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Moloko - Fun For Me

Music Video
ArtistMoloko
SongFun For Me
DirectorBill Fishman
IntroNo
OutroNo
LabelWarner Brothers Records
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

The video presents Moloko as a playful, stylized performance act rather than following a conventional narrative. Róisín Murphy appears in a series of exaggerated poses and costume-led tableaux while Mark Brydon and studio imagery frame the duo's offbeat electronic persona. The editing leans into the song's dream logic, matching its rapid-fire images and nonsense rhymes with theatrical gestures, graphic compositions, and a knowingly kitschy visual tone. Different versions emphasize either the duo's eccentricity, a medical-themed setting, or the song's comic-book atmosphere.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "Fun for Me" was first released in the United Kingdom in 1995 as part of Moloko's debut era, alongside the album "Do You Like My Tight Sweater?"
  • More than one promotional video was made for the song. The commonly circulated versions include the original 1995 video, a 1996 re-release video often referred to as the "Nurse Version," and a 1997 US version known as the "Party Version."
  • The US version was created in connection with the song's inclusion on the "Batman & Robin" soundtrack. Its visual approach drew on the movie's heightened comic-book aesthetic rather than presenting a straightforward performance clip.
  • The song was written and produced by Moloko members Róisín Murphy and Mark Brydon. Its surreal lyric imagery helped establish the eccentric, mischievous performance style that became central to Murphy's early public persona.
  • "Fun for Me" gained a new audience in the United States through "Batman & Robin," where it appeared on the soundtrack album released in 1997. The track reached No. 4 on the US Dance chart.
  • The song also appeared in a Lucky Strike advertising campaign in Spain, giving the track another prominent visual context outside the music-video circuit.
  • The video's deliberately artificial look fits the track's hybrid sound, which draws on electronica, trip-hop, acid jazz, and club music without settling into a single genre.

Lyrics

I dreamt that I was dreaming, I was wired to a clock,
Tickled by the minute hand tick tock tick tock,
I dream I'm on a train and it is making music,
I don't remember getting on clickity click clickity click,
I dreamt that I was very tall, I was bigger than King Kong,
I heard the bells the bells a'ringing a'ding dong ding dong,
I dreamt that I was sitting in the devil's company,
He gave a solemn promise fe fi fi fun for me,
I dreamt that I was chasing the monster out of me,
I caught him in the corner ha ha hee hee hee,
I dream I'm in a tunnel between here and now,
Scooby do-be where would you be bow wow wow wow,
I dream I'm at a crossroads no place left to go,
...
© Moloko - Fun For Me. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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