Posted by Katherine St Asaph on 03/26/2012 at 5:31 PM Videos

The Popdust Files: honestly, hot chelle rae, music videos

Planning on breaking up with someone? Hot Chelle Rae knows about this, and here they are, with the battle hymn of the publicly dumped. The video for “Honestly” is a very detailed cautionary tale, basically; it’s all about things you might not want to do if you ever want to be friends with your ex again. It’s equal-opportunity, too!

THE GIRL*: Keying cars; screwing up the act of keying cards by being demure about it and, more importantly, by keying other people‘s cars; wreaking havoc with laundry and sheet music; crawling and pouting a lot; taking post-breakup advice from Jojo’s “Marvin’s Room“; going on fake dating sites immediately after the breakup. (At least wait a day, jeez.)

THE GUYS: Excessive, deceptive gaming that she’s not in on; sending photos of themselves making out with other girls; tagging her in those photos just to spite her; using really shady-looking fake photo sites (yeah, yeah, copyright but still); letting the camera linger on her insecurity; knocking over the beer pong table.

Well done, everybody. There is not a bridge that hasn’t been burned. Let’s just hope everyone’s future relationships (including the girl with her rebound) are less grisly, or at least result in less wasted beer.

*Played by Ashley Benson, if that’s a thing you’re interested in.