ABC News reports:
An amusing, risqué music video, featuring a nubile young woman breathlessly singing her love for presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., appeared on the Web this week. Titled “I Got a Crush on Obama,” the song and video took the Obama campaign by surprise and further demonstrated how the democratic nature of the Internet — specifically Internet video on sites such as YouTube — is affecting politics in unpredictable ways…
An Obama campaign official said its team had nothing to do with the video, but otherwise declined to comment.
Some of the lyrics:
you’re into border security
lets break this border between you and me
And
you can Barack me tonight
I have to say: if I were Obama - albeit single - I’d give her a call.
Although:
As much as the news may break the hearts of thousands of Democratic men, Obamagirl, in reality, is not the pulchritudinous callipygian who riffs on policy with Akon-esque beats…
Rather, she is a fictitious creation.
The song was performed by Leah Kauffman, a 21-year-old undergraduate at Temple University in Philadelphia, who wrote the lyrics with a friend, 32-year-old advertising executive Ben Relles, and the music with her producer, Rick Friedrich.
An actress/model named Amber Lee Ettinger then lip-synched the song for the video, shot by filmmakers found on Craigslist two hours before Relles and Ettinger hit New York City one Friday in May to shoot the video on a DV camera.
I’d go for the actress: lip-synching is good enough.
Here is the video:
LOL- yesterday when I saw this post I thought to myself, “I should place a bet on this post being in the “Top Post” column, and sure enough, there it is. It’s a good thing that you always bring us these important stories, Michael, and that your readers make it a priority to view- er- read them over and over again.
What? Are you saying it’s not important?
BTW: I wrote about Gere and that Indian actress quite a while ago already, and I still get dozens of people who read that post by searching for the actress on the Internet
I had noticed that about the Gere post- that’s what made me sure about my prediction for this one, LOL.
Actually my nonprofit’s website had an incidental story about Spongebob Squarepants at one point (someone had donated some of the cartoon cels) and we kept it up for a long time afterward because we were getting thousands of extra hits from searches. I never would have thought that there were that many obsessed SS fans.