holden nowell played the guy in call me maybe.
holden nowell played the guy in call me maybe.
who plays the guy in call me maybe?
holden nowell
in 2018, holden nowell talked publicly about the gay scene in the music video. "the fact that they had to make me gay at the end of the video … it was all very … i didn't like being known as the gay guy in the 'call me maybe' video. it was just something i wasn't used to," nowell told iheartradio canada. the original storyline called for the neighbor to kiss the male band member, but nowell suggested the alternative storyline, where he just gave the guitarist his phone number: "i was like, 'i'm going to be completely honest with you. i'm not going to kiss a guy, especially for $500.' i said, 'i really don't think i'm comfortable kissing a guy for a music video [...] i said, 'you know what? what if instead of me kissing a guy at the end of the video, what if i just give a guy my number or something like that?'".
call me maybe
on the fourth season of "glee" premiere episode "the new rachel", they covered call me maybe as a way to decide who the "new rachel" will be. during the fourth season of "the x factor" (australia), the finalists recorded and performed a cover of "call me maybe" as a charity single in aid of sony foundation's you can program. girls aloud covered call me maybe live during their . los angeles comedy punk band the radioactive chicken heads recorded a punk rock version of the song in november 2012, also releasing a music video concurrently with their punk rock cover of taylor swifts "we are never ever getting back together". on april 20, 2013, eeleye created a remix mashup version of this song with 2am club's "too fucked up to call" (credited to 2am club vs. carly rae jepsen), titled "too fucked up to call me maybe". during the first episode of the 8th season of "america's got talent", aired on june 4, 2013, the 3 penny chorus and orchestra directed by arianne abela did a cover of "call me maybe", arranged by colin britt and arianne abela. "weird al" yankovic briefly covered the song as part of his polka medley "now that's what i call polka!" for his 2014 album "mandatory fun". for the thirtieth anniversary of the mathworks in 2014, a group of employees created a flashmob-style parody version called "call me nerdy".
call me maybe