Frontman Josh Homme takes some businessmen for a wild night out on the town:
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme gets crazy with a group of Asian businessmen in the video for the
. . . Like Clockwork track
Smooth Sailing. With shots flowing, the sleek-haired, redheaded rocker guides a merry band of misfits as they pretend umbrellas are machine guns and generally act drunk and douchey in a mall. On the lighter side of the video’s plot, they all share some bromance over some karaoke – which, of course, is for the song
Smooth Sailing. At its darkest, the clip finds one of the businessmen letting a little too loose, as he begins hallucinating and uses a golf club in a manner unbefitting of the PGA.
The video projects
a sort of deep-seated, displaced anger – a quality that’s no stranger to Homme, who derided both the Grammys and Grammy winners Imagine Dragons at a concert in February (2014?). In January, the Grammys had cut short Queens’ end-of-show collaboration with Nine Inch Nails, Dave Grohl and Fleetwood Mac‘s Lindsey Buckingham.
"You know, f
uck everything, f
uck the man, f
uck Imagine Dragons, f
uck the Grammys, f
uck all this sh
it," he said at the February concert.
source:
https://www.rollingstone.comThe band flexes their bluesy stylings, while letting Homme sing about how good it’s going to feel to pompously “burn bridges” and “blow my load over the status quo”.
"Smooth Sailing"It's all in motion, ain't no stopping now
I got nothing to lose and only one way, up
I'm burning bridges, I destroy the mirage
All visions of collisions, fuckin' bon voyage
It's all smooth sailing from here on out
I got: bruises and hickeys, stitches and scars
Got my own theme music plays wherever I are
Fear is the hand that pulls your strings
You're a useless toy, pitiful plaything
I'm in flagrante, in every way, every day
It's all smooth sailing from here on out
I'm gonna do the damage that needs getting done
God only knows one long vacation
If reason is priceless, there's no reason to pay for it
It's so easy to see, yet so hard to find
Make a mountain of a molehill, if the molehill is mine
I hypnotize you, ignore, then defy you
I blow my load over the status quo... oh
Here we go
I'm a little bit nonchalant when I dance
I risk it always, no second chance
That's why it's gotta be
It's all smooth sailing from here on out
I'm gonna do the damage 'til the damage is done
God only knows so mind your behavior
Follow prescriptions of your loaded saviour
Every temple needs gold
Like every hook needs to shine
Headaches at the temple of the closed mind
Closed mind
Closed mind
Closed mind
It's all smooth sailing from here on out
Shut up...
Pow!