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Mini Mansions have discussed their "naughty" video for 'Vertigo', which features Alex Turner singing on a black-hearted verse and topless models. Watch below.
The LA trio released the video earlier this week, featuring the band and Turner surrounded by topless models and a smattering of skulls, among other objects.
Speaking to NME, singer and QOTSA member Mikey 'Shoes' Shuman said that "It's naughty. It's very naughty."
"Almost every shot is based on an old horror movie or Italian horror movies," he said. "The guy who made it basically ripped off every shot based off of something else. We did a bunch of weird shit - that's what we like doing and then see what he does with it.
"The night before, we played a private party, which was really fucking weird and we were all really hungover when we got there in the morning. There were all these naked models. It was just a weird, surreal thing, and that's the kind of video it is."
Despite the comparisons, read why Mini Mansions' 'Vertigo' video isn't the indie 'Blurred Lines' here.
Watch: Mini Manion's video for 'Vertigo' below
Speaking to Gigwise about the collaboration, Shuman said that he added a 'sexy gangster vibe'.
"We thought about a couple of different things, and we were in the studio looking for some kind of different character that hadn't yet been touched on by Tyler or my voice and we actually heard some kind of British-type thuggish kind of voice in the track, on that second verse," Shuman told Gigwise.
"I always thought it as some kind of character out of a guy Ritchie movie, that's how I always saw that voice coming in. It's a very West Coast hip-hop-influenced song, so we wanted to give it that sense of different dudes coming in and giving it that different verse. Alex has more of like a sexy, swagger that what we were initially going for, which turned out better than anything we could have imagined, really."
Mini Mansion’s new album The Great Pretenders is out now.
