Synopsis

At a 1960s pool party, a seemingly harmless encounter takes an unexpectedly disturbing turn when a man gives a woman a teddy bear and she suddenly vomits on it. Bret Easton Ellis' detached narration rewinds the scene, encouraging viewers to inspect the action in slow motion and identify the hidden clues behind the incident. What first appears to be a carefree celebration gradually becomes an intricate mystery involving secret motives, sexual tension, and a chain of unfortunate details.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video is the second installment of the "Unfortunate Details" series, following Placebo's "Too Many Friends."

• Bret Easton Ellis provides the narration in the same deliberately dispassionate style used for "Too Many Friends."

• The pool-party setting deliberately contrasts with the previous video's vision of a disconnected near future. Here, the imagery evokes the late 1960s and an era of heightened social and sexual interaction.

• The clip functions as an interactive-style mystery. Viewers are asked to study the sequence and work out what caused the incident.

• Reports about the production identified 71 separate clues hidden throughout the video, including suspicious objects, gestures, and background actions.

• Placebo released the song as the title track of its seventh studio album, "Loud Like Love," with the video arriving in March 2014.