Yer So Bad
| "Yer So Bad" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| B-side | "A Mind With a Heart of Its Own" |
"Yer So Bad" is a song co-written and recorded by Tom Petty. It was released in 1990 as the fifth single from his first solo album Full Moon Fever.
Content
It tells from the singer's viewpoint about his greedy sister being lucky enough to marry a yuppie, then got divorced and took the yuppie for all he was worth in the proceedings and is now a swinger dating another singer while her ex husband can't get anyone interested in him, is possibly bankrupt and is considering suicide ("head in the oven"). In both verses, the singing brother of the sister can't decide which is worse but is sure what happened to his ex brother in law won't ever happen to him because the singer has "you to save me" and that in "a world gone mad", "yer so bad". Its music video shows their wedding reception with Petty himself as the photographer no less, then dissolves to a less than blissful scene of two Los Angeles County (?) sheriff deputies hauling the resisting husband out of their marital house while he tries unsuccessfully to take as many possessions that he can to his car that he drives off in and dissolves to a National Enquirer-type newspaper with a front page article about it in bold print block letters called "CHEATING HUSBAND'S HEAD EXPLODES", then later dissolves to a bar where the wife, apparently a singer herself, is laughing and flirting with one of the band members (drummer) who later goes home with her to the former yuppie couple's luxurious spacious house while the expelled husband, after driving down Los Angeles (?) freeway, checks into a cheap motel across town where he opens a metal briefcase revealing a blow up doll that he's inflating as his new artificial "companion". A construction scene appears with a new house being built and a construction worker wearing a T-shirt that says DIE YUPPIE SCUM while sumo-like men are shown dancing on the house's construction site playing cymbals. The video later dissolves to the ex husband driving in his convertible with his blown up doll next to him in the front seat trying to keep it seated in heavy traffic and later ends by showing him walking down the street carrying the doll in public.
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