Synopsis
The Stills move through New York City streets as ordinary urban life repeatedly erupts into surreal bursts of flame. The band's walk-and-perform footage shifts between color and black and white, while pedestrians flee subway stations and scramble for safety. The explosions are timed to the song's guitar accents, making the band seem to trigger the city's disorder. The result is an uneasy portrait of life after 9/11, balancing everyday movement, political anxiety, and the sudden fear that danger may be hiding beneath the surface.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was the first promotional clip for The Stills' debut album, *Logic Will Break Your Heart*, and accompanied the album's opening track.
- Several US television networks reportedly banned the video because of its perceived allusions to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- The production's central visual idea links the bursts of fire to the band's music. The explosions appear during the song's transitions and larger guitar passages, suggesting that the group is generating the chaos around them.
- Its imagery reflects the unease of the early 2000s, when New York was still living with heightened security concerns, terrorism warnings, and pressure to resume normal life.
- The clip includes a visual nod to Radiohead's "Just," another video built around people in a city reacting to a mysterious and disruptive event.
- An enhanced version of the video was included with editions of the "Lola Stars and Stripes" single.