Kanye and Jay-Z Are Always Appropriate: The Great Gatsby Trailer

So, after quite a while, Baz Luhrmann has decided to make another feature length film! Yay!!! And this time ladies and gentlemen, he is taking on the American classic that all high school students have to read (or at least SparkNote): The Great Gatsby. Trailer and discussion to follow, but first, for those of you who are wondering who is Baz Lurhmann and why should I care? Here is why you should care: he is the genius director behind one of our favorite movies of all time Moulin Rouge! And, for those of you who like edgy re-makes of Shakespeare classics, he also directed Romeo + Juliet with Claire Danes and Leondardo DiCaprio. It’s a pretty awesome version actually and surprisingly true to the text. We legitimately really like both of those movies and maybe cry every time we watch Moulin Rouge! IT’S REALLY HARD TO WATCH EWAN MCGREGOR CRY OKAY?

Clearly, we really like Baz Luhrmann and his unique style of directing and creative vision. So much so that we wanted to look up what else he has done and it turns out that, well…. he hasn’t actually done that much. He has completed a grand total of four feature length films in the past and… two of them were great? We have already mentioned that we really like Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet, but his other two films were ok. There was that grand epic Australia that maybe seven people saw, and Strictly Ballroom which is about competitive ballroom dancing. We realize that Strictly Ballroom is actually a pretty decent movie, but it is not quite on par with Moulin Rouge! So basically Baz Luhrmann is kind of hit or miss with us, and while he definitely is an amazing director, we didn’t really know what to think about him helming The Great Gatsby. But then the trailer came out.

Whoa, wait, what??? That actually looked kind of cool. But, at the same time, we are not 100% convinced that this is going to be awesome. We are definitely going to see it… but until we see more we still have our doubts, which is why for this trailer, we have our list of WINS and then Questions.

WINS

• The use of Jay-Z, Kanye and Frank Ocean’s “No Church in the Wild”. We like Kanye and Jay-Z a lot, can you tell?
• The casting (besides an age difference discussed below) is actually really spot-on. Tobey Maguire especially looks like he will be a perfect Nick Carraway, and despite age concerns, Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan will be great as Gatsby and Daisy.
• The cinematography and costumes look SPECTACULAR. To be expected from a Baz Luhrmann movie, but still impressive. We will be shocked if they aren’t nominated for Oscars at least in these two categories.
• It’s coming out at Christmas, so the studio thinks this movie is a real awards contender… so hopefully it really is that good!
• The 1920s is actually the perfect decade for Baz Luhrmann’s imagination. We think he should continue to make films set in this time period so he can continue to re-imagine the Roaring Twenties as even more ridiculously awesome and bedazzled!

Questions

• Age difference between Leo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. In the novel, Daisy and Gatsby are supposed to be about the same age. In real life, Leo and Carey are 11 years apart… and it looks like they are.
• Ummm… where is John Leguizamo? We thought he was in all of Baz Luhrmann’s films… maybe he’ll have a surprise cameo as his character from Moulin Rouge! Fingers crossed people!!
• What? This movie is in 3-D? We don’t particularly approve of this new 3-D trend which unfortunately makes us pay more money to see movies… and it seems particularly unnecessary when filming a literary classic.

So, the jury is still out on this movie, but we will definitely still see it to make up our minds! It is a shame that we all have to wait until Christmas to see this one and finally decide: is this another Moulin Rouge or another Australia? Let’s hope, for all our sakes, for a hit.

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Katy Perry Trying to Take Over

Summer is Katy Perry’s season–we’re sure that she would agree. Her entire wardrobe is designed for it, in fact, as you can kind of tell from how tiny all of her dresses always are. It seems that Katy is determined to dominate 2012 just as she’s dominated the last few summers. A quick refresher on Katy’s monopoly on summer radio for the last few years:

2011: “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
2010: “California Gurls” and “Teenage Dream”
2009: “Waking Up in Vegas”
2008: “I Kissed a Girl”

Can you believe that we are now in the fifth summer of Katy Perry? We kind of can’t. We kept thinking that she would stop being so popular, and yet here we are. Katy seems focused on making 2012 her biggest summer yet, with the release of a 3D concert movie created to make her seem more relatable, friendly, and talented, as well as placing blame for her recent divorce fully on Russell Brand. Here’s the trailer:

So evidently Katy Perry is AN ARTIST, Y’ALL. Not a stereotypical pop singer as we might have thought. “Every song has something to do with her life,” we are told by some rando who is never identified.

It also becomes very clear in this trailer that Katy is making a movie to show herself as someone overcoming adversity and becoming a international superstar–despite those awful people who would have tried to hold her back. Like Christians. And Russell Brand.

Look, we get that divorce sucks, but the contrast in how Russell and Katy have behaved is striking. Russell is consistently very nice about Katy, recently saying, “I still love her as a human being.” Katy, on the other hand, seems to be very willing to talk about the divorce pretty explicitly. It’s pretty clear she’s planning to in the movie, and let’s take a look at the lyrics for her latest single “Wide Awake”:

I’m wide awake
Yeah, I am born again
Outta the lion’s den
I don’t have to pretend
And it’s too late
The story’s over now, the end

Katy. Too soon. Too explicitly you telling Russell how much better your life is without him. No one believes someone who’s trying too hard, Katy–and when Russell Brand is out-classing you, you probably need to carefully examine your life.

Her movie does look like it would probably be a lot of fun, but we wish that Katy Perry would give us a little bit of a break from being a victim and just go back to shooting whipped cream out of her boobs. Play to your strengths, girl. We’ll all be more comfortable.

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We Reject Chris Brown’s Comeback.

 

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Look, this may have been said over and over again, but we feel like we have to just come out and say it one more time. Chris Brown is kind of the worst and he needs to be stopped ASAP. Why do people support him? Why is BET nominating him for awards? Why did the Grammys let him perform? Why did Rihanna collaborate with him?

We’re not saying that people can’t change, but from Chris Brown’s behavior it seems pretty clear that he hasn’t. He continually states that he’s been victimized by the press when dealing with his brutal beating of Rihanna in 2009, when it would seem to others that THE ONLY PERSON WHO WAS VICTIMIZED WAS RIHANNA. Additionally, he has proven that he has rage issues by throwing a chair through a window on the set of Good Morning America. That is not what the average angry person does.

And yet, people keep collaborating with Chris Brown, so that he seems to be having a legitimate 2012 comeback. What??? A brief list of his recent projects:
1.) New album titled “Fortune” that is coming out in July, on this he has collaborations with Will.i.am, Big Sean, Fuego, Wiz Kalifa and many others. Almost all of his songs feature another artist with him and we are confused. Why are these people working with him??
2.) Think Like a Man.We actually loved this movie but audibly groaned every time that he came on screen. Everyone else in this movie is so awesome, why is he allowed in it??
3.) “Right By My Side,” the Nicki Minaj single he’s guesting on. Nicki. Really? You get one pass, and Stupid Hoe was it. You’re out of passes on misogynistic crap.
4.) “International Love” with Pitbull. Dude. Pitbull, you have fans all over the world and have done awesome collaborations with Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Lil Jon, Shakira, T-Pain and Ne-yo. You also had the balls to sue Lindsay Lohan back after she tried to sue you over your lyrics. Pitbull legitimately has been on the rise in the United States and is insanely popular in other parts of the world. Why did you do this?
5.) “Next To You” with Justin Bieber. BIEBER. Come on, Biebs. Literally all of your fans are young girls. At least pretend like you care about them/setting an example/not hanging out with guys who BEAT WOMEN.

Basically we are baffled as to why so many people in the entertainment business seem determined to not only forgive him, but support his work, when he has not issued a genuine apology or even really showed any sign of remorse. His behavior is not acceptable and in the entertainment business, you can’t really separate the person from the artist. There does seem to be a contingent of people who do not support him (Tina Fey, Miranda Lambert, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen and others) and we appreciate them! Why are more people not like them? But, most importantly and fortunately, Jay-Z is on our side. If you agree with Jay-Z you know you’re on the right team. Watch below for proof.

DON’T YOU CLAP FOR CHRIS BROWN EITHER.

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The Surprisingly Decent “Battleship”

As previously documented, we love Friday Night Lights and Taylor Kitsch… enough to even see John Carter for him. Since Battleship was not only directed by FNL’s creator Peter Berg, but also co-starring Jesse Plemons a.k.a. Landry, we were immediately there. Alexander Skarsgard’s presence certainly wasn’t a deterrent, either.

What some haters kept saying every time we talked about Battleship: “That looks like a Transformers knockoff. Also, isn’t Rihanna in that? Why are you going to see a movie that Rihanna’s in?”

Well, haters to the left, because Battleship was actually surprisingly decent. Obvi there were some questionable points, but overall we really liked this movie!

Good parts:
-Rihanna. No, we’re not kidding. Weird outfit during the soccer game aside, she was surprisingly believable as a naval officer and kept it together throughout the movie. Also her chemistry with Landry was hilarious and awesome.
-Taylor Kitsch and Alexander Skarsgard as brothers. We would watch these two as brothers as many times as you wanted us to. It was so amazingly excellent. Skarsgard is like a foot taller than Taylor (not short himself) and their dynamic was just perfect. We completely believed them as brothers!
-FNL characters in Battleship. Basically Taylor Kitsch and Jesse Plemons got to keep on just playing Riggs and Landy, albeit with far more responsibility than either of them had on TV. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
-The entire first 15 minutes or so of totally-messed-up Taylor Kitsch. It was basically still Tim Riggins so obvi we loved it, but it was also an absolutely hilarious introduction to the main characters.

Questionable:
-Brooklyn Decker. Sorry, we just weren’t invested in the love story thing. Her entire storyline could have been erased, and really all we would have lost was one excellent exchange between Liam Neeson (playing her father) and Taylor Kitsch at the end.
-Those aliens. We didn’t really get how the ship survived even the first ten minutes of contact. The aliens seemed to ignore them at really convenient times. Like, if you were an alien who had managed to blow up everything else before, would you just kind of stop and get distracted with something else, leaving a ship alive? Probably not, because you are BLOWING UP EVERYTHING METAL. Come on.
-That force field thing around Hawaii. What? How did that even work?
-Alien ethics. Guys, are we really going to assume that when we first make contact with other forms of sentient life it’s just going to be all-out war? Do we not have more optimism than this? No efforts to communicate, even?

While this movie definitely could have cut 20 minutes of things blowing up without us being too upset over it (and still keeping like 40 minutes of things blowing up), overall Battleship exceeded our expectations and proved that Taylor Kitsch is capable of putting over some questionable dialogue… just not an entire movie of it. Sorry, John Carter, but Battleship wins.

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Miley Cyrus’ new movie: LOL

So, remember that Miley Cyrus movie that came out last week? No? Well, it’s okay, because no one else did either. We were literally the only people in the theater when we saw it. This is in part due to the poor advertising, but mostly due to the fact that it was a limited release film that unfortunately had the same opening date as The Avengers (that one superhero movie that just broke box office records with the largest opening weekend of all time). So, while literally everyone else in America was seeing The Avengers, we had the pleasure of seeing Miley Cyrus’ new film, LOL. And it was…. okay.

So while people may have been expecting this movie and Miley’s performance in it to be a total fail, it was actually a solidly mediocre movie. Miley Cyrus was actually kind of likeable in it, and we only giggled a couple of times at her acting. And to be fair, the lines that we giggled at could be blamed as much on the screen writers as on Miley’s acting (i.e. these gems: “I just feel so real with him” and “We just want to look like we don’t care, especially in front of the guys”). All in all, we feel like this was a good move for Miley’s career. It is a small movie with a solid cast and a storyline that is appropriate for her age. In light of all her public shenanigans lately we thought that LOL was the perfect movie for her – it is about being young, making mistakes and learning how to cope when relationships change.

All that being said, there were definitely still some moments where we laughed for the wrong reasons (as loudly as we wanted to in the empty theater) and were uncomfortable. Much like our own adolescent experiences, there were moments we LOLed at and lessons to be learned. Which is coincidentally, how we are breaking this movie down.

LOL-able / Questionable Moments

• Miley Cyrus is dating this grungy dude who is in a band called… wait for it…. NO SHAMPOO. Hahahahahahahaha. We think it was supposed to be hipster-ironic but it just sounds stupid.
• Miley Cyrus wore a turtleneck in one scene. Enough said.
• When Miley Cyrus got home she stripped down to take a shower while her mother and sister were in the bathtub together? We know this is a remake of a French film but still. We generally don’t have heart to heart talks with our siblings and mothers in the bathroom naked. It was weird.
• When having a party at her house, Miley Cyrus definitely let her friend drug her Grandma. We feel that rufie-ing your Grandma is wrong.

Lessons Learned

• We learned that Miley Cyrus can sort of act.
• The world now knows that Ashley Greene (from Twilight) is HILARIOUS. She was by far the best part of this movie and had the best one liners.
• Adam G. Sevani (from Step Up 2) has a career outside of dance movies!!!! We squee-ed when we saw him because he is our favorite!!!!
• Don’t ever have a teenage daughter because they are horrible and complicated.
• Demi Moore is still gorgeous and awesome!

This movie was pretty standard stuff for a Rom-Com-Growing-Up-Highschool kind of film. We wouldn’t particularly recommend that you go see it in theaters, but when it comes out on DVD and you have an all-girls sleepover coming up, this could be the perfect movie to rent.

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Payphone: Someone Needs to Veto Music Video Scripts

As is very clear this week at PopJudgment, we just love Adam Levine. He is unbelievably attractive, and as we’ve seen on The Voice, hilarious and super competitive. And when we love somebody, we support their career no matter what (i.e. actually paying $14 to see John Carter on behalf of Taylor Kitsch). And for us, supporting Adam Levine’s career has not been a very difficult thing to do. Maroon 5 (while kind of embarrassing to admit we like) actually makes pretty decent songs that we like to jam to in the car. When no one else is around. Obviously. But the music video to “Payphone” is just kind of difficult for us to get behind. Don’t get us wrong, we love the song! But, did anyone listen to the lyrics when they made the music video? Watch below to see what we mean.

Wait whaaa? Was that the right video for this song? Reading the YouTube comments we found that we were not alone in our confusion. YouTube user frankmic asked, “the very first why he run? Lol”. We don’t know frankmic. We just don’t know. And DiddiDsoljaxD echoed this sentiment saying, “I Dont Get it He Didnt Rob The Bank they Werent Going To kill him and the girl So Why did he run From The First Place o.O?? But I Like the Song”. Pretty much sums up our feelings on the subject dude. And lastly, our favorite comment from enzDC, who kept it succinct with a simple “f*ck the police”. Word. The police in this video are super confused about who actually robbed the bank and what they are doing in this music video in the first place. Maybe they are chasing him because they just wanted Adam Levine’s autograph? We don’t know.

While we can see how this might have started as a cool concept, it just did not transfer very well. If the song was called “I’m at a payphone because I just got confused for some bank robbers and no one believes me” we would be so behind this video. But, alas, it is not. It is difficult to pin down exactly when this video spiralled out of control, so we made a list of moments when we were just like “WTF?” Perhaps by reading through these we can all, collectively, decide just when the video went off the rails.

WTF Moments

• Adam Levine’s haircut. We recognize that this is his life-choice unrelated to the video. We still don’t have to like it.
• The opening where the payphone picks up and Adam Levine starts singing. Very musical theater.
• The bit at the office where Adam Levine and the love-interest in the video are both wearing glasses. This is the part where the music video director employs the old Hollywood trick of put-glasses-on-extremely-attractive-people-to-make-them-look- “normal”. They don’t. That girl is clearly a model and very hot and Adam Levine is the sexiest thing to ever happen to planet earth. YOU CAN’T FOOL US.
• The part where he grabs the gun and runs out with his girlfriend, and neither of them get hit by any bullets! Despite all of the ones that we see in the air! And then this starts the plot of the video where Adam Levine is being chased by cops for no apparent reason. Like what?
• This is not a WTF moment but it had to be mentioned. Wiz Khalifa is our favorite part because it’s like he knows this whole video is bizarre. His opening line is “Man, f*ck that sh*t” and from there the rest of his rap verse can be summed up as him saying, “Whatevvvss I’m rich and gonna go spend my money! Back off haters and suck it nameless ex-girlfriend!” We loved it. So random.
• The very end where Adam Levine escapes the cops only to have his car blow up for no apparent reason (a theme in this video) and his cell phone break. Which leads him to the payphone. Cue song.

This video is just strange and doesn’t really fit with the song at all. While we recognize that lots of music video directors take liberties, this is a pretty large stretch. We were expecting something completely different and were just really confused when we saw this. Please Maroon 5 go back to making music videos that make sense with your songs!

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The Voice: The Only Watchable Singing Competition

So The Voice crowned its second winner last night, but judging by the resounding (haha) success of its first winner Javier Colon, the actual winner doesn’t really matter that much. Let’s be real: while we’ve been obsessed with The Voice since last summer, the reasons don’t have much to do with the individual singers. Here are the real reasons that we love The Voice:

4. All of the other judges/coaches hate Christina. This is one of the funniest elements of the entire thing–Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine pretty clearly despise Xtina. Especially Adam. Xtina obviously has no idea and just keeps on keeping on being her diva self. Oh Xtina.

3. Cee Lo and that cat. Purrfect is the greatest thing about Season 2, no holds barred. That cat is hilarious and perfectly plays into Cee Lo’s desire to be seen as Dr. Evil… too funny. Also the fact that the show makes Carson talk about Purrfect and they even did a little retrospective on him during the finale. Ridic. This cat looks angry all the damn time and it is amazing. Blake can’t stand it, and Adam doesn’t like cats… We’re pretty sure that Cee Lo just got the cat to piss off the other judges. Cee Lo = maybe crazy but amazing.

2. How much Blake Shelton loves his team. Blake is pretty clearly the most supportive of all of the coaches. He has his teammates (the people he picked) come and perform with him all of the time. He’s having a bromance with Jermaine. He invites his wife to be one of the mentors on the show so that she can get to know his team. Basically Blake is probably going to invite all of these people over for Thanksgiving dinner, because he is that nice.

1. Adam Levine. Obviously everyone is already super aware of this, but Adam Levine is one of the most attractive people ever. See, look:

Mmmmm Adam Levine. So in addition to being crazy hot he screws with Xtina’s mind (that Team Xtina t-shirt was absolutely hilarious) and is overly competitive and super-invested in this competition. He might be a douchebag in real life but that sure doesn’t keep us from loving him on The Voice.

While we can’t sit through an episode of American Idol now that there’s no Simon and we’re boycotting The X Factor due to a lack of Cheryl Cole, we do love The Voice. At least they call their celebrities “coaches” instead of “judges” so we’re prepared for them not offering any real opinions!

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Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend”: Where’s the fondue?

Ladies and gentlemen after not only one, but TWO…. no wait THREE teasers…. no, wait, OMG FOUR TEASERS, Justin Bieber has finally released his music video to his new single “Boyfriend”. And let us tell you it was totally (not really) worth the wait. We we were disappointed when Justin Bieber was not pictured “chillin’ by the fire, while we eating fondue.” Instead he was pictured with a bunch of cars and a bunch of ladies. Take a look.

So that music video….didn’t that make you kind of uncomfortable? The song is fun but the video tries a little too hard. It’s like Justin Bieber is yelling at you the whole time, being like, “I AM 18 NOW AND CAN BE SEXY. I WANNA BE SEXY TOOOOOOOOOO! AND I WANNA HAVE SEXY LADIES AROUND ME! DID I MENTION IT’S OK FOR ME TO BE SEXY NOW?” It’s a little off-putting. At least for us.

However, despite its weird vibe, we recognize that this video is a fascinating turning point in the Biebs’ life. Much like Britney Spears used her single “I’m a Slave 4 U” (and yes… it is “4 U” not “for you”…. oh Britney) to promote her new bad-girl image after years of being a teeny bopper, Justin is using this video to show the word that he is now a real-live grown up. The baby-faced Biebs who belted out beautiful high notes is officially gone. Now we have an eighteen year old Justin Bieber whose voice has finally dropped… and it is a big change. In general we have mixed feelings about change. There are some parts we like and parts we don’t, so we’ve broken down this video for you into the good, the bad and the ugly moments so we can really appreciate Justin’s transformation in full.

The Good:

• Diversity: Good news ladies! Justin Bieber does not limit himself to a type (other than really hot) – he loves women of all races, ethnicities, hair colors, etc. This video proves it!
• The guy at 2:58 wearing a t-shirt that says “Chunky Bieber”. BEST THING EVER. It’s easily missed – you’re welcome for pointing it out.
• Justin’s Hair: It reminds us of Grease. Anything that reminds us of Grease is good.
• The random dance circle on the roof of a parking garage. We like dancing!
• It was directed by Director X (not a joke). While we laughed when we read his stage name, it turns out he is kind of legit. We checked him out on Wikipedia (our fave website) and he has directed a whole lot of Usher’s (Justin’s mentor) music videos. But more important than that, we found out he is the genius behind Drake’s “HYFR” music video, which for those of you who don’t know, is our favorite Bar Mitzfah themed rap video of all time.

The Bad

• The false start to the video. In addition to wasting almost 2 whole minutes of our lives watching all four teasers to this 3 and a half minute long music video, we wasted yet another thirty seconds watching the weird fake start to the song. WHAT?
• The sports car doing drag-racing type donuts in the parking lot at 1:16. Like anyone believes Justin is driving that car. NICE TRY DIRECTOR X. YOU CAN’T FOOL US.
• The part at 2:08 where Justin sings “I can be your gentleman” while blatantly checking out her ass. Real gentleman-ly bro.
• Fedoras. Why is anyone still wearing them? Let alone back up dancers in Justin’s video? MAKE THEM STOP.
• 1:48. Justin Bieber says the word ‘Swaggy’. We cringed and then checked…not in the dictionary. Like ‘Fetch’, the word ‘Swaggy’ is just not going to happen.

The Ugly

• Did anyone else notice this video’s eerie similarity to Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” video??? Because we did. The clothes. The cars. The gyrating. The only difference is that “Party in the USA” is more country-fied. Not cool Justin, not cool.

All in all, this video is uncomfortable – but so is growing up and going through puberty in front of millions of people. This video is just another example of child stars transitioning and coming into their adulthood in an overly-sexy way. In the end, “Boyfriend” makes us cringe, yes, but it also makes us curious about what this new, grown-up Bieber’s career is going to look like.

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Cher Lloyd: The Brits Get the Better Version

We here at PopJudgment are big fans of UK pop stars who have little to no presence here in the U.S. This means that since Cher Lloyd’s appearance on UK X Factor in 2010, we have been kind of obsessed with her. Cher is 18 years old and maybe kind of a brat but is also very cute and clearly very talented.

Cher Lloyd has decided to finally grace the US with her presence and she does so with… a very strange video. We did some investigating because we really do like the song, but the music video was strange – and then we discovered that there is another, secret UK video! Well… it’s not really secret. But there is a significantly better UK version. Below are the videos, and as you watch them, you, like us, might ponder, why did she make the second video? Why is the UK version so much cuter? What does this say about her perception of America?????

Cute UK version:

Weird US version:

A Quick Comparison:

• So for starters, in the weird US version, we were distracted because we were wondering, is that the same diner that they filmed Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You” in? We think so.
• Everything is slightly hipster-fied in the US one. Note: the boyfriend has ear gages in this one.

• Cher in the first video is cute and seems to just be kind of playfully messing with old picture. In the second video she is diabolically trying to destroy the new girlfriend’s life. Why, Cher? Why? She isn’t even cute!
• What on earth is Cher wearing in the diner in the US version? All of her outfits in the UK one are super cute, but that black getup is straight up weird.
• Let’s talk about Astro. We didn’t watch the X Factor US because of Cheryl Cole being fired (LOYALTY, PEOPLE), but apparently this is a 15-year-old rapper who appeared on the first season of US X Factor. What he is doing in Cher Lloyd’s UK video is unclear, but his presence is hilarious (especially since he looks 10) and much appreciated in place of the weird repetition Cher does to fill his spot in the US version.

In sum, why does the US version make us more uncomfortable? Are we secretly British? Or is the US version just poorly made while the UK one is awesome? We have come to the conclusion that Cher Lloyd has a fully developed public persona in Britain of being the cute girl who likes hip-hop from X Factor. However, her marketing scheme in the US is not really planned out yet… hence this odd video. Try again lads, please. Or don’t. Just market Cher Lloyd in the US the same way that you do in the UK! We will TOTALLY buy her album!

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