The weirdest, the better? Is it okay to push the bizarre to the extreme for the sake of it? I mean when there is no other intention than to look deviant and strange…
The new Interpol video directed by Charlie White, begins with the sentence:
‘Deep within the inner chambers of the three-horned Rhinoceros Beetle (Chalcosoma Caucasus) a closely guarded pheromone harvesting ritual is about to begin’
A three-horned Rhinoceros Beetle? The males are huge (4.75 inches), and have these enormous curved horns and a razor sharp joint which the insect can suddenly close and give a painful pinch… I wonder why they come up with that insect for this song. Just because it’s a freaky beast, which could repulse you? Or because it is an old religious symbol and they wanted to invent some kind of ritual?
I don’t know if the video will turn you on or off but I guarantee that you are going to watch it in its entirety for some sick reasons.
With three women, two who seem in charge and one who seems to be the patient, you assist at some kind of clinical operation in a black and white futurist and immaculate laboratory that could remind you a scene from ‘Eyes wide shut’.
According to Charlie White, it is supposed to represent a fictional ritual of pheromone production by a donor (Pheromone Doe) who will excrete the intoxicative white fluid from her eyes, mouth, and fingers, after being disrobed, washed, and dressed by two pheromone addicted courtesan women, in preparation for arousal. Wow, that’s a weird one!
Freak beetle, freak science, freak sex, think whatever you want about all this white skin, black tight clothes, chirurgical tools, and milky sperm-like fluid excretion, it will grab your attention because of its Kubrickian aesthetic and its sophisticated sexual tension.
It’s mysterious and dark just like the song, and artful and bold like a disturbing erotic novel.
But insect pheromones are molecules released into the air, so I don’t know where all this milky stuff comes from anyway.
You can watch and download the video here:
http://www.interpolnyc.com/lights.html