In an attempt to end over-told jokes about there no longer being a need for the M in MTV, they've created Supervideos. SVs take songs by, at least so far, artists that MTV doesn't play and hires actors and directors to make music videos for them.
I suppose I appreciate the sentiment: using the actor's star power to attract people to hear new music. But there are a few problems. First of all, the "stars" that they used for the video to Cult's fantastically dreamy-but-playful "Go Outside" are Emma Roberts (Julia Robert's neice of Disney channel "fame") and Dave Franco (James Franco's brother of Greek "fame" [seriously, no one watches that show] and also one of the new cast members who ruined "Scrubs"). The other problem is that the video kinda sucks. Hard. Watch below.
Favorite part: when they run because they see a Mexican. Yea, that's what I do too.
Apparently the band agrees with me, because not only did they not promote the SV at all, but they went as far as to tweet that the real video is coming soon and that this is "just an MTV show", completely writing it off. Burn.
**BONUS** - Also worth checking out, but this time because not only is the song dope but the SV features cutie Anna Kern: LCD Soundsystem's "Pow Pow".
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