ABSTRACT
In the titular "What's Love Got to Do With It?" Tina Turner describes love as a plaintive appeal and presubjective affective force. There's patterning as well: opposites attract, it's only logical. Turner wants her beloved to know what this love is doing to her, where she's been, and the fear she might go there again. In the video, Tina walks (a little jerkily, but those legs!) through the streets of 1980s New York City, coming across people, some of whom she draws in before pushing them away, others with whom she shares a brief groove. But, she ends up walking on her own, longing, aggression, and joy pulsing in her song. For Sparky and Kit confronting reality directly means figuring out what part of their yarned out selves they can gather together. What kinds of energies need to be mobilized to confront their differences? Yet, they're made of the same stuff too.
