--- title: Lena Dunham Directs Jack Antonoff for Bleachers Music Video description: Lena Dunham directed the new music video for Bleachers, which stars her boyfriend Jack Antonoff, the lead singer and songwriter for the band. canonical: https://time.com/4763509/alia-shawkat-bleachers-music-video/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-02T21:11:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:16.871Z og:title: Jack Antonoff Is Totally Bedazzled in This New Music Video og:description: Alia Shawkat stars in this music video that doubles as a short film og:url: https://time.com/4763509/alia-shawkat-bleachers-music-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jack Antonoff Is Totally Bedazzled in This New Music Video twitter:description: Alia Shawkat stars in this music video that doubles as a short film twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jack Antonoff Wears a Bedazzled Blazer to His Doomed Wedding in This New Bleachers Music Video > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 2, 2017 9:11 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 2, 2017 9:11 PM UTC While the [final season of _Girls_ has wrapped](http://time.com/4665930/girls-final-season-lena-dunham/), that doesn’t mean that [Lena Dunham](http://time.com/4620850/girls-lena-durham-jemima-kirke-jessa-quit/) is letting any grass grow under her feet. She assumed a director’s role once again to helm the latest music video for Bleachers, starring Dunham’s boyfriend [Jack Antonoff](http://time.com/2970439/jack-antonoff-bleachers-pop-music/), who’s the lead singer and songwriter for the band. The music video is for Bleachers’ song “Don’t Take the Money” and feels more like a short film thanks to spoken interludes and a gripping visual narrative that involves Antonoff getting married in a bedazzled blazer — that is, before his fiancee’s ex crashes the wedding ceremony with disastrous results. Besides the engrossing storyline, Dunham also enlisted [_Search Party_‘s Alia Shawkat](http://time.com/4567119/alia-shawkat-search-party-interview/) (resplendent in gold lamé) as a supporting character and borrowed heavily from bright, saturated, ’80s-style aesthetics to keep the concept fun, despite the somewhat unexpected plot twist. 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