Watch Tune-Yards' 'Charlie Chaplin–Like' 'Real Thing' Video — rollingstone.com

The line between what's real and what's surreal is blurred by Easter-y colors in Tune-Yards' pastel-painted video for "Real Thing." Throughout the clip, mannequins assemble body parts from other dummies, frontwoman Merill Garbus breaks through walls and body suits and faces off with weird human-mannequin hybrids while singing the track from Tune-Yards' latest record, Nikki Nack. Interestingly, Garbus said in a statement that "Real Thing" was the one Nikki Nack song she didn't want to make into a music video. "It has too many images of its own in the lyrics, and could mean so many different things for different listeners," she said. "I love leaving room for audiences to paint their own mental pictures. What changed my mind is wanting so much for this particular song to be heard by more people. We chose [video director] Tom Jobbins' idea because it framed the sometimes heavy lyrics in a Charlie Chaplin–like, humorous idea of me being a box of body parts in a factory. A simple and light-hearted backdrop for some complex and weighty ideas."

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