Music Video
The music video was directed by the team of Eric Williams and Randy Marshall, known as Fat Cats, and was shot in Los Angeles. It premiered on MTV's Total Request Live on March 24, 2005. It spent only four days on the countdown and did not climb higher than number eight. The concept deals with playing up the glamorous lifestyle of a celebrity while making a statement against the shallowness of materialism. The main message is that JoJo is "not the kinda girl" to lose herself in Hollywood. The video is known for having several cameos including Laurie Ann Gibson from MTV's Making the Band, Vincent Herbert, and Maynard James Keenan who plays the police officer. During the first half of the video JoJo is being driven in limousine through the Silver Lake neighborhood past such landmarks as the Figure 8 wall made famous by the Elliott Smith album cover photo. The second half is performance based and features JoJo getting her hair and makeup, and then dancing on a sound stage. This scene is contrasted in the end with JoJo walking away, wearing a hooded jacket, and listening to her iPod. Instead of a fancy ride she hitches a bus covered with an advertisement showing her album and the words "In Stores Now".
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Famous quotes containing the words music and/or video:
“To know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisements of Pears’ soap at the end of the libretto.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“These people figured video was the Lord’s preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. “He’s in the de-tails,” Sublett had said once. “You gotta watch for Him close.””
—William Gibson (b. 1948)