Talking Heads’ killer comeback
Celebrating 50 years since their first show at NYC club CBGB, the American rock band releases a hypnotic promo for 1977 track Psycho Killer starring actor Saoirse Ronan.
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Credits
View on- Director Mike Mills
- Executive Producer David Zander
- Executive Producer Eriks Krumins
- Head of Production Marthinus Lamprecht
- Producer Youree Henley
- Producer Steven J Gottlieb
- Production Designer Mary Florence Brown
- DP Arseni Khachaturan
- Editor Joe Nankin
- Colorist Mark Gethin
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Credits
powered by- Director Mike Mills
- Executive Producer David Zander
- Executive Producer Eriks Krumins
- Head of Production Marthinus Lamprecht
- Producer Youree Henley
- Producer Steven J Gottlieb
- Production Designer Mary Florence Brown
- DP Arseni Khachaturan
- Editor Joe Nankin
- Colorist Mark Gethin
Fifty years seems an excessively long time to wait for a music video, but for this intriguing new promo for Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer, we’ll allow it.
Despite being made half a century after the song’s 1977 release, the video - directed by Mike Mills and starring Saoirse Ronan - feels right on time, its themes striking a chord with a new generation of fans.
Sidestepping the violent and bloody imagery you might expect from a track about a psychotic killer, Mills instead weaves a disorienting narrative about the slow mental unravelling of a young woman trapped in the monotony of modern life and overwhelmed by creeping existential dread.
