At that time, Jolie was a 20-year-old nobody (don’t believe me? Check her IMDb listing; the only things she had done up to that time were a TV appearance, a couple of shorts, and a direct-to-video sequel of “Cyborg”) who had not yet hit it big.  It would be another five years before she appeared in “Pushing Tin”, and it wasn’t until 2001 — seven years after the Meat Loaf video — that she landing her breakout role as “Lara Croft”.  Same thing with Michael Bay.  He had done nothing of significance other than videos, including a Playboy video centerfold shoot, before directing “Rock and Roll Dreams”.

So get your facts straight; neither of these people were inexplicably slumming when they did this video.  Sure, Jolie and Bay are above something like this now, but that wasn’t always the case.  Everybody has to start from somewhere.