Devendra Banhart / Photo by Lauren Dukoff
If you hadn't heard, folk weirdo-cum-Charles Manson/Jesus Christ composite Devendra Banhart cast his uber-famous lady friend Natalie Portman in the video for his cut "Carmensita," from last year's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, just before she became his betrothed. In the hilarious clip (viewable below), he and his girl play Bollywood dress-up along with the sweet Spanish ode.
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But the video's release -- which emerges nearly 10 months after putting out a largely looked-over record -- just happens to coincide with Banhart's exposure to the masses through every gossip blog and celeb rag around. But were the motivation that calculated and not merely a creative response to his soon-to-be muse, it's just another entry in the archive of music-video nepotism, which generally involves a male artist casting the drop-dead gorgeous apple of his eye to give the clip a pretty little boost. (Hills nightmare Heidi Montag tapping her beguilingly loathsome boyfriend Spencer Pratt to direct her first vid is a whole 'nother matter.) As such, we've compiled a list containing some of the most egregious offenders of the famous more-than-friends cameo.
Devendra Banhart - "Carmensita"
