New Devendra Banhart Video Stars Natalie Portman; SPIN.com Remembers Other Music-Clip Couples

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Devendra Banhart / Photo by Lauren Dukoff
Devendra Banhart / Photo by Lauren Dukoff

The Artist/Video: Marilyn Manson, "Heart Shaped Glasses" WATCH
The Ingenue: Evan Rachel Wood
Pure Nepotism or Piece of Art?: Too terrified to tell. Wood (or is it Rachel Wood?) played young and naughty in Thirteen, but life imitated art when the porcelain actress ended up a rebound for the Prince of Darkness. Manson parades his youthful mistress in this dark and truly chilling clip as it rains blood on their love scene before they meet their end in a fiery inferno.

The Artist/Video: Whitesnake, "Here I Go Again," "Is This Love," "Still of the Night," "Fool For Your Loving," and "The Deeper The Love" WATCH
The Ingenue: Tawny Kitaen
Pure Nepotism or Piece of Art?: Pure nepotism (not that we're complaining). With the models-in-rock-videos practice running rampant in the 1980s, there isn't a more blatant girlfriend glutton than Whitesnake's David Coverdale. The lion-maned crooner tapped (no pun intended) his sweetheart no less than five times to portray writhing, leggy eye candy -- i.e. herself.

The Artist/Video: Enrique Iglesias, "Escape," and "Hero" WATCH
The Ingenue: Anna Kournikova and Jennifer Love Hewitt
Pure Nepotism or Piece of Art?: Straight up bragging. In a gratuitous showing of the kind of women he can pull, repeat offender Enrique attempts to atone for his musical sins by mauling tennis' hottest loser in a public bathroom during "Escape" and running game with J. Love riding shotgun throughout "Hero." He dies in the latter -- a piece of us dies in both.

The Artist/Video: Aerosmith, "Crazy" WATCH
The Ingenue: Liv Tyler
Pure Nepotism or Piece of Art?: Purely creepy nepotism. Starring as a rebellious schoolgirl alongside Alicia Silverstone, the smoking starlets cut class to tease old men, shoplift, and strip, all on daddy Steven Tyler's watch. Angelic Liv owns amateur night, but when she gets home, she's so grounded.

The Artist/Video: Guns 'N Roses, "November Rain," and "Don't Cry" WATCH
The Ingenue: Stephanie Seymour
Pure Nepotism or Piece of Art?: Push. With legs longer than the song (and the shortest wedding dress of all time), Axl Rose's parmaour-of-the-moment Seymour shines as the red-headed howler's bride to be in "November Rain." But even a perfect 10 is outshone by Slash's cordless church-field solo in the iconic, masterfully overblown nine-minute clip for Axl's opus.

The Artist/Video: Paul Simon, "You Can Call Me Al" WATCH
The Ingenue: Chevy Chase
Pure Nepotism or Piece of Art?: The purest kind of art. There's nothing like a little bromance, and in a wonderfully campy cameo, funnyman Chase tries in earnest to cheer up the pint-sized Simon. When the pair hit the brass while doing a choreographed shuffle, the heavens open and we learn what love looks like.

Think we missed a spot? Rant away in the comments section below.

Posted By sp007

10.05.08 8:02 AM

you are one sinner natalie and whoever your bf is... Ediot , You have insulted our Hindu religion ..God will never forgive you.. You will face very hard times from now on..will really really suffer alot in your life.... You will people will go to hell if you don't remove your album from the market and say sorry to all hindu religion ...

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