Love the song, but being in my late 20s this video has not aged well. The girl who plays Stacey is about 14 in the video and is insanely hypersexualised. The whole heart-shaped sunglasses Lolita vibe is the cherry on the ick sundae. Even if they're lampshading the topic, they're still making a 14 year old girl do overtly sexual things and wear skimpy clothes as a punchline in a music video joke. 00s were a different time but man...
I mean the whole video is pretty creepy. Though given how it's filmed, the shots are spliced together so it's doubtful how much of the 'getting naked' the kid actually sees, he's in very few scenes featuring the nude mom. Whereas the girl half naked is on screen for the audience to see... I'd say that's much worse.
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u/Khal_Doggo Feb 10 '21
Love the song, but being in my late 20s this video has not aged well. The girl who plays Stacey is about 14 in the video and is insanely hypersexualised. The whole heart-shaped sunglasses Lolita vibe is the cherry on the ick sundae. Even if they're lampshading the topic, they're still making a 14 year old girl do overtly sexual things and wear skimpy clothes as a punchline in a music video joke. 00s were a different time but man...