I don’t think there’s much I can say about this video that you can’t get from just watching the thing. More Chevy Chase in music videos is what I say.ĥ. Chase puts his heart and soul into this performance. So I’ve said that Sir Ian McKellen’s lovely turn in George Ezra’s ‘Listen to the Man’ inspired this list, but Paul Simon and good pal Chevy Chase did the whole actor-stealing-the-limelight-through lip-syncing thing years before those two. Altogether now: ‘ OoooOooOooo, Uptown Girl… !’ Owen? Ian? Joan? Anyway, I challenge anyone to watch that video and not tap their feet along to the beat, or start singing the chorus. In addition to Claudia Schiffer as the uptown girl in question (though really, who else could it be?) we get bonus cameos from the UK’s finest toff actors (actoffs?)… and that Welsh bloke. This was the 2001 Comic Relief single, and in many, many ways is a far more enjoyable video than Billy Joel’s original. Uptown Girl (Westlife cover) – Claudia Schiffer, Ioan Gruffudd, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Robert Bathurst, James Wilby, and Tim McInnerny You’ve got a samurai, you’ve got twins, you’ve got a giant Amazonian woman by the looks of it, and of course you’ve got Jake “not Maggie” Gyllenhaal ripping off a pair of tiny tennis shorts to reveal… an even tinier pair of tennis shorts. Come to think of it, if I had any of Timberlake’s talent and dashing good looks (and, God willing, one day I will) I’d put Scarlett Johansson in all my music videos just so I could snog her too.įirstly: whatever happened to Vampire Weekend? Secondly, I’m not sure what a tennis tournament has to do with guns, but this is delightfully silly. Johansson acting her beautiful socks off. Directed by acclaimed music video director Samuel Bayer, we get a story of jealous love and the damning consequences thereof. Melodramatic as heck, and seemingly just an excuse for Justin Timberlake to make out with Scarlett Johansson in a swimming pool, this video is not without its merits. What Goes Around…Comes Around – Scarlett Johansson Thankfully Rourke beats him to death and gets the girl. ‘Hero’ tells the story of Mickey Rourke’s titular heroic businessman on a hunt to get his girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt back from kidnapper Enrique Iglesias. Hero – Mickey Rourke and Jennifer Love Hewitt
UPTOWN GIRL VIDEO ANAYLSIS MOVIE
This got me thinking then (because Sir Ian isn’t the first actor to do something like this): what are the top ten movie star cameos in music videos? Here’s what we came up with.ġ0. An added bonus is McKellen calling him Geoff, and saying how much he enjoyed the song “Bucharest”. To put it more accurately, I have become quite obsessed with the song’s accompanying music video that stars the inimitable Sir Ian McKellen lip-syncing to the words as poor young George tries to sing it. Recently I have become quite obsessed with the George Ezra song ‘Listen To The Man’.