Synopsis

Robert Palmer performs the song in a stark studio setting, dressed in a sharp suit and surrounded by a lineup of expressionless female musicians. The women pose and play their instruments with mannequin-like precision while Palmer delivers the song with cool, controlled confidence. The polished black-and-white-inspired visual style emphasizes the contrast between his composed presence and the deliberately artificial band performance. Like several of Palmer's mid-1980s videos, the clip turns a conventional pop performance into a highly stylized image of glamour, control, and theatrical detachment.

Factoids & Trivia

• The song is Robert Palmer's cover of Cherrelle's 1984 hit, written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Palmer was struck by the irony of two men writing such provocative lyrics for a young female singer and chose to reverse the perspective by having an older man perform it.

• The video extends the visual concept established by "Addicted to Love": Palmer appears with a group of fashion-model musicians whose blank expressions and rigid movements make them resemble mannequins.

• The same model-band imagery was later reused for Palmer's "Simply Irresistible," creating a recognizable visual series across his mid-1980s releases.

• The video reached No. 1 on MTV on October 17, 1986.

• Palmer received a 1987 MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best Male Video for the clip.

• The models' apparent musicianship was largely part of the visual presentation rather than evidence of a touring backing band. This became a recurring point of trivia surrounding Palmer's model-musician videos.