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[drunkoffthestars]

I really like Arms Race, both the song and the video. But the bit in the video with the photoshoot and the skeezy photographer and Pete manage to just HAMMER my not-actually-that-sensitive embarrassement/humiliation squick SO HARD. It just makes my stomach go all twisty. It's sad, because other than those 10 seconds or so, I really really LOVE that video.

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[queenofhell.livejournal.com]

Really? Cause for me, those ten seconds make me go, "WTF, Pete Wentz, you are twenty-seven years old. How do you still manage to look like kiddie porn?" And my humiliation squick is usually major, like to the point where I have to walk out of the room if something embarassing happens to someone on TV. But like, its Pete Wentz, and he's twenty-seven, and he looks like he's Fiona Apple in that "Criminal" video, only he's twenty-seven years old so I know that he is in fact choosing to look like kiddie porn. And so, I am okay with it.

[drunkoffthestars]

"WTF, Pete Wentz, you are twenty-seven years old. How do you still manage to look like kiddie porn?"

Heh, you are Not Wrong. And, no lie, it totally adds to the oogy-ness, for me. The photographer totally creeps me out. I think it is mostly me over-identifying and thinking about how completely humiliated I would feel in his situation, and then to go and reference it in your music video? I mean, I realize he pretty much had no choice but to get over it, but it just Does Not Compute in my brain. So, it just makes me a bit... yes. So, while the rational part of my brain can say yes, whaevs, he is a grown man and was probably responsible for that entire sequence in the video, the other part of me is just meep about the entire being-naked-on-the-internet/breach of privacy/public humiliation situation that it is alluding to. On the other hand, if I could convince myself that the video was implying that he leaked the naked pictures on purpose, it would probably make me laugh instead.