Watch A New Video for R.E.M.’s ‘Blue,’ Directed by James Franco and Starring Lindsay Lohan

It’s hard to believe that R.E.M. broke up over a year ago — has it really been that long? Their fifteenth and final album, Collapse Into Now, dropped in March of last year, but it’s only now that this video, created by James Franco for the Collapse Into Now Film Project, has risen to the surface. The video is grainy and unsettling, if still kind of beautiful, like a grown-up version of Less Than Zero, with layered footage, bright lights, and shots of a sexed-up Lindsay Lohan modeling. All this behind a fuzzy track with echoing vocals by Michael Stipe and Patti Smith. Ah, the City of Angels. Click through to watch, and let us know what you think in the comments.

[via Rolling Stone]

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Dunno. This video comes off to me as pretentious, derivative and quite frankly, boring.

The best project Lohan has ever been involved in, that's for sure. She actually looks beautiful, and Franco has captured the R.E.M. "look" that has pretty much defined their history in videos. Bravo, and what a pleasant surprise.