Synopsis
My Darkest Days perform "Porn Star Dancing" inside the Vanity nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The band plays amid a crowded, neon-lit club filled with dancers, models, and partygoers, while Chad Kroeger joins the performance and Zakk Wylde contributes a featured guitar solo. The extended version adds Ludacris, whose rap section broadens the video into a rock-and-rap showcase. The deliberately excessive nightclub setting matches the song's provocative title and party-centered attitude.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was shot in Las Vegas in June 2010 during the period when My Darkest Days were touring with Sick Puppies, Janus, and It's Alive.
- Much of the footage was filmed at the Vanity nightclub inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
- Chad Kroeger appears both as a featured vocalist and as the musician who had signed My Darkest Days to 604 Records.
- Zakk Wylde appears with his guitar, reflecting his contribution to the recorded track's prominent solo.
- Ludacris appears in the extended uncensored version. He was initially associated with the Canadian video release, but that version later became the more widely circulated mainstream video.
- The song was My Darkest Days' debut single and became the band's signature hit, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart for two weeks.
- An official behind-the-scenes featurette documents the Las Vegas shoot and shows the band, Kroeger, Wylde, and Ludacris participating in the production.