Levi Johnston, fiance of Bristol Palin and bane of Sarah Palin's existence, is about to share his 15 minutes of fame with an unknown singer. Johnston will take time out from feuding with the Tea Party flag-waver to shoot a music video with R&B singer Brittani Senser. And what's the video about? A loony interfering mum.
The song is called After Love, a lukewarm ballad that has Senser asking if she will "ever learn". It's taken from her debut album, released last July to little fanfare. "It will give [Levi] an opportunity to act a little bit in front of a camera," Johnston's attorney, Rex Butler, explained to the Associated Press. It will also give his future mother-in-law a headache.
In conceiving the video, director Evan Winter admitted that he "riffed off [Johnston's] real-life situation". It shows a couple sharing "tender moments before they are driven apart by the young woman's mother", the Associated Press reports. "Unaware that her mom's interference forced her boyfriend to go, she throws herself into her mother's arms. She tells her mother that she was wrong about Levi."
In 2008, Johnston was an important accessory to Sarah Palin's US vice-presidential campaign, proof of the "power of family over adversity". Although Palin disapproved of her daughter's pre-marital pregnancy, the couple declared their engagement and the handsome high-school drop-out was ushered into the photo ops. After Barack Obama's election win, and the birth of a son, Tripp, in December 2008, the couple broke things off – and Bristol later sought sole custody. Johnston consoled himself by posing for Playgirl magazine.
Earlier this month, Johnston and Bristol Palin announced that they were back together and getting hitched. Sarah Palin – a rumoured contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination – has yet to endorse the betrothal. Or the music video. "I don't think we're going to be concerned about what governor Palin would want," Butler said.
[I know I have said this would be a news blog, not an opinion blog, but really Bristol Palin needs to be slapped and disowned.
"How sharper is a serpent's tooth," I thought when I read this. Bristol Palin sure does seem to ready to capitalize on her fame as a Palin, while at the same time shooting down her mother. She doesn't seem to realize that people would look at her with nothing but contempt if her last name wasn't Palin, since she's a teenage girl with not enough brains to have her boyfriend wear a condom when they have sex. ]
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