Synopsis

A bored suburban teenager turns a borrowed credit card into a license for spectacular mischief. He invades a neighbor's home, setting off fireworks, smashing dishes, covering the rooms with bubbles and balloons, and bathing in a giant bowl of milk and cereal. The apparently playful destruction gradually takes on a darker edge, especially when a woman is restrained upstairs. The video's candy-colored absurdity and violent slapstick mirror the Pixies' abrasive, sneering song without featuring the band itself.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Bagboy" was released on June 28, 2013, as the Pixies' first new song in nearly a decade. It was initially offered as a free download through the band's website.

• The video was built around the idea of entering the mind of a child who has just obtained a credit card. The production team combined numerous unrelated visual ideas and used the storyline to make them fit together.

• The lead role was played by Nik Harper's younger brother after the production abandoned a conventional casting search. Harper's sister also appeared in a small but important part.

• The shoot took place in Lamar's mother's house. The production reportedly paid her to stay away during filming so the crew could freely stage the destruction.

• The production used two RED cameras and worked with a relatively modest budget, making the deliberately excessive set pieces especially resourceful.

• The backing vocals that many listeners initially mistook for Kim Deal were performed by Jeremy Dubs, a friend of Black Francis. Deal had left the Pixies shortly before the song was released.

• A second official video appeared in July 2013. Rather than extending the teenager's story, it used macabre stop-motion imagery and was based on a piece of artwork by Vaughan Oliver, the artist closely associated with the Pixies' 4AD visual identity.