Watch John McEnroe get waterboarded (for real?) in a new music video
Celebrities guest-starring in music videos are a dime a dozen; we get press releases every week to the tune of “Aubrey Plaza stars in Father John Misty video!” and we generally ignore them. (Okay, we wrote about that one.) But the below video, by unknown electronic-rock outfit Future User, features tennis superstar John McEnroe being waterboarded, supposedly for real. It’s not exactly a subtle piece of art: In the video for “Clockwork,” a compendium of ghastly real-life videos—most depicting police brutality and war—plays over a pretty crappy electro-metal ballad. Then, like an angry ghost from the ’80s, McEnroe appears, first in a tennis match against a hooded creep (is that Future User?), and later as the victim of a kidnapping. He’s then brutally waterboarded—his face covered with a towel while water is poured into his mouth and nose to simulate drowning. It is clear that this is uncomfortable for him, though the person doing the torturing seems to relish it.
