Video: Drew Barrymore Directed A Big Budget Music Video For Best Coast

Perhaps in response to various assertions that MTV has nothing to do with music videos anymore, the network has established a new “Supervideo” project that gives “unique filmmakers the opportunity and artistic license to create a multitude of music video formats.” That all sounds wonderful. And what filmmaker has a more unique vision than storied auteur Drew Barrymore? Duh, nobody.

For Best Coast’s sad, sixties pop-tinged love song “Our Deal,” Ms. Barrymore decided upon a Shakespearean narrative of doomed love guaranteed to pull our heartstrings. She began by assembling two gangs of unparalleled cuteness; watch for Alia Shawkat and Donald Glover doing their best scary faces at :27 and :25, respectively, and then again at :44. Aw!

After a Day Trotter charms a Night Trotter (played by Chloe Moretz) with his flamboyant hand gestures at 1:04, they fall in love the way only a gay musical enthusiast and an Olivia Newton John lookalike can. But their love is not meant to be! A few misunderstandings, a rooftop dance rumble, and an ill-timed sucker punch later, “Night Creeper” has lost her only chance ever at having a gay BFF who really understands her. That’s just the way the pompadour falls, sometimes.

The whole adorable thing is made even more so by the enormous girl crush Barrymore and Best Coast seem to have on each other. But enough analysis. Watch the thing and tell me what you think.