TO: All Interscope Creative Directors
FROM: Marcus Bellweather, Senior VP of Financial Containment
RE: The Carly Rae Jepsen Versailles music video shoot
We must address the mounting costs for the upcoming video. Miss Jepsen wants to party in 'Versailles' for her new single. However, her treatment does not call for a green screen. She rejects digital replicas of the Hall of Mirrors. She demands the actual French palace. Our current budget cannot sustain her vision of seventeenth-century high society. We must find cheaper alternatives immediately.
Guillotines and Golden toilets
Miss Jepsen demands authentic period details for the Interscope Records shoot. The current line items include forty-two gilded carriages. She also requested three hundred trained court spaniels. We cannot afford this level of historical accuracy for a pop video. We tried to suggest a rented banquet hall in Ohio. Miss Jepsen threw a slice of cake at our representative. She then shouted 'Let them eat synth-pop' and locked herself in her trailer.
The Audience Sedation Strategy
We consulted outside experts to manage the escalating scale. "We suggested tranquilizing the extras to keep them from demanding union rates," said Agnes Periwinkle, Head of Audience Sedation at Live Nation. "If the peasants look asleep, it actually fits the dreamy aesthetic of her new album, Day and Night." We are currently reviewing this option. It would save us thousands in catering costs.
At press time, the label approved the purchase of a small European principality because it was cheaper than paying Miss Jepsen's daily wig budget.
