500 Days of Summer Adorable Indie Music Video. I Knew This Was Coming.
Did 500 Days of Summer just become even more indie and adorable? Unbelievable.
I guess though, when taking into account the many kinda cool, unpretentious musical references in the movie, and the fact that it actually stars Zooey Deschanel, a 500 Days of Summer themed music video set to She & Him’s “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here” isn’t really all that shocking. The Smiths headphones/iTunes incidents, karaoke to The Pixies (which I thought only happened in Brooklyn), and not one, but two Joy Division t-shirts were more than enough to establish the film’s indie cred without a completely adorable indie music video set to one of the star’s indie songs with M. Ward.
I always find it somewhat unsettling when musical artists of any kind are referenced directly in a film, especially in a quirky, limited-release romantic comedy that’s kinda cool, unpretentious, and completely adorable. No particular reason really, it just makes me uncomfortable. Like, the record store scene, where you know someone’s going to hold up a record and show it to the other person and make a comment about it. Regardless of the record or the comment, It makes me all tense. I guess I’m just worried that it will somehow devalue the music. Or be tacky.
Well, after 5 minutes of this movie I knew that wasn’t going to be the case. If Zooey Deschanel walked into an elevator with me and started singing along to “There is a Light That Never Goes Out” playing on my headphones, I’d fall in love too. The fact that The Smiths take up about 25 minutes of the soundtrack is actually perfectly acceptable. They pulled it all off quite nicely. My only issue is that the karoake bar had “Here Comes Your Man” and not “Born to Run.” Doubt it. Maybe in indie movie dreamworld!
So, whether you saw 500 Days of Summer or not, this is going to melt your indie movie heart. It’s basically 3 minutes of Levitt and Deschanel proving that they’re the cutest people in the world circa now, and solidifying insurmountable amounts of indie cred.
Posted: August 5th, 2009 under Poprok Rants.
Tags: 500 Days of Summer, She & Him, Why Do You Always Let Me Stay Here