Offspring Approach Latest Video
Before the filming of the video “(Not Get My) Head Around You,” the second single from the latest album Offspring, Splinter, Dexter, Noodles and company are preparing for their close-ups. All 125 of them.
More than that many cameras were used to film the clip, the director Joseph Kahn (Britney Spears, Eminem), which is described as “the best video performance.” The 19 hours of production, which was shot late last month, the band needed to play in dealing with the multitude of lenses. Each camera footage will be edited together for a circular chamber effect similar to the “Matrix” movies “bullet time”.
The performance-based clip is a complete reversal of the videotape of the last, the narrative “Hit That,” in which the group has been totally absent from the hearing (see “Lens Recap: The Story Behind The Offspring” Hit That “).
“With video, which is very important in Latin America,” said singer Dexter Holland. “Because it is one thing to hear a song too much on the radio, and you go, ‘Maybe I am sick of this song. “But if a group can be made in the video and what he sees too, is not video, but you get sick of the band.”
The song, which appeared on the radio last week, is a return to the mid-1990 Offspring, Smash-time way. The whoa-oh-oh shattering guitars and choruses are closer to his breakthrough songs like “Come Out and Play” of his 1998 novelty hit “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” and the mid-tempo along singing “Hit That.” No matter how far the Offspring may stretch their creativity, Holland said his old school punk influences always permeate their albums.
“It’s the nature of being at the heart of what we do,” he said. “That is the kind of music that inspired us to start a band. Bands I grew up listening to Orange County, groups such as adolescents and TSOL And then, of course, Kennedy had not died and the Ramones and all is one thing, A many more people.
