Swedish indie pop band Miike Snow this week dropped the video for their latest single, “Genghis Khan” and it’s a darkly comic adventure into sexual attraction set against a retro James Bond backdrop which has at its centerpiece a giddy dance number.
If that won’t get you to watch the Ninian Doff-directed clip, I’m not sure what will.
The track’s lyrics will offer you a hint of the video’s direction:
I know there’s no form
And no labels to put on
To this thing we keep
And dip into when we need
And I don’t have the right
To ask where you go at night
But the waves hit my head
To think someone’s in your bed
[Chorus]
I get a little bit Genghis Khan
I don’t want you to get it on
With nobody else but me
With nobody else but me
I get a little bit Genghis Khan
Don’t want you to get it on
With nobody else but me
With nobody else but me
The track is the second single (following “Heart is Full”) off the band’s forthcoming album iii, due on March 4.
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