Speaking Heads have launched the first-ever music video for his or her basic tune “Psycho Killer,” in celebration of the band’s debut efficiency precisely 50 years in the past immediately. Acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills directed the visible, which stars Oscar-winning actress Saoirse Ronan as an everywoman who begins to unravel whereas caught in a tedious, 9-to-5 life-style. Watch it beneath.
The music video’s launch exactly marks the fiftieth anniversary of the band’s reside debut on June fifth, 1975, once they opened for the Ramones at CBGB in New York Metropolis. Within the video, Ronan portrays a lady trapped in a cyclical routine, her temper shifting dramatically from aloof to tranquil to enraged. She has an outburst at her office, dances in her kitchen, and lies awake in existential concern, all whereas these round her appear oblivious to her actions.
In a press launch, Speaking Heads praised the video’s unconventional course. “This video makes the tune higher — We LOVE what this video is NOT — it’s not literal, creepy, bloody, bodily violent or apparent,” they mentioned.
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Mills (director of twentieth Century Ladies and C’mon C’mon) shared his admiration for the band in a press release of his personal, referencing their debut album and the expertise of working with Ronan. “This album actually modified what was doable in life for me,” Mills mentioned. “So 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 social gathering, it’s top-of-the-line issues I ever received to be part of.”
Ronan additionally expressed awe at her involvement within the mission. “To easily be talked about in the identical breath as Speaking Heads is palms down one of many coolest issues that has ever occurred to me, not to mention making a video with the singular Mike Mills,” she mentioned. “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 workforce had a lot enjoyable making this, and I can’t anticipate Speaking Heads followers to see it!”
Speaking Heads fashioned in 1975. “Psycho Killer” was launched two years in a while their debut album, Speaking Heads: 77. They went on to launch a number of critically acclaimed data, together with 1983’s Talking in Tongues, earlier than breaking apart in 1991.
The group reunited for a press tour in 2023 to have fun the fortieth anniversary of their seminal live performance movie, Cease Making Sense, however have since turned down alternatives to carry out reside, reportedly together with an $80 million provide from Stay Nation.
A compilation report titled Everybody’s Getting Concerned: A Tribute to Speaking Heads’ Cease Making Sense was launched in 2024 and included covers carried out by artists resembling Paramore, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, and the Nationwide.