Director David Fincher x Yeah Yeah Yeahs x actress Rooney Mara would be an epic music video. Instead it's an equally impressive commercial for Calvin Klein fragrance Downtown.
That said, the line between what's a commercial and a music video will only get blurrier as product placement and commercial repurposing becomes as ubiquitous as music in advertisements. Blurred Lines, indeed.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs and director Patrick Daughters have transcendently stopped time before — and the intro here proves they can easily repeat the same feat — but they have a different tool in mind to capture that spirit of release: The Empire State Building.
Director Patrick Daughters + Yeah Yeah Yeahs + performance at the top of the Empire State Building sounds like a winning combo..
This was actually the first ever music video shot atop the NYC landmark, as reported by the NY Times, which also has quotes from all involved (including building management).
Shame on any reviewer who takes the easy way out and says this Yeah Yeah Yeahs video sucks. Too easy.
Director B. Shimbe Shim — who also created the buggy album art for Mosquito — goes for an internet art experience: Setting up a sort of PIP web-chat where a young boy watches a skeeter engorge itself on his hand. Things reach unexpected psychedelic heights — and there's the smashing conclusion — but it's basically just a bug sucking blood for the length of the song.
Befuddled by the chronologically tricky Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Sacrilege" video, which starts at the end and ends at the beginning? Well, independent editor/composer David Adametz irreversed it, so your linear brain can more easily understand this post-modern immorality tale.
New videos from the four Frenchman of Megaforce are something that all of us look forward to. Here, they exceed expectations for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs with a blistering tale of betrayal that is almost biblical in scope.
