I just rememebered some other media shit that happened.
A QVC-like channel ran a Xmas special called "straight from the heart" This was in the fall of '88. They had a professional songwriter write a song that went like this:
"Straight from the heart
I'm really free
Learning to live again
Being me
And coming home
Is the best part
Of (something something)
Straight from the heart"
They had us learn the song (I can't believe I still remember it) and taught us choreography. That is, we had to sway our arms back and forth during the chorus and shit.
Then they brought a camera crew in and filmed us singing the song and filmed some tame raps. No motivating, the topic was something to try to induce emotions, something warm and fuzzy, and then we simply put our hands up. I think the rap was like, "who do you care about in here". Whoever was crying got called on and the whole thing was filmed.
I remember thinking "this seems so fucking staged".
Then they actually aired the thing on QVC Xmas morning to help them sell bullshit. I think straight got money for it too.
It's so telling now that we couldn't motivate. The producers probably saw that and said, "no fucking way, we can't show that!"