To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Speaking Heads’ first dwell efficiency, the legendary rock band have lastly launched a music video for “Psycho Killer,” starring none aside from Saoirse Ronan.
Whereas the observe initially debuted in 1977, Speaking Heads teamed up with C’mon C’mon director Mike Mills to have a good time their dwell debut at CBGB on June 5, 1975. Within the video, Ronan portrays a lady “unraveling whereas caught in her every day routine.”
The music video incorporates only a few contrasting pictures because the Oscar nominee alternates between the bed room, kitchen, workplace and automobile, grabbling together with her an array of feelings.
“This video makes the tune higher,” Speaking Heads mentioned in a press release. “We LOVE what this video is NOT — it’s not literal, creepy, bloody, bodily violent or apparent.”
“Psycho Killer” was launched as a part of the Grammy nominated band’s first album, Speaking Heads: 77, and is one in all their most beloved hits, licensed double-platinum earlier this yr. The observe is included within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame’s checklist of 500 Songs That Formed Rock and Roll.
“This album actually modified what was doable in life for me, 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 occasion, it’s top-of-the-line issues I ever obtained to be part of — nonetheless can’t consider it really occurred,” Mills mentioned in a press release.
The Little Girls star, too, shared her admiration for Speaking Heads in a press release, saying that “I’ve grown up listening to their music, so this actually is a childhood/teenage/lifelong dream come true.”
“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 one in all their most iconic songs — ‘Psycho Killer,’” Ronan mentioned. “Mike, myself and the remainder of the artistic group had a lot enjoyable making this, and I can’t look forward to Speaking Heads followers to see it!”
