Mumford & Sons - 'Hopeless Wanderer' Video
Mumford And Sons Hopeless Wanderer Spoof Video
Mumford & Sons - 'Hopeless Wanderer' Video
Mumford & Sons 'Hopeless Wanderer' Video With Jason Bateman Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, and Friends + Mumford & Sons = Hilarity. August 5, 2013 by Maggie Panos. Hopeless Wanderer. Mumford and Sons. August 6, 2013 World, if you haven't yet, meet the Hopeless Wanderers aka Jason, Jason, Ed and Will (extra high fives to them for the dance routine). Pages Public Figure Musician/Band Mumford and Sons Videos Hopeless Wanderer. Well, the band's latest video somehow manages to be even better. Though the actual Mumford & Sons members don't even appear in it once, their comedic doppelgangers certainly do. 'We are delighted to present you the new video for the song Hopeless Wanderer, featuring Mumf. Oh wait,' the band tweets, along with a link to the above video.
British banjo-folk pastiche-kings Mumford & Sons are more famous than a motherfucker, so they don’t have to care whether you like them or not. (I do like them, though.) And yet, they’ve pulled at least a couple of moves that seem directed toward making you, Stereogum reader, like them at least a little bit, including the repeated casting of people you already like in their music videos. First, there was Idris Elba in “Lover Of The Light.” And now comes the “Hopeless Wanderer” video, which features an all-star cast of famous comedy bros — Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Will Forte, noted bluegrass aficionado Ed Helms — all doing their best Mumford impressions and making what might be the most Mumford video of all-time. The video stays pretty straight-faced most of the way, which only serves to further skewer the band’s deathlessly sincere old-timey pose. And honestly, isn’t it a little bit brave for a band to hire famous people to make their whole thing look stupid in their own music video? I think it is. Either way, whether you enjoy liking or detesting this band, it’s a fun video. Forte’s fake scraggle-beard is obviously amazing, but don’t sleep on Sudeikis’s fake earrings. Sam Jones directs; watch it below.
Mumford’s new album Babel is out now on Island/Glassnote.