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Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed
Love Child
"Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love
Child" is a song by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, released
Video
on the album Root Hog or Die! in 1989. The music video, produced by Nixon (under the pseu-
donym T’Boo Dalton) and directed by Scott Kalvert, fea-
tures Nixon and Roper with lookalikes of Tiffany, Astley
"Incubating the incubus" and Collins—and actress Winona Ryder as Debbie Gibson.
Known for their cultural parodies, Mojo Nixon and Skid Ryder (who once called the video "my favorite role of
Roper released two EPs and four full-length albums in the all time") wears a wedding dress and gives birth to "a
1980s; their 1989 LP, Root Hog or Die!, considered by many Bigfoot baby, all covered in fur" with the requisite two
fans to be their best, contained "Debbie Gibson Is Preg- heads.
nant with My Two-Headed Love Child" as its lead sin- However, MTV (perhaps fearing legal action) de-
gle. In the song, Nixon not only asserts that he is the fa- clined to add the video to its regular rotation, despite
ther of Gibson’s child, but is also married to her (with having Nixon as a network spokesman (itself surprising,
Joan Collins performing the ceremony at a chapel in Las since Mojo had first won fame with his song "Stuffin’
Vegas). He also manages to insult Rick Astley ("a panty- Martha’s Muffin", a reference to then-VJ Martha Quinn).
waist"), Spuds McKenzie ("hate that dog") and Tiffany Mojo and Skid did perform the song on MTV’s late-night
("wrestling in Jello") along the way, all in just two min- 120 Minutes (even then, Nixon was forced to mumble the
utes and three seconds. The song is not, however, a direct word "fornication"), but the channel’s refusal to air the
attack on any one artist, but rather a parody of tabloid video led to Mojo Nixon severing ties with the network.
gossip (hence the title) and pop culture in a similar vein
to Weird Al Yankovic’s "Headline News" of several years
later.
External links
Not surprisingly, the song caused a bit of controversy. • Original video
Gibson herself was even moved to write an answer song, • Live on 120 Minutes
"Stuffy White Girl", which she planned to release as a b-
side, but ultimately thought better of it. It did give Mojo
his first Billboard chart appearance, as the tune peaked at
#16 on the Modern Rock listings in the summer of 1989.
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Categories:
• 1989 singles
• Mojo Nixon and Skip Roper songs
• 1980s song stubs
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