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P. M. Dawn - Plastic

Music Video
ArtistP. M. Dawn
SongPlastic
DirectorMarcus Raboy
IntroNo
OutroNo
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

P.M. Dawn perform "Plastic" in an industrial New York setting, joined by DJ Cash Money and a live backing band. The video emphasizes the group's musicianship and stage presence rather than constructing a detailed narrative, cutting between close-ups, group shots, turntable work and performance footage beneath a bridge. Prince Be leads the presentation with a notably tougher edge than the dreamy imagery associated with the group's breakthrough material, while the urban location and rough surroundings reinforce the song's confrontational mood.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "Plastic" appeared on P.M. Dawn's second album, *The Bliss Album...? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence)*, released in 1993.
  • The song represented a harder, more openly angry side of P.M. Dawn. Its edge was linked to the hostility the group faced after its crossover success and the later confrontation involving KRS-One.
  • DJ Cash Money appears in the video. He later recalled that the shoot took place under a bridge in New York during bitterly cold weather.
  • Cash Money also remembered that his jacket caught fire during the shoot, after which pigeons reportedly soiled it. He joked that the garment was probably not meant to survive the production.
  • The video was included in P.M. Dawn's 1998 *Video Collection*, which gathered the group's principal early-1990s promotional clips.
  • "Plastic" was issued as a single during the 1993 campaign for *The Bliss Album...?*, following the group's major success with "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" and "I'd Die Without You."

Lyrics

Prince sing another song, its written on your face,
Instead I put pressure on the whole damn place,
I never liked running through the crowd with no proof,
So now I gotta flex in the steps of the truth,
Forever hearing Prince has to stick to his kind,
Prince make a love song about a tech 9,
I thought Prince Be had to be Prince Be
Yet they wanna riff when they find I disagree
With that dog eat dog, I'm a get mine
Even if I'm stepin on your frame of mind
You can ring things where the ringin' things at.
But Prince Be thinks its widdack
So now I'm accused of spikin' the punch
...
© P. M. Dawn - Plastic. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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