I will sing you a love song

It's officially the holiday season and you know what that means, a celebration of love... and thereby here is a celebration of sappy love songs.

First, I went through classic love songs - which include of course, the perfect combination of love and Christmas, Wham!'s Last Christmas. This, naturally let to a celebration of 80s and 90s power ballads which brought me to Michael Bolton's Greatest Hits.... and HE HAS MANY.

Shall I list them? I don't need to. Except, I would like to highlight this: I'm about to take you on a journey that will blow. your. mind.

Said I loved you but I lied

It's not hard to understand why I love this song. It has the sweetest combination of Michael Bolton's hair blowing in the wind, Michael Bolton wearing a denim body suit, Michael Bolton making wide encompassing gestures to the heavens, Michael Bolton walking on water, as though he were Jesus.... With the addition of random purebread horses running through the water, like a classic Ralph Lauren Polo ad............ PURE early 90s gold.

But WAIT!

After a second glance at this music video, a little light pinged in my head. Ask anyone and they will attest to my photographic pop culture/ facebook stalking memory that I have not yet learned to put to a paying job - THIS LOCATION IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS BRITNEY SPEARS'S I'm not a girl, Not a yet a woman video.

I held my breath and took a look - JOIN ME.




... and it was true.

My GOD, yes, it's so good and I JUST went there. (Not literally, I didn't go TO Lake Powell......) At first, I wasn't sure....But then, I did a few quick screen captures and came upon this. DEFINITELY click on this to enlarge. Please.

You'll notice that the rock that Britney is standing on, is the one that Michael is standing next to and... I'm one sharp detective because I couldn't help but notice OTHER factors that the two have in common. Physically, they're blondes with long flowing hair, denim and skin over-exposure. They're both very emotional, very sexy, very popular.

AND obviously the directors of each video really wanted to utilize similar factors of this site, Lake Powell in the background (shown above) and the caves... The playing of light and darkness - chiaroscuro if you will... 

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Oh my. I'm positive this wasn't common knowledge before this point - has anyone else noticed this before me?

I'm not sure what to do with such an amazing revelation except share it. GOLD, pure GOLD. Just admit it. You know all the words to both songs and you wouldn't mind having Britney's body/ touching Michael Bolton's chest.