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http://pdl.vimeocdn.com/04628/359/354568287.mp4?token2=1428648687_22eaf573f28535a3d1f17338770c1e56&aksessionid=4202bc02889efa055704df259f8c0fda0d0c430d1428634287

.......is this a joke?

You couldn't pay me to go see that...

Well yeah, it's not a real movie, it's a music video.  The song is forgettable but I think the video is pretty cute actually.

I think it's a pretty cool throwback to the 60s beach movies.  Mike posted about it a couple months back.  But before this gets out of hand, this is a music video, not a trailer for a movie.

I would see this ironically.   :P

Ohhhhh.....so who's the group? Is Kylie Hughes a singer these days?...

Take a deep breath, people, because the song that accompanies this, whatever, is produced by....

Earle Mankey.

No kidding. Look it up at his Wiki entry.

BTW, the band seen at 2:18 and 2:48 have pretty boss outfits on.

I think this is a great song!  Just downloaded it on iTunes.

Was it really difficult to tell that this is a music video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whz5HkH3PFg

Affirmative. Boring video too. But being positive me, it wasn't a waste of time for 2 reasons:
a) it only lasts 4 minutes.
b) I got to see Mike listening to the guy referencing the GV lyrics. Kinda in-joke.

This is music video (I get an error from the original link):

Kylie Hughes - Calipopicana
https://youtu.be/xSPP03Vl-Jc (https://youtu.be/xSPP03Vl-Jc)

What a mess, Mike only knows how to rip off past work even when only speaking. ::)

The chat between Mike and the slacker shoulda finished like this:

Slacker: "When I look in her eyes..."
Mike: "Then you'd better be seein' my co-writing AND co-publishing credit on this Californapoptarts or whatever it is buddy."

Also, putting Foskett in an Eric Von Zipper outfit would've been an alright touch.

One more plus the clip has - it namechecks Nirvana. (Though that should've been followed by a cut to Bruce saying "Grunge rock? Grunge? What's that?")

sounds like it's influenced by "Don't worry baby". not bad although it's weird hearing someone singing their own name in the third person...lol.... also she's cute..

The organ sounds like "You're So Good To Me."

What was the name of that young lady a few years ago who was making videos of herself covering Beach Boys' songs. Everybody immediately knows who I mean, right?

Cam,
Kayla Williams.

Oh, yeah. Thanks.

She's a graduate of Pepperdine, class of '11, majored in advertising. Which one could guess from this clip and her site.  The site has her entire six-track "album" as she calls it - I think she's a little too young to be familiar with the EP concept.  

As noted above, Earle Mankey produced it, with his usual skill. I could get through about a minute or two of the other five songs....one, "Dream Dream Dream" has a little BBs influence in the harmonies.  A couple of them are obvious efforts to get that Taylor Swift audience, so it's unsurprising that her site says she's doing a showcase in Nashville in a few weeks.

Here she is doing the unplugged thing. No doubt about it, pretty cute-looking, at least.

http://extratv.com/2015/04/09/watch-kylie-hughes-plays-acoustic-version-of-her-catchy-song-short-skirts/

(Her instagram feed has a pretty amusing pic of her with a confused-looking Lovester, which I linked to in the appropriate thread.)

I like that video a lot. It's full of clichés but fully aware of that and done with a lot of love. (And with Love also. ;D)

Answering with your own words:

So true, Micha! You nailed it.

:lol :lol  another low handed attention grab. What in the hell is grandpa doing in a video where he's 50 years older than everyone? Makes him look older than he already is especially with the hat.   ::) ::) 

Mike subscribes to the Fred Sanford idea that he's going to be a dirty old man until he's a dead old man.

Liking it to a degree. Mike's cameos are fun but he's a rather wooden actor to say the least. The visual refs to BBs are nice - SSafari cover, and Party! cover brought to life, kinda… interesting!

I wonder if, in non interviews and performances, Mike talks in phrases from Beach Boys songs? After all these years, I still find it annoying.

Mike's voice sounds bad. I found him hard to understand. I had to listen a few times to get that he just quoted BB lyrics. I hope his voice will recover.

I wonder if Mike's vocal degradation is due to overuse at too many shows? We know it's not smoking or drugs.

God what crap! Funny thing is, if this was on No Pier Pressure with Brian singing backing vocals, you can bet certain people on this board would be lining up to tell you how wonderful it is.

Could it be karma? :brow

Or, you know, simple aging. Happens to the best of us (and in my case, quicker than expected)!

Billy is still damn sexy though! ;)

Yup...I got that whole Carl Reiner thing going :lol

To be honest, all spoken parts are kinda hard to listen to, bad mics probably.

While I think karma may have bit Mike in some ways, I wouldn't count his voice as one of them. I think it's pretty obvious to correlate that he's put some major mileage on his vocal cords from the staggering quantity of shows he plays. In addition to age, of course, which is a no-brainer. I tend to think he wouldn't really care all that much about it to make any major changes, if it meant cutting back on the quantity. I don't think anything, but anything, even vocal degradation, would ever get in the way of Mike playing the amount of shows he wants to play.

Yup-just keep up the cash grab and screw quality which is the basic premise of the farcical M&B act.  ::) ::) ::)

This really needs to be a thread on the board. It has so much potential

Are you all deaf?? Mike only uttered California Girls. Listen to chap talking to him at 2:54, "sunlight plays upon her hair" etc. Mike: "What are you talking about?"

You all fell short by this evidence.

http://music.allaccess.com/an-interview-with-malibu-songstress-kylie-hughes/

An interview with Ms Hughes, in which she says that when she tried out her material for Earle Mankey at his studio, Jeff Foskett was present. That might factor into how the Lovester ended up in her video.  Though she doesn't say if Foskett is actually on her record.

I checked out the album on Spotify.  "Calipopicana" is the weakest song on the EP.  The others are pretty decent.  "Calipopicana" is too repetitive, and while I dig her voice, it's not right for the song (although I can't really express why).  The mix is also bad.  That's apparent in the video, and I was hoping that the actual track sounded better.  Nope.  I think this could be a decent song if:

1. The arrangement was changed to fit better with her voice and vocal style.
2. It were mixed better.
3. If Mike, Jeff or Bruce sang background vox.  The backgrounds are BB-esque, and you've got Mike in the video.  Why not feature Mike and crew on the backing?

This song could stand a second iteration.  The others are serviceable.

And she's pretty.

(http://photo1.ask.fm/521/940/602/910003000-1rr0qt3-2bo24gso16j4g3a/preview/file.jpg)

Why were we tricked into thinking this some sort of movie? It's something I would say a total ripoff.

Not something I want to see myself.

I don't think the goal was to trick anybody into thinking this was a movie.  I think the kitschy beach movie theme fits well, and the story line, choreography and filming are quite well-done.  Unfortunately they went too far by using the movie trailer format as the vehicle.  They should have dropped the trailer format and all the credits and this would have been fine.  As an amateur producer, it's odd for something so well choreographed and filmed to take such a wrong turn in production.

It sounds like Belinda Carlisle singing  to a Walter Egan track. It's cute. Too cute, really.