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

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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