Speaking Heads are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary by releasing the first-ever video for “Psycho Killer.” The band enlisted the nice Mike Mills to direct, with Saoirse Ronan starring as an workplace employee who dances, squirms, shudders, and screams by her every day routine. “This video makes the tune higher,” the band mentioned in a press launch. “We LOVE what this video is NOT—it’s not literal, creepy, bloody, bodily violent or apparent.” Watch it beneath, and keep tuned for Speaking Heads’ ongoing celebrations of the 50 years since their formation.
Mills, who beforehand directed the Nationwide’s I Am Simple to Discover brief movie, mentioned Speaking Heads’ debut album, Speaking Heads: 77, “actually modified what was attainable in life for me.” He went on, “To get to play with the subversive, uncategorizable fantastic thing about Speaking Heads, and to play with Saoirse who introduced a lot shock, energy, vulnerability and mischief to the celebration, it’s among the finest issues I ever received to be part of—nonetheless can’t consider it really occurred.”
Ronan added, “To easily be talked about in the identical breath as Speaking Heads is fingers down one of many coolest issues that has ever occurred to me, not to mention making a video with the singular Mike Mills to accompany considered one of their most iconic songs—‘Psycho Killer.’ I’ve grown up listening to their music, so this actually is a childhood/teenage/lifelong dream come true. Mike, myself and the remainder of the artistic crew had a lot enjoyable making this, and I can’t await Speaking Heads followers to see it!”
Revisit Andy Cush’s 2021 interview “Speaking Heads’ Unique Lineup on Cease Making Sense, Their Early Days, and the Future.”
