Rilo Kiley Admit to Becoming Amateur Pornographers for "Moneymaker" Video

Be careful which porn flicks you audition for-- you might inadvertently wind up in a Rilo Kiley video. The band's indie pinup of a frontwoman, Jenny Lewis, has revealed the casting process for the band's provocative clip for "Moneymaker," the first single from Under the Blacklight, out August 21. "We told people they were coming in and auditioning for a porno," the singer recalls. "We sat them down and asked them about their experiences. ... We met some really interesting, nice people."

The whole process allowed Lewis to indulge one of her new interests: exploring her own increasingly loose attitudes about sex and music. "As a woman, the older I get the more comfortable I feel writing about sex and singing about it," she explains. "Now I feel comfortable enough where I can start writing about sex -- not necessarily about my own experiences, but the sexual lives of others. And the somewhat deviant sexual lives of others."

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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