MTV Called A Phone Sex Line

The conceit of La Roux's new video, "Kiss and Not Tell," is that it's done in the style of those late 80s and early 90s sex phone line commercials. When MTV (link below) saw the video, presumably not on their own network, they decided to call the number flashed on the screen to see if it was a real working phone number. I'm assuming that all of this was purely for research purposes.

...dialing 011-44-155-728-0014 will actually lead you to a pre-recorded menu message, presumably left by the “Let Me Down Gently” singer herself.

“You’re through to the ‘Kiss And Not Tell’ hotline,” the voice calmly states before presenting my options. “Press 1 to get down. Press 2 to leave a cheeky message. Be careful what you say — these recordings can and will be shared.”

Hitting 1 took me to a call waiting-like recording of the Trouble In Paradise track, and entering 2 let me “leave a cheeky message” as promised — but I froze and hung up in a moment of cheeky-message stage fright. I mean, she said the recording could and would be shared! Plus, I don’t think my coworkers and I are at that “Hear each other record fake phone-sex hotline messages” level yet.

Well done, as always, MTV. You continue to be at the cutting edge of half-assing everything. 

Via MTV