Today is the day! TV
On the Radio just released the video for "Happy Idiot" with an
unexpected starring role by Paul Reubens as 'Racer Steven.' Paul Reubens, the
legend himself, PEE-WEE HERMAN!
Like the best of Saturday morning and Saturday night rolled
into one, TVONTHERADIOSCOPE presents a mind-bending visual to the first single
from the bands upcoming album, Seeds, out November 18 on Harvest Records. Seeds
was recorded at Federal Prism in Los Angeles and produced by guitarist David
Andrew Sitek. <3 these guys!
"I had this idea for the video that I thought would never happen, of Paul Reubens as a race car driver who slowly loses his mind," says singer Tunde Adebimpe. " I took it to Funny or Die and they said, 'That's great, let's go for that.'"
"I got to speak with him over the phone about doing it and, in between being blindingly nervous that I was actually talking to an actor who had shaped a LOT of my world view and trying not to freak him out by saying so, he mentioned that he's been a fan of the band for awhile," Adebimpe says. "He liked the idea, and, somehow, here we are with Paul as a race car driver losing his mind."
"I got to speak with him over the phone about doing it and, in between being blindingly nervous that I was actually talking to an actor who had shaped a LOT of my world view and trying not to freak him out by saying so, he mentioned that he's been a fan of the band for awhile," Adebimpe says. "He liked the idea, and, somehow, here we are with Paul as a race car driver losing his mind."
Directed by Danny Jelinek and written by Jake Fogelnest, "Happy Idiot" features Reubens and Karen Sheila Gillan, a Scottish actress best known for her role as Amy Pond in the BBC series Doctor Who and Nebula in the current Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy.
Everyone form UK's NME and BBC to Rolling Stone and Billboard Magazine are pissing their pants because their new tunes are apparently their best yet!
"It was really fun to do, love how it came out," says Adebimpe. "I think our fans will like it. I hope so. The cool ones will anyway. The rest can suck it. I don't exactly know what 'it' is. But they can find it. And they can suck it."
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