David Hasselhoff's Music Video 'True Survivor' Is a Beautiful, Strange 1980s Journey
"True Survivor" features dinosaurs, kung fu and Hitler.
— -- Gunfights? Kung fu? Dogs with lasers for eyeballs? Hitler? Dinosaurs?
Sure.
David Hasselhoff's latest music video, “True Survivor,” was released Thursday and features a strange, beautiful mix of 1980s themes -- from computer hackers on PCs to street riot sequences that would make Steven Seagal proud.
The video -- which mimics the trailer for the upcoming movie “Kung Fury” -- opens with The Hoff driving a police car, approaching three street thugs.
“Hey, you got a permit for those guns?” Hasselhoff asks, according to the video.
“I got your permit right here,” one of the men says, using a skateboard to flip Hasselhoff’s car into the air, naturally. A gunfight ensues and Hasselhoff erases the bad guys before landing in a split as flames erupt behind him.
“Permit denied,” he says.
Hasselhoff, spirited as ever, sings beside a DeLorean-like car, bathed in pink smoke. Synthesizers play in the background. Dinosaurs roam. Flames billow. Bad guys get kicked in the face. You almost expect KITT, Hasselhoff’s smartcar in the 1980s series “Knight Rider,” to emerge, but that will have to wait for another adventure, another time.