Girl On TV The Best

[Trotter]

Songs as celebrity booty calls: Yay or Nay?

Apr 10, 2009, 04:04 PM | by Leah Greenblatt - Entertainment Weekly
GIRL ON TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4iGDSjOpXc
BETTE DAVIS EYES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-RdAzkKlXY
CRY ME A RIVER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7p4mioawIA
YOU'RE SO VAIN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7bVD_DkM4


Much has been made over the past week of "Valentina," Prince's new LotusFlow3r ode to lusciously badonky actress Salma Hayek, in which he sings to Hayek's toddler daughter, "Hey Valentina, tell your mama she should give me a call/ When she get tired of runnin' after you down the hall/And she's all worn out from those late-night feedings/and she's ready for another rock and roll meeting."
His Royal Purpleness may be the first to actually proposition a baby to get to said baby's hot mom, but he's hardly the only one to use his musical platform as a sort of high-wattage Craigslist ad for celebrity booty. Blessedly disbanded boy band LFO' wrote their 1999 single "Girl on TV" for Jennifer Love Hewitt, who also starred in the video -- and apparently used to whisper to sad bandanas and frosted tips before turning her attention to ghosts.
How about part-time Moldy Peach Adam Green's bittersweet lullaby, "Jessica Simpson"? What the video lacks in actual JSimp cameos, it more than makes up for in dreamy ping pong rallies. We've also got Justin Timberlake's brutal Britney kiss-off "Cry Me A River" (complete with blond video doppelganger), a sort of come-on in reverse -- more of a stay-away, if you will. And a couple years ago, Neil Diamond even confessed that his smash "Sweet Caroline" was about Caroline Kennedy, who was (erm..) only eleven when the song first stormed the charts in 1969.
I'm strictly counting romantic odes here, not general celebrity name-checking (see R.E.M.'s Andy Kaufman-inspired "Man on the Moon" and Madonna's Hollywood Babylon roll call "Vogue"), though I'm sort of wondering if Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" counts. And lest I forget, the ever-mysterious maybe-it's-Warren-Beaty-maybe-it-ain't debate over Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"... Damn these clouds in my coffee!
What do you think, readers? Do you find this stuff charming or just weird? What other songs am I missing in my celebrity-proposition songbook?

[Trotter]

PS Thank-you to Jim for the above story....

[andrew r]

Thanks you two for this! Nice to see you Dave!

[SarahLove]

Thanks guys...

[maxdil]

Thanks

[Trotter]

Love looks really hot in the video.....

[zachlaka]

Shooby doo-wap & scooby snacks!

Thanks guys it was a great video and Loves Green dress was killer

[Trotter]

really loved her hair as well.....