“Don't Be My Enemy” by Wang Chung

"Don't Be My Enemy" was the first single Wang Chung pulled from Points on the Curve in Britain, where it came out in July 1983 and scraped only to No. 92. America got it a year later as the album's third single, and it crept to No. 86 on the Hot 100 in September 1984. Jack Hues, Nick Feldman and Darren Costin wrote it, and Chris Hughes and Ross Cullum produced, giving the English band's new wave a sleek, glossy finish.

Dan Kleinman's 1984 video plays it as a slapstick magic act: a stage magician, played by Susan Olar, uses the band as her volunteers, making them vanish and sawing them in half. When Hues grabs and shakes her, he ends up grappling a mannequin, and just as she winds up for one more blow she spots the viewer and turns the trick on you.

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