How the conversation *should* have gone:
Director: Hey! I've got a great concept for your music video!
Her: Awesome, let me hear it!
Director: Ok! First, we're going to have you swing around on a big
wrecking ball. Don't worry, it won't knock into anything with you on
it....
Her: Hey, that sounds really fun, I used to play on a tire swing when I was little and I loved it! It'll be like I'm a kid all over again!
Director: Great! You're going to be wearing a white wife beater and underwear....
Her:...Um...well, ok, I guess that keeping it simple is good. It's
kind of like wearing a swim suit or work out clothes. I'm going to need
to have freedom of motion, so ok...
Director: And then we'll also have you be naked...
Her: Naked?
Director: On the wrecking ball.
Her: Wait, WHAT? Naked?! On construction equipment? I don't think
so -- Is that even hygienic? Ew, think of the dust....No, that's just
not cool.
Director: Ok, ok, wait, but it's symbolic to your lyrics!
Her: You're supposed to be the creative guy, can't you think of
anything else symbolic than being naked on a wrecking ball? That's not
gonna fly. I'm not going to be naked straddling a wrecking ball. Nope.
Gross.
Director: Well...what if we give you a sledge hammer too?
Her: I don't see how that really makes it better....buuuut....will I get to break stuff with it, though?
Director: Yeah! You can totally break stuff!!
Her: Ok...breaking stuff is cool...
Director: And also you can, like, sing to it and kind of, um, dance... on it...
Her: Wha....
Director: Like a microphone on a stand or something. You know, just sing to it.....and stuff.......
Her: Do I still get to hit things with it?
Director: Oh yeah, of course!
Her:.... Ok, I'm still listening....
Director: And maybe....like...if you....I don't know.... lick the
sledge hammer? You know, I think that would really, um, really,
*resonate* with your audience.
Her: Me licking a sledgehammer?
Director: Yeah
Her: With my audience of teenagers?
Director:..... yeah...
Her: Wtf? What planet do you come from that this concept makes sense?
No. I'm not, licking a sledgehammer. Not gonna do it....
Director: Wait wait wait, but these are good ideas! Just hear me out!
Her: No, you're crazy....
Director: And we want to give you long blindingly white acrylic nails....
Her: That's it. This is ridiculous, I'm out of here. *throws something, storms out*
The end.
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