Dan Hartman - Second Nature

What this video is

Released in early 1985 as the fourth and final single from Dan Hartman's album I Can Dream About You (MCA Records, 1984), 'Second Nature' arrived during peak MTV saturation of the mid-decade pop-soul crossover moment. Hartman — a veteran of the disco era via 'Instant Replay' (1978) and 'Relight My Fire' (1979) — had successfully reinvented himself as a mainstream pop artist. The song reached No. 39 on the Billboard…

Why it matters

Represents the mid-1980s neo-Motown pop-soul synthesis that dominated MCA and similar major-label rosters during the post-disco, pre-new-wave consolidation. Produced by Hartman and Jimmy Iovine, the track and video demonstrate how disco-era artists repositioned themselves for the MTV generation…

The director

Edward Mori Griles (November 18, 1945 – October 22, 2024) was an American music video director and television producer. A School of Visual Arts graduate, he began directing music videos in 1979. He directed Cyndi Lauper's breakthrough 'Girls Just Want to…