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Victoria
The Exponents / Dance Exponents , Music Video – 1982
from the album Prayers Be Answered (1983)Just about everyone in the clip was playing themselves. The one piece of actual acting required was for Jordan to impersonate someone who smoked! Very unconvincingly I may add ...– Director Simon Morris, September 2009
She was just a lucky woman who ended up living with an asshole, and the song was written about why she lived with him. He was always beating her up, or there was always some sort of violence going on...– Songwriter Jordan Luck on the woman who inspired the song, in documentary Through the Eyes of Love (21 minutes in)
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