Synopsis

A stranger enters a neon-lit club where Yeasayer perform behind a chain-link fence as dancers move through fog, lasers and shifting colored light. He drifts through the crowd, attracting increasingly uneasy stares from the partygoers. The seemingly ordinary club scene gradually takes on the feel of an offbeat 1980s science-fiction film. When the stranger reveals that he can change shape, the crowd rejects him and he is thrown out, leaving the performance to continue amid the video’s surreal spectacle.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video deliberately revives the classic band-playing-in-a-club format, a style the group felt had become unusual among contemporary indie acts.

• Yeasayer wanted the clip to update the visual language of 1990s one-hit-wonder videos and Milli Vanilli-style pop productions rather than make another purely abstract art video.

• The shape-shifting stranger was conceived as a character from an imaginary 1980s science-fiction movie. The visual team described the concept as a combination of performance video and "weird."

• The production used practical lighting tricks alongside digital effects. Crew members created unpredictable flashes and movement by manipulating plastic sheets, cardboard and a modified garbage-can lid near bright lights.

• The performers and extras were styled as futuristic clubgoers, with elaborate costumes and makeup reinforcing the video’s post-apocalyptic party atmosphere.

• "O.N.E." was released from Yeasayer's 2010 album "Odd Blood." The online video uses a shorter version of the song than the 5:23 album recording.