Originally, my only idea for this one was "those weird baby dolls that drink and pee." They always seemed to be a fixture on TV commercials targeted at girls, and they were never something I wanted for myself, but they were always around. While putting together the video, I quickly realized that there was a lot more in the song than there were clips of weird baby dolls on YouTube. Plus, I like these to be fun to watch, and I would not want to watch 5 minutes of just that.
As I was putting this together, it started to become something way more than I was expecting. Yet again, a stupid joke video has become an ominous warning about the dangers of nostalgia. Two of the Barbie commercials I used were toys that had controversial gimmicks - pregnant Midge, and Growing Up Skipper. I found it interesting that both were about "growing up," in a way, and I decided to run with that. All these weird baby dolls mimic "growing up" by way of making the child playing with them act as a mother, after all. And that's not inherently good or bad, it's just what you make of it. So is all of childhood and growing up. As I was gathering sources for this video, I kept finding people in the comments talking about how life was just better when a certain commercial was airing. The lyrics in the song, when not talking about piss, talk about wanting something else out of life. Then I realized, since this was the last song on the album, it matched with Goodbye, which I had already made a video for. Instead of analog sign-offs, I decided to make the final moments of the video channel switch-overs, particularly two I remember. I reversed the Adult Swim clip, as a sort of acknowledgement of the video itself finally admitting to growing up.
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