The first time I ever saw Tom Petty was when I caught the trippy Don’t Come Around Here video on MTV back in 1985. I was eight at the time so I thought the Alice In Wonderland imagery was pretty cool, but looking back at this video all these years later it turns out that there is some fucked up shit goin’ down in the clip.
As a white kid in the ‘burbs growing up during the ’80s we were taught two things pretty clearly: don’t do drugs and don’t beat up women. I guess Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers didn’t get the memo, because the video for Don’t Come Around Here No More features plenty of drug innuendos and thuggery.
Tom Petty basically beats up the beautiful and innocent Alice character throughout the video. First he throws her down a flight of stairs, and by the end of the video he is cutting her up and eating her. Hell, all of that happens after he feeds her acid! I can’t believe I didn’t realize how unbelievably messed up this video was until I caught Running Down a Dream last weekend. And I can’t believe my parents let me watch this shit when I was eight! Check it out for yourselves:
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