MARILYN · You Don't Love Me (1984) - MARILYN · You Don't Love Me (1984)

What this video is

Released in 1984 at the apex of UK androgynous pop, 'You Don't Love Me' reflects the commercialisation of the Blitz Kids aesthetic pioneered at London's Blitz nightclub. Marilyn (Peter Robinson) was one of several gender-transgressive performers — alongside Boy George and Steve Strange — who brought queer-coded visual culture into the mainstream UK charts via Phonogram Records. The video was produced in the same…

Why it matters

A key artefact of mid-1980s British gender-fluid pop, this video documents the mainstreaming of New Romantic androgyny as a commercial pop aesthetic. It bridges the Blitz Kids underground with Phonogram-distributed chart pop, and its warm, high-contrast cinematography typifies the aspirational but…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire) is a British-born filmmaker and music video director based in Los Angeles. He trained in architecture at the University of Bath before working at Stiff Records as a Press Officer. He co-founded…