"The Ballad of Chasey Lain" is a song by American
alternative rock band
Bloodhound Gang
The Bloodhound Gang was an American rap rock band from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1988 by rappers Jimmy Pop and Daddy Long Legs (now in Wolfpac) as a hip-hop group, before branching out into other genres as their career pro ...
. It was released in February 2000 as the third single from their third studio album, ''
Hooray for Boobies'' (2000). The song reached number one in Iceland and became a top-20 hit in Austria, Finland, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Content
According to a band interview to the
BBC, the song was written after Jimmy Pop had seen
pornographic film actress
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie. Such videos tend to be made in a number of dis ...
Chasey Lain in a clothing ad. When questioned if the infatuation was real, he commented "No. No. What happened was, I saw her in a clothing ad, and I was like, 'she's really cute'. So I'm not sure if we started 'researching' Chasey Lain but she came out and performed on our record with us, and her arms were like, hairier than mine. And she was dumber than that table".
The Bloodhound Gang interview
BBC, November 15, 2005
Music video
The music video features the band performing the song on stage, and the director and the film crew are all naked women. Throughout the course of the video, the band is apparently becoming distracted by the naked women, and Jared Hasselhoff
Jared Hennegan (born August 5, 1971), better known by the stage name "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff, is an American musician and television personality best known for being the former bassist of the rock band Bloodhound Gang.
Early life
Hasselhoff ...
even walks and falls off the stage while distracted. At the end of the video, Jimmy Pop complains about being distracted, and an obese man eating food in a sloppy and disgusting manner is revealed, possibly implying the band was distracted by him, rather than the naked women.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
External links
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Bloodhound Gang songs
1999 songs
2000 singles
Cultural depictions of American women
Cultural depictions of pornographic film actors
Geffen Records singles
Number-one singles in Iceland
Songs about actors
Songs written by Jimmy Pop
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