Interpol, "Lights"

I go pretty far with the video for Interpol’s new song, “Lights,” which will be on the Brooklyn band’s self-titled fourth album, due in September. In it, sexy women wearing body paint and fetish gear enact something called a “pheromone harvesting ritual” which I’d never heard of before and which involves bathing and shaving and painful-looking medical instruments like Jeremy Irons and Jeremy Irons used in the David Cronenberg movie Dead Ringers. A viscous milky substance (pheromone juice?) is sucked through a straw and cried and drooled and vomited all over a cool black altar or piece of modernist furniture and then drips down down a drain. (Presumably into a pheromone receptacle.) Fine. Slightly disgusting. But I’m with it. But come on, does director Charlie White honestly expect me to believe that all this is taking place inside a three-horned rhinoceros beetle?! Yeah right! Those bugs are big, for sure, but as you can see, not that big.

(photo by Artour A from Flickr.)