Proud Mary

Every time that job hunting season rolls around, which can easily happen more than once a year, I find myself looking for "Proud Mary" on Youtube. Something in me wants to believe that I have the option of tossing everything out the window and hitching a ride on a riverboat. The biggest problem with this plan - I live in the desert. Still, it's always nice to hear that song again.


Of course, whenever I search for it, there's a decision to be made: Creedence Clearwater Revival, or Tina Turner. The Creedence version has the obvious advantage of being the original, but it doesn't make you dance around uncontrollably in your chair. The Tina Turner version is much more in line with the rebellious mood of a nearly unemployed animator, but it has several disadvantages: first of all, in every concert version, you have to suffer through a stupid little "nice and easy" speech that she's been doing since the seventies. Secondly, and speaking of the seventies, if you choose a clip from the Ike Turner era, it's hard to enjoy it without thinking about domestic violence. Then again, whichever Tina Turner video you pick, there'll be lots of legs in it.


Here are three options: the Creedence original, the most 80s of the Tina versions, and one thats Ike-included, beautiful but always disturbung:







P.S. The Ike one is the best, there's no getting around that.