This new Lenny Kravitz video

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One of the joys of being in a motel room for a few days is to indulge in TV pop culture, which I don't get to at home, since I don't have cable TV.

Unfortunately, one of the side effects is having to suffer through possibly some of the worst videos ever made. The new Lenny Kravitz video is one of them.

Directed by Lenny himself, the video starts, shockingly with:
* Lenny in his luxury penthouse hungover with hungover women all over him.. and various bandmates.
* They wake up and run to a jet to make a hot show... they continue debauchery making out, drinking, drugs, etc. inside the jet, in the same brownish color as the luxury penthouse
* Lenny gets on stage halfway through the video and his band karaoke's to the song.. kinda... there's the wannabe Jimi Hendrix Experience guy as guitarist, and a fine gentleman in a large top hot drumming. Even though the song is just basically bass, drums, and Lenny saying "i be runnin'!"... Ned wisely pointed out it's basically a bad cover of ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man"
* The climax of the video is when Lenny attempts to scrape off his bootyflakes on the keys of the piano on stage (which had no previous use in the video) with a frictional force enough to almost light it on fire
* Video ends with heavily scripted audience shouting for more while Lenny runs back to his dressing room, looks at himself, and realizes he's the ugliest human being to have ever walked the earth.

Any more musings on this plucky video? (never minding it's possibly the worst video ever made?)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Only Andre 3000 should ever straighten his hair. BLACK MEN: to avoid the Kravitz effect (which involves general across-the-board suckiness) it is best to avoid the perm

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

there's the wannabe Jimi Hendrix Experience guy as guitarist

ummm, besides Lenny, you mean?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Toosh-ay

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesingly enough, there was an interview but on vh1 (yes, they're playing the video there too) where one of the commentators was telling the audience "Did YOU know that Lenny Kravitz is influenced by Jimi Hendrix?"

Also, on MTV, they featured a brief interview segment with him about the video.. his words, re: his new hair style: "People don't dig change. I like change."

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

that's me told off

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

why is lenny always thought of as a hendrix wanna be? i hear far more 70s rock, i.e led zeppelin, solo lennon in our leonard's music.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a still from the video that immediately made me say "Wow- James Brown's face sure looks bloated!" Lenny's got to lay off the sauce.

Also, me suspects that receding and/or thinning hair had more to do with the style change than a desire to "Andre 3000" it....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

He must be the most humorless man in rock. Actually , the only person who looks like he's having any fun in the video is the drummer, he's alright. Though I miss the girl drummer, she was great.

And Lenny looks so stupid doing that ungainly high-kicking routine. No one but David Lee Roth can pull that off.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I know a dozen ladies at Radio City Music Hall who would disagree with you, Arthur.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha more than a dozen, Huck!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I only know a dozen of them though.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

carnally?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Did YOU know that Lenny Kravitz is influenced by Jimi Hendrix?"

Did you know Lenny Kravitz is Frank Marino incognito? Next album to be entitled either "Maxoom" or "The World Anthem."

― George Smith, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

If you are asking if I met them while I was operating the tilt-a-whirl at Coney Island, then yes.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the straightened hair thing works for a lot of people but it looks positively shit on Lenny. I have a trainwreck fascination with the video.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

As I also said to DB, he's turning into one of his idols at a rapid pace, namely Gene Simmons -- ie, he is now completely believing his own hype and can't NOT believe it because there is nothing else to be said or done.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

our of interest, who is DB?

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Don Bolles

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned is an L.A. luminary.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

DB is turning into Gene Simmons?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

lick it up, huck

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely, I'm not the only one who can see that this video is totally tongue in cheek and has, in fact, Lenny Kravitz displaying a sense of humour about himself and his image...

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I fully allow for the fact he's trying to do that. And has failed spectacularly (when you can tell the 'joke' from ten seconds in...).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"People don't dig humor. I dig humor."

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i kinda like this song actually.

you know i think i've seen two versions of this; i distinctly remember the one on BET (in the very wee hours of the morning!) ending with him crying in the mirror. i wonder if that got focus grouped out or something

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I know a dozen ladies at Radio City Music Hall who would disagree with you, Arthur.

But I never really thought of them as ungainly, Huk-El. DLR looks a bit more clumsy, but it works for him.

I love it when the Lil' Lost Noel Redding Guy looks like he's gonna puke on the plane. Poor thing.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

G--ff, that actually would have made the video a) 10 times more interesting, and b) ten times more hilarious. But alas, I've only seen the version where he looks in the mirror and he looks cold, clammy, and strung out as all hell... then end.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

There really are no words. Somehow I always manage to make myself watch this abomination start to finish, despite the fact that I've despised LK since the first time I was subjected to "Do You Wanna Go My Way?"

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I have hated him since his first album in 1989. It's been a long, slow burn.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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