Ooooooh... political.

Spike Jonze off-of loved-by-hipsters and Great Björk Videos has done a music vid for Arcade Fire, in thanks for their rerecorded version of "Wake Up", what appeared in the trailer for Where The Wild Things Are.

Maybe we're thicker than our sophisticated writing style might suggest, but we didn't totally get this. It seemed more of a 'mood' piece about violent/disillusioned teenagers with a very vague and loose plot, than something distinctly narrative. But then are so tired we're propping our eyelids open with kirby grips ('bobby pins' as les Americans say) so maybe we just fell asleep for most of the video and woke up unaware of what had actually gone on.

This theme, of teenagers bored, lustful and angry, trapped in hot suburban sprawl, desperate to escape, and lazy with summer, is so ridiculously up our street we feel a bit sick with excitement, just considering it, but it seems to have been pulled off only semi-spectacularly. Maybe we're just impossible to please, but it didn't set our world alight, and, dare we say it, felt just the tiniest bit 'seen it before' (don't ask us where, we can't remember, 3G internet killed our braincells).

Anyway, it's an enjoyable enough watch and certainly more though-provoking than the recent Keri Hilson debaucle (more of which later)... Actually on second thoughts...