Duplicated efforts

By tbt* staff writer
Published February 4, 2005

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It was clever and witty when Dave Grohl played a half dozen parts in the Foo Fighter s Learn to Fly video. He was hilarious as the swishy flight attendant, the nerdy fan, the obese airline passenger and the gung ho pilot. But now we're seeing multiples in videos and it has to stop. Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway video has her watching the Princess Diaries 2 (where the song is featured on the soundtrack) and gets shushed by herself, the usher. Then she gets coffee from herself, the waitress. Jennifer Lopez casts herself in all the best parts in her new video for Get Right , which was playing on a nearly continuous loop on MTV this week. She's seven people, including stripper, waitress, nerdy-yet-sexy bar patron, hip-hop diva and herself on the club's video screen. The true meaning of the word overexposed .