from a brief history of popular music

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The Hag Spring quickly caught on, spreading like wild fire through the up to now dessicatingly sleazoid ranks of the record industry.
Pat Benatar was the first major artist to join Cyndi Lauper's revolution, insisting on casting plain people in her videos regardless of the perceived commercial risk.
Here was a particularly notable convert to the idea of not objectifying the human form for profit, since Pat Benatar herself was tolerably good looking, in fact an Aroogah, and didn't share the possible underhand motive which cynics attributed to Cyndia Lauper in using plain people simply to make herself look good.
Critics of Pat Benatar pointed out that her video for Stop Using Sex As A Weapon was itself paradoxically quite a sexy video while that her deeply felt principles about not exploiting the female form didn't prevent her from looking a million dollars in every performance.
But Pat Benatar had taken the revolution a step further. She not only cast plain women in her videos, she also hired men who were not conventionally good looking.
The ratty faced guy bossing the prozzers in We Are Young was a masterstroke and kudos flowed in.  Those nay sayers who argued that Pat Benatar was casting unattractive males because she was inherently feministically hostile to the male gender, were drowned out in the furore of approval.
Meanwhile the sleazoid record company politbureau were watching from the shadows.
They hadn't gone anywhere.
They were merely biding their time for a crackdown.