Synopsis
The Flaming Lips and New Fumes' "Girl, You're So Weird" is a deliberately strange, NSFW psychedelic performance piece. Against a dark studio backdrop, painted nude women move in slow motion while colored smoke, glitter, disco balls, and strips of plastic create a hazy visual collage. Wayne Coyne and the other performers appear amid the spectacle, with Coyne dressed in a full suit. The video favors atmosphere, provocation, and surreal imagery over a conventional narrative.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video premiered on April 16, 2012, ahead of Record Store Day.
- "Girl, You're So Weird" appeared on *The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends*, the band's 2012 collaborative album, which was released as part of Record Store Day on April 21, 2012.
- The song runs for approximately 3 minutes and 21 seconds and features New Fumes.
- The clip was widely labeled NSFW because it includes uncensored nudity.
- Its visual palette combines body paint, colored smoke bombs, glitter, disco-ball reflections, and translucent plastic strips, matching the Flaming Lips' taste for psychedelic and deliberately unconventional presentation.
- The track was one of many collaborations on *The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends*, an album that also included contributions from artists such as Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Yoko Ono, Tame Impala, and Kesha.
- The video's release helped promote a particularly unusual Record Store Day project: limited editions of the album were associated with the Flaming Lips' famously extreme physical-release experiments, including editions containing performers' blood.