SONG OF THE DAY
“Heads Will Roll” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (It’s Blitz!, Interscope Records, 2009). Written by Brian Chase, Karen Orzolek, and Nick Zinner.
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– “Heads Will Roll” is the second single released by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their third album, It’s Blitz!.
– The song was remixed by Kanye West’s former touring DJ, A-Trak.
– The music video was directed by Richard Ayoade. It features the band playing in a – presumably – underground venue when a dancing werewolf (whose dancing is reminiscent that of Michael Jackson) appears on stage. A light flashes halfway through the music video and the werewolf transforms. He then proceeds to chase after the audience and kills most of them. The video then ends with the band having been murdered while Karen O continues singing, her head severed from her body. The music video contains some mockery of horror in general; instead of blood, there is red glitter and confetti and Karen O keeps singing with her head separated from her body.
– It was nominated for a VMA for “Breakthrough Video”.
– In 2011, the song was performed as a mash-up with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on the American television show Glee for the episode “The Sue Sylvester Shuffle”.
– The song was also used in the promotional videos for Showtime Networks television series The Tudors.
– It was used in the video game Gran Turismo 5.