''Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury'' is a 2010 Internet
music video
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device ...
that was nominated for a 2011
Hugo Award for
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
The video features singer and comedian
Rachel Bloom
Rachel Leah Bloom (born April 3, 1987) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. She is best known for co-creating and starring as Rebecca Bunch in The CW musical comedy-drama series ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' (2015– ...
performing a sexually explicit song about her lust and admiration for writer
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery fictio ...
.
The music and lyrics were written by Bloom and the music video was directed by Paul Briganti. The song was produced by Jack Dolgen and
Jon Siebels
Jonathan Lee "Jon" Siebels (born August 27, 1979) is an American musician, best known as the guitarist of the band Eve 6. He became a part of the band after meeting bassist and lead vocalist Max Collins during Siebels' freshman year in Crescenta ...
, with additional arrangements by Dolgen. The video's cinematographer was Paul Rondeau and the choreographer was Katie Lee Hill.
Bradbury's response
On Bradbury's 90th birthday,
Mark Edward
Mark Edward (born Mark Edward Wilson, May 19, 1951) is an American mentalist and author. He has written books on mentalism, séance theory and production, including '' Psychic Blues'' published in 2009, where he discusses working for the Ps ...
visited Bradbury's home and showed him the video. He reported that Bradbury "was charmed by the whole thing", and that he watched it with a "wise old knowing gleam in his eyes" and "a few soft chuckles."
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2010s music videos
Cultural depictions of writers
Cultural depictions of American men
2010s English-language films