arctic monkeys
06/08/2007
Arctic Monkeys, "Fluorescent Adolescent"
While I don't know if this video is, as guitarist Jamie Cook claimed in an MTV interview, "one of the best videos in, like, the last ten years," it is a lot of fun. Plus, unlike a hell of a lot of videos hitting the streets lately, it actually seems to have something to do with the song.
Sure, on the surface, it may just look like the madcap mayhem of a bunch of vigilante clowns. But much like the way the song's jaunty beat and clever, rapid-fire lyrics slowly reveal the lament of a faded party girl, at its heart this video is lamenting lost innocence. It just happens to achieve that by featuring Snatch's Stephen Graham as an angry clown haunted by his past as he confronts a childhood friend gone bad.
Plus, clowns beating up bank robbers! Who doesn't enjoy that?
