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The Most Bizarre Juxtaposition in the History of MTV

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (35)

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I wasn’t going to post this, but I desperately need to exorcise it from my brain, and the only way I can do it is to inflict on the rest of you. This is a fucking music video, and it’s three months old, even, so it’s not even my department. But I have to get it out of my brain.

I was at the gym this morning, where I tend to flip back and forth from VH1 to MTV, just to see what the kids are into these days (apparently, a lot of Fray and a lot of Fray knock-offs, and an All-American Rejects song that sounds like a cast off of Chumbawumba).

And this video for a Jamie Foxx song came on. The video is directed by Hype Williams, and the song is so processed it’s a wonder they even needed an actual performer to sing it. It’s atrocious. It’s a fairly mediocre video: A bunch of guys sitting around a hip-hop club and drinking whiskey. And it wouldn’t have really caught my attention much but for one thing: It’s got an impressive cast of cameos in the video. Sam Jackson, Forrest Whitaker, and Jake Gyllenhaal all trying to act like badass pimps hanging with the ladies and getting their drink on. I’m being obstinately white here because the other guy in the video, hanging with his homies and sipping on bubbly, is Ron Howard. Motherfucking Opie, y’all, is flashing the blank stare and trying to look tough. Jesus: I nearly fell off the treadmill laughing so hard. I kept waiting for the big reveal, but it never arrived. This is for real. And as far as music videos go, it’s the most unintentionally comical video I’ve seen since George Michael’s “Faith.” Ron Howard and T. Paine, y’all. Get your _____ on.









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Comments

And Poor Ron looked soooo uncomfortable in the car.
It's hilarious!

Posted by: Shazza at May 14, 2009 10:02 AM

Asking someone to watch this video is proscribed by the protocols of the Geneva Convention.

Arrghhh.

Posted by: spielcat at May 14, 2009 10:06 AM

Jamie Foxx is a confusing character. I like and loathe him, depending on the situation.
For instance, right now I like him for convincing Ronnie to do this. Only way ginger's getting laid is by stumbling upon some chick with grandaddy issues hepped up on goofballs.

Posted by: Kballs at May 14, 2009 10:07 AM

–==Seekingtall.Co m== --.Where you can meet tall and sexy girls

Posted by: emma white at May 14, 2009 10:11 AM

Jake: Hey Ron, it's Jake. How about we get the crew together and head down to the cluuuub, and you know, kick it like judo or something.

Ron: Word. I was going to play raquetball and have a dinner party, but getting my swerve on could be fun.

Jake: Yeah, there will be bitches, brews, and Panda head guy's gonna be there! oh, and T-Pain.

Ron: T-Pain?

Jake: You know, black guy... voice sounds like a kazoo f*cking an electric tooth brush.

Ron: Oh, that T-Pain. Let's roll out homie.

Posted by: J Stride at May 14, 2009 10:12 AM

Also, not to get in T-Pain's business, but wouldn't his pants get smaller? Something to think about...

Posted by: J Stride at May 14, 2009 10:13 AM

You go to a gym?

And is this video supposed to be a 'real' video, or a tongue-in-cheek thing? (Plase say the latter...)

Posted by: courtney at May 14, 2009 10:17 AM

Upper class "thugs" talkin' how hard it is when yo Bentley don't get detailed.

That's RIGHT! nigga.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 14, 2009 10:17 AM

Did... did that really just happen?

Did... did I drop acid this morning by accident? I feel weird.

Posted by: TK at May 14, 2009 10:18 AM

I don't understand T-Pain's sense of style. Are gilded top hats really a thing, now? I mean honestly, are they really a thing? Stop it.

Also, did anyone see Foxx's "performance" of this song on Idol a couple weeks ago? Absolutely atrocious. Just seriously bad.

Posted by: Snath at May 14, 2009 10:18 AM

haters! y'all know ron howard is a straight pimp!

Posted by: gp at May 14, 2009 10:20 AM

That was like Auto Tune my nightmares.

Posted by: Cara at May 14, 2009 10:22 AM

what a random mixed bag of cameos.
like they got the guestlist from the last oscar ceremony and threw darts.

Posted by: samma at May 14, 2009 10:24 AM

"voice sounds like a kazoo f*cking an electric tooth brush."

too. funny.

Posted by: gem at May 14, 2009 10:26 AM

Someone please prove to me that auto-tuning was not created by SkyNet and spambots.

Posted by: branded at May 14, 2009 10:31 AM

OK, seriously, I just watched it again. I... I think I'm seriously fucked up, because I just hallucinated Ron Howard in a hip hop video.

My teeth itch. Does anyone else's teeth itch? I... something's not right.

Am I dying?

Posted by: TK at May 14, 2009 10:38 AM

So basically this is a commercial for the joys of date rape? Fun.

Posted by: LyL at May 14, 2009 10:47 AM

Jamie Foxx/T Pain "Blame It" video production
Director: Hype Williams
Director's notes: Day One

now i know we had some initial problems - i thought we'd have to cancel the whole day after that asshole from Terminator strangled all the lighting guys except Red Jerry - but i have to say, you guys really made it happen out there today.

kudos to all our principals - nice work on the "fish out of water" look, Ron. You too Jake. (man, you ripped as a MF. we should work out together). and who can forget the fine work of my man Depardieu - G, that year of mask training at Le Coq made you the BEST panda-head in the game, no DOUBT.

another big day tomorrow, so get plenty of rest, study your source material (side note: can we get Ron another copy of "Alcohol-Fuelled Date Rape For Dummies" and "Hip Hop Cliches"? He says Michael Cera lifted his) and let's come back tomorrow and make sure this bitch wins every award they GOT.

HW

Posted by: Ed at May 14, 2009 10:47 AM

They could have at least put his daughter in the video instead. She was the best part of Spider-Man 3. Compared to The Village or Lady in the Water, it was like she suddenly grew up and sprouted some seriously wicked curves, and that smile is a fucking knockout.

Posted by: Snath at May 14, 2009 10:48 AM

How weird would it be to get "jumped in" to this eh...gang, by Oppie and Donnie Darko.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 14, 2009 10:55 AM

Hatless R. How scares the shit out of me.

Posted by: icecreammang at May 14, 2009 11:06 AM

It's ok TK! It's ok! Come away from the TV. I have a slinky for you to play with! It's ok, see look, sliiinky. It's fun! You don't have to worry about that awful autotuner nightmare with ron howard anymore.

Posted by: JenVegas at May 14, 2009 11:13 AM

I was just waiting for this to segue into "I'm on a boat". I have never heard anything else T-Pain has done and I am fairly certain that SNL sketch is gonna be the highlight of his career when he looks back in 10 months.

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at May 14, 2009 11:14 AM

If yer watchin' music videos at the gym...
then yer doin' it wrong.

I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: Rykker at May 14, 2009 11:19 AM

Heeeey... slinnnnky...

Did the walls just hiccup?

Posted by: TK at May 14, 2009 11:26 AM

Holy shit, I love that video. Muthafuckin OPIE, y'all. GOLDEN.

If Gwen Stephanie can sample The Lonely Goatherd, why can't Opie Taylor hang out in the skrip club with T-Paine and Jaime Foxx? Y'all be hatin'.

Posted by: Cletus at May 14, 2009 11:39 AM

The PANDA SUIT. Ron Howard is amazingly NOT the oddest part of this video. I have watched this video, mesmerized, over and again trying to figure it out but no one can explain the panda suit... I blame it on the Goose. Or perhaps, the Henny.

Posted by: Jenn at May 14, 2009 11:44 AM

"Blame it on the da-a-a-a-a-a-ate rape!"

If it's not playing hair metal, gym is doing it wrong.

Posted by: Sweetie Dahling at May 14, 2009 1:03 PM

Jeez, Ron, I thought Clint was the ugly one you have caught up to him brother. Yes you have

Posted by: westguy at May 14, 2009 1:18 PM

Also, not to get in T-Pain's business, but wouldn't his pants get smaller? Something to think about...

HAAA!

I like you, J Stride. Your made-up conversations are gold!

Posted by: figgy at May 14, 2009 1:42 PM

The comedy here is intentional, trust me. At least the beginning part is. I didn't watch the rest of it because it started to get annoying.

Posted by: KatieSIJ at May 14, 2009 3:53 PM

I'm going to have to watch that again, just to be sure I saw it right the first time. I'm pretty sure that there's a child in that club, in addition to the Opie and the dancing Panda. I don't know which to be more disturbed about.

Wait - yes I do. WHY THE HELL IS THERE A PANDA INVOLVED?!

Posted by: elisamaza at May 14, 2009 5:22 PM

Hello? McFly? I sent this to Stacey for Love months ago. Where ya been Dustin?

Best part- The guy in the panda head. Seriously. Why is there a guy dressed like a panda?

Posted by: cmoody at May 14, 2009 6:09 PM

Isn't the Panda Suit a Kanye diss? You know how he has that bear mascot and all...

No? Ok then, carry on...

Posted by: ceejeemcbeegee at May 14, 2009 6:23 PM

Is T-Pain actually a performance artist in deep cover? Because that would sort of explain everything.

Posted by: Joe the Plumber at May 14, 2009 7:11 PM