any ‘Tears for Fears’ songs ever again. Second, this is one of those songs that must be played at full volume. Third, glad this song had a resurgence thanks to the very odd 2001 movie, Donnie Darko, about a troubled teenager growing up in the 80’s that’s plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident. Uhhh….ok. What’s even weirder? The bunny is named Frank.

Annnnnnnnyway.

It was 1985. Tears for Fears released “Head over Heels”, the single off the Album Songs from the Big Chair.

Here’s something interesting. Bizarre, but interesting nonetheless. The band's name was inspired by a trauma-based psychotherapy process called Primal Therapy, developed by American psychologist Arthur Janov, which is used to re-experience childhood pain—(i.e.,felt ,rather than conceptual memories) in an attempt to resolve the pain through complete processing and integration--becoming "real." An intended objective of the therapy is to lessen or eliminate the hold early trauma exerts on adult life.

Never knew that till now.

The video to "Head Over Heels" is perhaps more famous for its parody version, which contains dubbed lyrics that poke fun at the video's visuals. The original promotional clip for the video (filmed at the Emmanuel College Library in Toronto, Canada) centered around Roland Orzabal's attempts to get the attention of a librarian (played by Canadian model, Joan Densmore), while a variety of characters (many played by the rest of the band) take part in shenanigans in the library. The final scene shows Orzabal and the librarian as an older married couple.

Check out the parody here. Pretty funny.