Adam and the Ants the band was often seen as an early example of the New Romantic movement (though Adam Ant himself has always denied any connection with that movement). Lavish videos were produced for "Stand and Deliver", "Prince Charming", and "Ant Rap". All Adam and the Ants music videos were produced and storyboarded by Adam Ant. These videos helped to establish the band in the United States when MTV began airing them. "Prince Charming" features a guest appearance by British screen legend Diana Dors as the fairy Godmother, and "Ant Rap" features Scottish pop singer Lulu as the "damsel in distress". In addition,
Wicked fairy godmother such in Marius Petipa's ballet Sleeping Beauty with music by Tchaikovsky. In "Sleeping Beauty", the wicked fairy godmother comes uninvited to the princess's christening and declares that "because you did not invite me, I tell you that in her fifteenth year, your daughter will prick herself with a spindle and fall over dead." A good fairy mitigates the curse so that the princess will only fall into a deep sleep, and the king attempts to protect her by removing all spindles. On the princess's fifteenth birthday, the princess meets a spinning woman, pricks her finger on the bodkin and falls