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Devo - Whip It

Whip It was Devo's biggest hit in the US. It peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1980. The song was more popular for it's video than the actual song.

In an interview for Song Facts, vocalist Gerald Casale explains the origin of the song, "There was a feature article in Dude magazine on a guy who had been an actor and fell on hard times, he wasn't getting parts anymore. He moved with his wife to Arizona, opened a dude ranch and charged people money to come hang out at the ranch. Every day at noon in the corral, for entertainment, he'd whip his wife's clothes off with a 12-foot bullwhip.

She sewed the costumes and put them together with Velcro. The story was in the magazine about how good he was and how he never hurt her. We had such a big laugh about it, we said, 'OK, that's the basis for the video. We'll have these cowboys drinking beer and cheering Mark on as he's in the barnyard whipping this pioneer woman's clothes off while the band plays in the corral.'" Enjoy!

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