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Scarlett Johansson Was Going to Make a Music Video, But She Got Her Makeup Done Instead

Here’s the video from the first (and hopefully last!) single off of Scarlett Johansson’s improbable album of Tom Waits covers.

It pretty much plays like a glorified episode of Making the Video. It’s actually rather boring and unimaginative coming from a girl who decided she was actually going to make an album of Tom Waits covers. I was fully prepared for her to, like, dissect a pig and wrap its innards around her waist and then skip nude through the Rockefeller Center while wearing a turban and eating French fries. This is pretty tame.

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  • I’m random and slightly petty, I know, but I get a kick out of the fact that the “beautiful people” look every bit as shiny and blotchy as the rest of us prior to being coated in pancake makeup.

  • Wait! That’s not HER singing is it????? WTF? What a nasty voice for such a nice face. Yikes! That is sooooooooooooo 70’s. Blech! And yeh that video is so fucking boring. Screw me.

  • She reminds me of Niko and the Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale – sign along in a super tranny voice, “cause everybody knows…she’s a femme fatale…..” Super deep voice. Someone once told me that the blonde who gives Jim Morrison a blowjob in the movie the doors is meant to be her. Apparently he liked her deep voice….

  • The only good quality about this pile of pretentious hipster tone-deaf bullshit is that we all get to see how truly sallow and bepimpled ScarJo’s face is.

    The shot of those makeup artists covering that heinous tattoo was redonkulous!

  • I don’t know if this is the style in which Tom Waits sings, but to my ears it is truly awful. She sounds like a yowling cat!

  • ”The backup singer sounded better.”

    Well, it’s actually David Bowie singing with her on this song so yeah…

  • She sounded like Elmo with a cold. But I did enjoy her showing the world how truly boring and plain she is out her makeup team doing their job! Just a mere female mortal like the rest of us!

  • Oops, spell-check failed. Guess that is what happens when I have noodle arms after doing my Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred dvd. I meant to say “how truly boring and plain she is without her makeup team doing their jobs!”.

  • Ok guess what… I actually… kind of liked it. I mean… Tom Waits has a weird fucking voice too.. I like her cover better.

  • I made it 26 seconds in…Good lord, what were her agents thinking? what was she thinking? Is she trying to ruin her career?

  • she really is only pretty with all her makeup. and her voice is bad, not to mention even more of her vocal flaws are just covered up with alot of overdone reverb and other musicians and singers who are way better than her.
    she should stick to acting. oh wait! shes not that good at that either.