QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
‘THE WAY YOU USED TO DO’
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:
“Dancing and headbanging are truly individualistic expressions of losing oneself fully in appreciation of music – who better to combine these things into a singular vision than someone who’s directed Madonna and Lady Gaga videos – and also happens to have been a member of Bathory?” —Joshua Homme
The video for “The Way You Used To Do,” taken from Queens Of The Stone Age’s UK Number One album Villains, is now available to view on Youtube for the first time. The devilish promo has been realized as a fever dream Satanic dance ritual extravaganza—featuring QOTSA founder and frontman Joshua Homme lighter on his feet and darker in his soul than ever before.
Conceived by Joshua Homme, directed by Jonas Akerlund and produced by Serial Pictures, “The Way You Used To Do,” somehow fit its multiple sets, wardrobe changes and intricate dance routines into one day of shooting in Los Angeles. Considering potential reactions to the sinister shuffle of “The Way We Used To Do” being translated into a panoramic soul-selling dance trip, Homme says “It’s our way of paying tribute to Cab Calloway and the film Hellzapoppin’. I fully realize that may be a little more than some are open to, and that’s perfectly fine with me. There’s the door. If some of the more close-minded are gently pruned, that just leaves more room on the dance floor for the open-minded ones to get loose. That’s been the spirit of Queens Of The Stone Age and the space we’ve worked to create from day one.”
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
VILLAINS
OUT NOW ON
MATADOR RECORDS / RHYTHMETHOD
1. Feet Don’t Fail Me
2. The Way You Used To Do
3. Domesticated Animals
4. Fortress
5. Head Like A Haunted House
6. Un-Reborn Again
7. Hideaway
8. The Evil Has Landed
9. Villains Of Circumstance
Praise for Villains
“Villains is brilliant. It’s all the things that make QOTSA such a thrilling band condensed into a jolting, compact rock record” / “Desert-dry guitars, motorik rhythms and his own too-cool-for-school-croon…Josh Homme’s winning formula” ???? Q Magazine
“Heroic stuff…..Homme had already done more than anyone of his generation to pump new heart into rock. Now with an unlikely ally, he’s revived the soul too” / “Quintessential QOTSA swagger” ???? MOJO
“QOTSA at peak party…The sound of living in the moment and it’s glorious” ???? NME
“Josh Homme and Mark Ronson make dance rock theatre”/ “A surprisingly welcome balance between Black Sabbath and disco”Uncut 8/10 “Deep and danceable delight” / “My, have they come to party”Classic Rock 9/10“A great rock ‘n’ roll group” / “Josh Homme’s desert vikings beef up their myth” / “sweet and supple melodies galore on this Mark Ronson-produced album” ???? The Guardian
“One great riff and hook after another” ???? The Times
“wisecracks about mortality over a driving Led Zeppelin groove” ???? Financial Times
“Off-hand cool” ???? i
“Tight as heck and curiously admirable” ???? Evening Standard
“A reinvention that manages to sound both quintessentially QOTSA and forward-thinking… Villains cuts comfortably shoulder the best of QOTSA’s back-catalogue” ???? Kerrang!
“Their most danceable offering yet -and all the better for it” ????? DIY MaG
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