''Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury'' is a 2010 satirical
Internet
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music video
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that was nominated for a 2011
Hugo Award
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for
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
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.
The video features actress and comedian
Rachel Bloom
Rachel Leah Bloom (born April 3, 1987) is an American actress, comedian, singer, writer, 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– ...
playing the role of a nerdy female high school student, and pokes fun at people who make online video love letters to their favorite celebrity. The song lyrics describe Bloom's character's lack of romantic interest in boys her own age, because she would rather stay home and read
science fiction
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and fantasize, in rather sexually explicit language, about being a literary
groupie
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for legendary and groundbreaking, but 89-year-old
Golden Age of Science Fiction
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novelist and
screenwriter
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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 genres, including fantasy, science fiction, Horror fiction, horr ...
.
The music and lyrics were written by Bloom and the music video was directed and filmed by Paul Briganti, and choreographed by Briganti and Katie Lee Hill. 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.
In 2005, Siebels co-founded the business Be in A Band, which offered courses to teach people how to be in a band.
In 2006, ...
, with additional arrangements by Dolgen.
Bradbury's response
On Bradbury's 90th birthday,
Mark Edward
Mark Edward (born Mark Edward Wilson, May 19, 1951 – August 4, 2024) was an American mentalist and author. He wrote books on mentalism and séance theory and production, including '' Psychic Blues'' (2009), where he discussed working for the ...
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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