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Jacuzzi Boys: Glazin

2012
Lucas Leyva & Jillian Mayer

We released this one as the "Jacuzzi G@ls," calling it a fan video. It promptly got banned from everywhere (not before getting a half million views in 36 hours on YouTube). Even the label tried to disown it, sent us cease and desist letters, etc. For legal reasons, the official website had to be hosted on the same Swedish server that is home to NAMBLA, Wikileaks, et al. We stay in character for interviews and twitter.

Mayer\Leyva created this video for The Jacuzzi Boys.

PRESS

"The more you listen to Mayer\Leyva the more you realize that themes of reappropriation and the ideas behind images are pretty central to their work (of which music videos are just a portion). This leads to the one fact that was mentioned in the SXSW talk that really blows me away - at one point a possible release venue for this that was floated around was a website like Hustler or Playboy. Maybe one day the internet will be the home of a new vaginas-dressed-as-stuff fetish, but I don't think the people of Hustler or Playboy were ready for this."IMVDb