We start off with lead singer Travie sitting
on what might be a hotel bed, looking very sad despite the fact that he’s
wearing a very stylin’ hat. Cut to Neon Hitch wallering around on another bed
somewhere else, also looking sad, probably because some fool has painted the
wall behind her a very ugly shade of red. Apparently the theme for this video
involves depression and mattresses. Hopefully things will pick up a bit real
quick, maybe after somebody orders some room service.
Neon starts singing, which is a tricky thing
to do when you’re flat on your back, and this inspires her to wander over to a
window and Travie to go wash his face in the bathroom. But even being clean and
having a nice view is not enough to offset the sadness, so they both go back to
their beds and waller around some more. Maybe they need to call that room
service guy back and make sure he’s bringing some type of alcohol with the cobb
salad and fries that they ordered.
Travie starts doing his part of the song, but
it’s a little hard to catch what he’s saying because I’m distracted by what
appears to be a stuffed monkey nestled against the pillow behind him. (There
also appears to be a man playing a guitar while seated in a chair off to the side.
Did he come with the room?) Then Travie starts doing something with his fingers
while he wanders around the room, and we have a quick montage of the other band
members being unhappy about having to do things like waking up in the morning
and packing their suitcases.
Meanwhile, Neon is still distraught on her
own bed. She appears to be crying, but I’m not sure if this is because she
can’t find anything decent to watch on TV or if the excessive amount of jewelry
she’s wearing on her hands is preventing her from getting out of the bed. We cut back to Travie and the band gang as they are
boarding a tour bus while carrying luggage that looks just as depressed as they
are, followed by a phone call between Travie and Neon where he apparently says
something that makes her throw her phone across the room so the maid can pick
it up later.
Then we have another montage, this one
involving Travie being nice to some fans who don’t even look old enough to ride
the big rides at amusement parks, Neon sitting on a couch and singing to one of
the cushions, Travie rapping on the tour bus while wearing an odd red helmet
that was picked out by a stylist who should be fired, and various band members
standing around a swimming pool while wearing non-bathing attire and looking
bored. This is starting to look like one of those foreign films where people do
cryptic things, nothing makes sense, and yet the movie wins 700 awards at
international film festivals.
Next up is a bit with Travie rapping again,
but he throws me by using the word “bogusness” and I don’t really catch
everything that is happening. There’s something about a close-up of Neon, a
potential drug deal, people talking with their hands, excessive use of bandanas,
and Neon possibly finding a new lover on the urban streets of whatever city
she’s living in while supposedly waiting for Travie to get his ass back home.
Then it’s Neon’s turn to sing again, so she
and her vibrant hair do this for a while as we get random images of Travie
still being dissatisfied in his hotel room, travel shots of the tour bus
driving down streets with no names, red barns and cornfields (are they doing a
tribute to Green Acres?), interesting
but out-of-context architecture, and Travie pounding his fist on an innocent
window sill that is simply trying to hold the window in place and really
shouldn’t be blamed for anything.
Travie kicks off the bit where he just does
some spoken-word poetry, once again on the phone with Neon, and you would think
this would settle her down some, but instead she decides to climb on the roof
of her building and start singing while wearing an outfit that you can only
pull off if you have lots of hair that has been dyed a color that previously
didn’t exist on the planet.
This transitions us to some footage of a live
concert where the Gym Class Heroes are rocking the house, mixed in with shots
of the band members doing non-concert things like diving on a bed while wearing
orange long-underwear and drinking beer in a bar where people still think it’s
okay to do fist bumps. There’s also something about people playing cards, cars
driving down other nameless streets, rapid-flicker shots of trees, fire escapes,
more barns, a possible sighting of Simon Cowell, and fire-hydrant abuse.
We wind things down with Travie driving a
motorcycle up to the building where Neon is still twirling on the rooftop, her
shimmery tresses blowing in the wind. Then she decides to run get some Chinese
take-out, and she encounters Travie on the sidewalk. (Does he not have a key to
her building?) As is the custom when pop stars return home from a tour, Neon
greets her man by leaping up and wrapping her legs around him while the jaded
New Yorkers passing by completely ignore them as they head to the deli for a
nice pastrami on rye….
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