2020 has given us many amazing music videos with celebrity cameos, and Katy Perry decided to join in this trend and end the year with a bang. After a decade of being compared to the actress Zooey Deschanel, she cast her in the video for her latest single “Not the End of the World”.
This hilarious visual is a culmination of a decade-long joke about the uncanny resemblance between the two stars. It shows a group of aliens trying to abduct Katy Perry before destroying Earth, but their plans go south after they end up mistaking her for Zooey Deschanel.
Shortly after the music video was released, the two stars discussed their unusual relationship on Instagram Live. Perry even admitted she used to pretend to be Deschanel to get into clubs at the very start of her career when she had no money and no clout.
“Not the End of the World” allowed them to finally poke fun at the fact that we spent years mistaking them for each other, and people definitely took notice. The music video immediately went viral and reached the top spot on the US iTunes music video chart only a few hours after its release.
