The National release bizarre new video

The last few videos by the National have seemed to try and portray a more playful side to the band, at odds with their fairly morose public image (although in my opinion it is the wit and light-heartedness in the lyrics that makes them the band they are). The last video, for 'Terrible Love', was essentially just various shots of them having fun. Here, they have gone for a more storytelling approach, enlisting John Slattery (better known as the 'Stirling' of Stirling Cooper Draper Pryce) and Kristen Schaal (Mel from Flight Of The Conchords) to tell the story of forbidden love between the President of the USA and one of her bodyguards. Unfortunately for Slattery, Schaal (as the President) visits some Eastern European country and falls for the head of state there after watching him fight a man dressed as a bear. I'm guessing this is a parody of Putin's barechested hunting heroics, but I'd like to think the odds on Obama doing the same thing must be pretty long.

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