--- title: David Hasselhoff True Survivor Music Video description: The surprise ode to '80s action flicks is a must watch canonical: https://time.com/3826482/david-hasselhoff-true-survivor-music-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-17T15:41:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:51.375Z og:title: David Hasselhoff's New Video Is a Perfectly Ridiculous 80s Throwback og:description: The surprise ode to '80s action flicks is a must watch og:url: https://time.com/3826482/david-hasselhoff-true-survivor-music-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: David Hasselhoff's New Video Is a Perfectly Ridiculous 80s Throwback twitter:description: The surprise ode to '80s action flicks is a must watch twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # David Hasselhoff's New Video Is a Perfectly Ridiculous 80s Throwback by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 17, 2015 3:41 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Apr 17, 2015 3:41 PM UTC If you’re going to watch one music video today — or ever — make it the surprise video dropped by none other than David Hasselhoff. The video for “True Survivor” — which is from the Kickstarter-funded film _Kung Fury —_ is straight out of the star’s _Knight Rider_ days and while it doesn’t have his computerized car K.I.T.T., it does have a white Lamborghini, an overactive fog machine, fingerless gloves and a slick beat. The clip mixes up everything from keytars to[ 8-bit hacking](http://time.com/3052270/grunge-8-bit-music-video/) to dinosaurs, vikings, flamethrowers, roundhouse-kicking cops, people walking away from explosions without looking back and so much more. And naturally, it all ends with Hasselhoff riding a dinosaur into the sunset. The video bodes well for _Kung Fury,_ David Sandberg’s throwback martial arts comedy about a vengeful cop who travels back in time to kill the Nazis, but end up bringing in vikings and Thor to finish the deed. With a plot like that, it should be no surprise the film exceeded its Kickstarter goal of $200,000, and brought in well over $600,000. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3826482/david-hasselhoff-true-survivor-music-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3826482/david-hasselhoff-true-survivor-music-video/"},"headline":"David Hasselhoff's New Video Is a Perfectly Ridiculous 80s Throwback","datePublished":"2015-04-17T15:41:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:51.375Z","description":"The surprise ode to '80s action flicks is a must watch","url":"https://time.com/3826482/david-hasselhoff-true-survivor-music-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Music","Kickstarter","Music videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3826482/david-hasselhoff-true-survivor-music-video/","name":"David Hasselhoff's New Video Is a Perfectly Ridiculous 80s Throwback"}}]}] ```