Stefan Nadelman’s excellent new music video for Menomena’s “Evil Bee” has just about everything you could ever want in a music video: Conflict. Love. Freedom. Death. Regurgitation of nutrient-rich fluids. It even has a fun Soylent Green twist at the end.
The video, underwritten by PF Flyers (who’s exclusively hosting the video until October 31st), is a wonderful blend of surreal storytelling and quirky animation. As regular readers know, I’m not usually a fan of music videos. I think it’s just so damned hard to create three-to-five minutes of sustainable, entertaining stuff.
But if people keep pumping out projects like this, maybe I’ll finally come around…