The Rembrandts: I'll Be There for You (1995 Music Video) User Reviews

The Rembrandts

[safenoe · 10/10 · 1 April 2024]

Phil Solem and Danny Wilde are the two member of The Rembrandts, who performed the massive hit I'll be there for you, for the massive sitcom Friends. Anyway, I'll be there for you was written by David Crane, Marta Kauffman, Allee Willis, Danny Wilde and Phil Solem, and the song brings so much joy with the four claps and the cast of Friends appearing in the video to add a lot of fun to the video. Anyway, it's hard to believe this video is nearly 30 years on, and yet it endures from generation from generation where it and the series is so incredibly popular and is symbolic of the 1990s and what lay ahead in the new millennium.

For friends of Friends

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 5 December 2017]

"I'll Be There for You" is a music video from 2009 (apparently) promoting once again the song in the title. But the song was released way earlier already and this is the one people know from the long-running comedy series Friends of course. By 2009, despite how long it was on air, it had already been over for several years, so it is a bit mysterious what this is. A reunion of some kind? Anyway, even if we say 2009, then this will soon have its 10th anniversary while the song is moving closer to its 25th anniversary. Here we see the band The Rembrandts performing the number and as they do, all the actors/characters from Friends enter the scene and they are goofing around a bit. Nothing too spectacular or memorable. The song is also very simple, but still somewhat catchy, but not on an artistic level whatsoever as the band name tries to tell us. So it is all basically pointless fun. If you like the show without which the song really would have been forgotten by now, feel free to check it out and appreciate the familiar faces. But it's nothing that will get you into watching Friends and I am positive the show is far superior to the song from what I have read and heard. So the latter (in combination with the music video) gets a thumbs-down from me. Deserves to be skipped except for the fanboys and -girls.