Don’t worry, we’re not getting in the habit of posting Cake videos, but this one is pretty flippin’ spectacular. Shot here in P-town by Alicia J. Rose, it stars Jason Rouse and Michael Fetters (whom you may both know from Sweat, and many other humorous endeavors) and a thousands-strong* cast of Portland locals. The video for “Mustache Man (Wasted),” which just premiered on MTV2**, “follows a Napoleon Dynamite Uncle Rico-type character around town as he effortlessly beds hotties left and right,” according to MTV2’s description—but I see it more as a tale of a lonely un-mustachioed barista, ending in his discovery of self and his assertion of character in a world gone mad.

Whatever. It’s a great video, with lots of terrible costumes, girls in bikinis, men in drag, and a magical van—and it climaxes in a dance-off. What more could you ask for? It helps that “Mustache Man” is the best song I have heard from Cake since 1997***, being a wholly palatable example of their lightly funkified, bro-tastic dude rock. (Ugh. I think I just grew a soul patch typing that sentence.)

*math may be slightly inaccurate
**insert preemptive joke about MTV not showing videos anymore
***note: it is the only Cake song I have heard since 1997

Ned Lannamann is a writer and editor in Portland, Oregon. He writes about film, music, TV, books, travel, tech, food, drink, outdoors, and other things.

8 replies on “Watch the New, Portland-Shot Video from Cake. No, Really!”

  4. It turns out there are people constantly coming to Portland from other places and ruining it, but they’re not transplants, they’re film crews.

  6. I know they’re not a vegan/feminist cello, drum and saw ensemble paying tribute to Civil War ballads but why wouldn’t you get into the habit of posting Cake videos?

  7. Dudes, Cake sucks it, but this actually isn’t a bad song from them. It’s like they stopped trying so gaddam hard and just played some music they enjoy, and it beats basically everything else they’ve ever done.

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