90's DANCE PARTY!!!

This song is FAN-TASTIC.  It embodies so much of what this website, and what great cheesy 90's music was all about:  A catchy piano hooks, a soulful black woman singing the chorus, and hands down one of the best snare rolls ever recorded.
I've watched this video way more times than I'd like to admit, and I can tell you with 100% confidence that it sucks.  After close examination of the narrative, or lack there of really, I've broken it down to three unique story lines that fail on every level.

1. Marky is getting ready for a fight.  But he's not doing it in a gym, so I imagine it's some sort of underground boxing match, where even the training has to be done super DIY on the DL.   It reminds me of a movie that came out around the same time called Gladiator (not the Russell Crowe one) about illegal boxing in the ghetto.  I bet if Marky Mark had gotten his acting game together earlier he would have done well in the role.

Violence is a strange choice for a song about good vibes and partying drug free.   I get that Marky had this tough street-kid-from-Bean-Town persona to keep intact.  It's basically an excuse to show him shirtless for four and a half minutes.  Granted, he looks awesome.  No homo.  Was Donnie that ripped?  They're brothers, so I assume they would have the same build.

Did I really just google search "Donnie Wahlberg shirtless?"

2. The second story line is pretty simple.  Marky's bangin' the hell out of some girl.  They don't appear to know each other well, which makes it super awkward -- Look at how uncomfortable Marky looks.  My best guess is she's a hooker, and he's getting one last good bang in before he goes into his big fight where he might die.  I know, I'm taking liberties here, but don't you see it?  Again, what the shit does any of this have to do with good vibes?

SIDE NOTE:
At 2:45 it gets really weird. Having just ran through this chick, someone (could there have possibly been a director on this video...? must find out) thought it was a good idea that he turns to her, lick his lips LL Cool J style, and tells her "Yeah... Can you feel it baby?  I can too."  What the hell does that mean?  It has nothing to do with what just happened.  He's already banged her?  What does she feel?  The good vibes?  I hate this video.

3. I lived in Massachusetts around the time this video was made, and I attended a lot of ditch parties, and this is one, but the real question here is why do they have to act so tough?    No one hears this song and thinks, "wow, those guys must be hard.  I don't want to mess with the funky bunch."  It's so forced.

The overall theme of this song is this: over compensating machoness.  Marky Mark made this great 90s dance song, which he should have been proud of -It's a great song.- But instead of embracing the cheesiness and lightheartedness of it, he had to gutter it up by showing how big his dick is/was.  I imagine later in life he realized how this was a silly way to approach life (and creative projects) and took the roll of Dirk Diggler.  I could almost forgive you, but then I think of you in a bandanna, and I hate you all over again.  Shame on you for making this video.