The character Cara portrays in the video for "Why Me?" juggles two plot lines: her frustration as a performer going to auditions at Broadway theaters and finally having success while at the same time ending one relationship and finding another. Because the story takes place in Manhattan, Cara is filmed at various landmarks and theaters as she lip-syncs the song. "Billboard" listed the clip in the New Videos Added section of its MTV Adds & Rotation column, which noted that it was added to the cable channel's playlist of music videos as of December 7 in the magazine's December 17 issue, eight weeks after its debut on the Hot 100.