Florida Spring Break Flashback: Vanilla Ice “Ice Ice Baby” in 1991
The Spring Break invasion is here in Florida this month. College students from all over the United States are flying in to Miami and Tampa to overdo it and blow off steam. Police are on the scene to keep the order at the beach. But let’s face it. Nobody did Spring Break like we did back in the day.
MTV always sent their camera crews to Florida every March to capture our wild antics. They filmed episodes on the beach for shows like Remote Control and Club MTV. (Wubba wubba.) But the best part of MTV Spring Break coverage was always the live concert performances.
Vanilla Ice brought the party to Spring Break 1991 with this remix of “Ice Ice Baby.” Filmed in Daytona Beach, Ice promised if there was a problem, yo, he’d solve it. He cooked MCs like a pound of bacon. The most comedic part of this video clip is the drum set on the stage. I’m not sure it got much use, but the drummer looked like he was having a good time.
I unfortunately never got to go to Spring Break here in Florida. Mine were spent in the frigid northeast. I went to college in Boston and was a typical poor college kid so busting out hundreds of dollars to fly down to Florida and get a hotel wasn’t an option. So I stayed glued to MTV all weekend when they did their Spring Break specials from Daytona Beach. As a Floridian now, it’s funny to watch all these college kids in beachwear. Spring Break weather in Florida is often not so summer like. We know how cold it can still get in March. But the MTV producers had hours of TV to shoot and they made anyone on camera rock the beach gear anyway.
MTV Spring Break Memories
