I was in a Dollar Tree yesterday – I don’t know how far and wide the chain spreads, but it’s basically an “Everything’s A Dollar” store – and in the midst of looking for this and that, I stumbled upon some video-tapes. There were almost exclusively Christmas-related…”Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and the like…but on one shelf, I saw a video bearing this man’s face:
If you don’t recognize him, it’s none too surprising; he’s not a household name, and if it can be said that he ever was, it was a status that he didn’t maintain for more than a few minutes. His name is Glenn Medeiros, and he had precisely two hits of note: “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You” (if you just cringed reflexively, it’s safe to say that, at the very least, your subconscious remembers how awful and schmaltzy the song is) and “She Ain’t Worth It.”
The latter song was a duet with Bobby Brown, and…well, it’s definitely better than “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You,” but the best bits are unquestionably Brown’s.
Okay, but enough about Glenn Medeiros’s hits. What I’m really curious about is, where in the living hell did this VHS tape – a collection of his videos – come from? It was released SIXTEEN YEARS AGO. Did it drop through a time vortex into our era? Or did Glenn’s mom start going through her things and realize, “Oh, dear, I think the sell-through date might be just about gone on these; I wonder if I can get at least a dollar each for them?”
How completely bizarre.
