Catch a glimpse of behind the scenes lifestyles of underground musicians on $5 Cover this weekend on MTV. The first three episodes air tonight (Friday, May 1) on MTV at Midnight EST. Amy LaVere is the first musician featured in the series. Her video “Killing Him”, highlights a song about a woman who kills her unfaithful lover in a fit of rage.
Sample lyrics
He said he’d give her the sun and the moon
Now all she has is this 8×8 room
Killin’ him didn’t make the love go away
$5 Cover is a fictional series about actual musicians in midtown Memphis. All the musicians play themselves in a semi-fictionalized, dramatic narrative created by Craig Brewer, the Director of ‘Hustle and Flow’. The episodes are 6-8 minutes long, each featuring a song from one of the musicians.
For the entire month of May, MTV will simultaneously release three episodes a week on TV and on www.mtv.com/fivedollarcover.
The documentaries, $5 Cover AMPLIFIED, unlike the fictional series, offer a slower-paced, experimental, and intimate view into the actual creative lives of the featured musicians. The first three of twelve pieces are already available for viewing. You can see Amy LaVere’s behind the scenes video now. It includes her shooting a gun, telling a stories about her first gun experience and lamenting about ‘love gone wrong’ and the tendency of women to ’sell out’ to please their man.
Buy Killing Him by Amy LaVere on iTunes.
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