Tina Turner - Better Be Good To Me

What this video is

Released in September 1984 as the third single from the multi-platinum Private Dancer album, 'Better Be Good to Me' arrived at the apex of Tina Turner's celebrated solo comeback. The song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985 — one of four Grammys awarded to the Private Dancer album at that ceremony. The video's theatrical,…

Why it matters

A defining document of mid-80s MTV-era pop-rock, the video codified the 'live concert as narrative' format — using a real venue, real audience, and kinetic performance to authenticate Turner's rock credentials while embedding a micro-narrative dramatic confrontation. It exemplifies how female…

The director

Brian Grant is a British music video and television director and producer. He began as a cameraman in the 1970s before co-founding MGMM Productions — the most successful UK music video production company of the 1980s — with Scott Millaney, Russell Mulcahy,…