Show The Pretenders Your Boots

The Pretenders want their fans to sing along with their "Boots Of Chinese Plastic" single for a good cause.

Singer/guitarist Chrissie Hynde, guitarists James Walbourne and Eric Heywood, bassist Nick Wilkinson and drummer Martin Chambers have launched a video contest in conjunction with PETA and YouTube. They want fans to film themselves lip-synching to "Boots Of Chinese Plastic" and show their own plastic boots sometime in the video.

"This is a fun away to raise awareness for a very serious cause," Hynde says. "We are looking forward to seeing our fans and animal loving friends perform 'Boots Of Chinese Plastic' via YouTube."

This isn't a contest to make the official video for "Boots Of Chinese Plastic," which has already been made and can be seen below.

To enter, all you need to do is upload a video to YouTube of yourself lip-synching to the tune and tag it "bootsaudition." The clips will be judged by The Pretenders, and the winner will receive a trip for two to Los Angeles to lip-synch in the official fan video, which will premiere on The Pretenders, PETA, YouTube and Apple Quicktime websites. More information about the contest is available on The Pretenders' official website.

Here's the official video for "Boots Of Chinese Plastic":