The Black Lips' Puppet-Packed Video Is More Creepy Than 'Funny' — mtv.com

Puppets, on the whole, are pretty freaking creepy— and they become even more horror-tastic when paired with some dirty rock 'n' roll. Exhibit A: the Black Lips' new video for "Funny," off of their recently released album, Underneath the Rainbow. As with much of the Lips' music, there's a dark kind of dissonance to "Funny": a clap-along chorus ("I don't feel so corny now/Now that the worlds turned upside down!") mixed with a kind of manic, watch-the-world burn energy, topped off, finally, with Cole Alexander's rasping, almost pleading voice.

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