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The Hardest Button to Button
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 31, 2003
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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The new video for The White Stripes, The Hardest Button to Button is directed by Michel Gondry, who Lego-ized them in Fell in Love with a Girl, complete with cameo by Beck. The video was filmed in New York at Harlem and Riverside Park (near Grant's Tomb) and they also used a PATH train. The spot shows Jack, Meg, and endless amps and drums all over the locations. And while Jack White looks spookily pasty, it does not seem to be Halloween make-up - it is the real thing.
See The Hardest Button to Button. More on Michel Gondry.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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