In the 1990s, music videos became not just big-budget works of art, but also vital parts
of musicians' marketing campaigns.
Some of them starred beautiful women who became cultural icons.
Here's a look at what those "video vixens" have gotten up to since then.
Bobbie Brown, who spells her first name with an "i-e" at the end, is not to be confused
with makeup tycoon Bobbi with an "i" Brown or New Edition singer Bobby with a "y" Brown.
This Bobbie Brown is actually one of the most recognizable music video stars of all time.
Hair metal videos often featured scantily clad women, and Warrant's "Cherry Pie" is
one of the classics.
It stars Brown wandering around a white space in a red halter top, sucking on cherries,
and dropping slices of cherry pie in her lap.
And wouldn't you know it, she ended up marrying Warrant lead singer Jani Lane in 1991, although
they then divorced in 1993.
After some more music video appearances, Brown segued into acting, often typecast as a blond
bombshell in small parts in things like Married… with Children and Last Action Hero.
In 2013, she joined the reality circuit as a part of the Canadian series Ex-Wives of
Rock.
That same year, she published her memoir Dirty Rocker Boys, in which she detailed her recovery
from drug addictions as well as her ongoing battle with the compulsion to pull out her
own hair.
Alicia Silverstone appeared in a trilogy of three massively popular Aerosmith videos in
the early nineties.
She wasn't a "dancing around and pouting" video vixen, rather, she was a real actress,
and she proved it in these clips.
"Cryin'" features her dealing with a nasty breakup and finding peace.
In "Amazing," she plays a virtual reality dream girl, and in "Crazy," she flees private
school to have some wild adventures.
"Was that weird to do, all the kissing and…"
"Yeah, you just do it."
Those videos all received heavy rotation on MTV, launching Silverstone to a legitimate
acting career.
In 1995, she starred in the thriller Hideaway as well as the cultural touchstone Clueless.
That year was followed by plenty of other roles and a career that's still going strong.
In addition to her work in film and TV, she's also a vocal supporter of animal rights and
an advocate of the vegan lifestyle.
The phenomenal success of the 1987 album Appetite for Destruction gave Guns N' Roses a blank
check, creatively and financially.
So they went ahead and released not one, but two albums in 1991, Use Your Illusion I and
II.
To promote these two albums, the band made a series of expensive, symbolism-heavy cinematic
videos, connected by a loose narrative theme of love and loss.
In "Don't Cry," model Stephanie Seymour and singer Axl Rose brutally fight over a gun
while Seymour wears a tight tank top.
And in "November Rain," Seymour marries Rose while wearing a skimpy wedding dress and then
tragically dies.
Seymour also dated Rose from 1991 to 1993, a relationship which descended into domestic
violence allegations and lawsuits.
"That's really a drag."
As one of the original supermodels of the early nineties, Seymour used that goodwill
to be the face of various campaigns well into the 2000s.
More recently, she launched Raven & Sparrow, a high-end lingerie line.
Back in the late seventies, Meat Loaf had his big moment with his mixture of hard rock
and deep-throated show tunes on his massively successful album Bat Out of Hell, which was
certified 14-times platinum.
After a cool period in the eighties, he returned with the smash hit Bat Out of Hell II: Back
into Hell in 1993.
The lead single, "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" went all the way to
#1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It's partially a duet, with session singer Lorraine Crosby providing the female vocals.
The woman who appears in the epic video, however, is not Crosby, but a model named Dana Patrick,
who lip-synced to Crosby's vocals while she ran around a castle and hung out on a magically
floating bed.
This was the first time Patrick appeared on screen.
She was cast on the strength of an audition tape she made for a Levi's commercial that
wound up in the hands of the video's director, none other than Michael Bay.
After her big break, Patrick starred in another Meat Loaf video, "I'd Lie for You (And That's
the Truth)," and scored bit parts on a few TV shows including Seinfeld.
“Annabell, Justina, and Nicki, they used to model."
"Oh, modeling!
What's that like, fun?"
Patrick is now retired from acting and runs her own Los Angeles-based photography business
specializing in portraiture.
Blink-182 is a punk rock band, and what's more punk rock than a unified marketing message?
In 1999, the trio released the album Enema of the State, whose cover featured a woman
dressed as a smoking hot nurse.
That same woman also played a nurse walking down the street in the video for "What's My
Age Again?"
That's the one where the band members do various public activities without any clothes, which
is ironic because that clothed model they encounter, Janine Lindemulder, earned her
living in the buff, as the star of dozens of adult films in the 1990s.
Around the time of "What's My Age Again?", Lindemulder walked away from the world of
adult entertainment to raise her kid and work as a kindergarten teacher.
A few years later, however, she was back in the adult industry.
She also made headlines for some personal issues.
In 2002, she married motorcycle customizer Jesse James, and a year later she wound up
in prison for assaulting him.
They divorced in 2004 and then got into a custody battle over their daughter.
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