Tom Hanks stars in Carly Rae Jepsen’s new video for “I Really Like You,” and all we can figure is that Carly Rae Jepsen is a much bigger star than we thought. Nothing wrong with that, though. “Call Me Maybe” was one of the catchiest pop songs of recent vintage, and “I Really Like You” is just as fun and earnest–even without movie star Tom Hanks lip-syncing the vast majority of the song in the new video.
Given that Hanks wrote and directed That Thing You Do, we always kind of expected to see him guesting in a music video for some pure power-pop act. That would make sense. Carly Rae is a lot less expected, but Hanks sure seems to be having a great time while playing himself being everyone’s favorite movie star while on his way to shoot a dance sequence of Carly Rae Jepsen. Don’t make fun of that. It’s obviously based on real life.
We’re not sure how rap icon Chet Haze feels about all this, but we’re sure happy to see Carly Rae getting some famous fans jumping in to keep her career going. Take a look and have a sunshine-pop Saturday…
