{"id":160738,"date":"2025-06-05T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160738\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:07:09","slug":"talking-heads-share-new-psycho-killer-video-starring-saoirse-ronan-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160738\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Heads Share New \u201cPsycho Killer\u201d Video Starring Saoirse Ronan: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4357-talking-heads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Heads<\/a> are celebrating their 50th anniversary by releasing the first-ever video for \u201cPsycho Killer.\u201d The band enlisted the great <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/mikemillsmikemills.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/mikemillsmikemills.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/mikemillsmikemills.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Mills<\/a> to direct, with Saoirse Ronan starring as an office worker who dances, squirms, shudders, and screams through her daily routine. \u201cThis video makes the song better,\u201d the band said in a press release. \u201cWe LOVE what this video is NOT\u2014it\u2019s not literal, creepy, bloody, physically violent or obvious.\u201d Watch it below, and stay tuned for Talking Heads\u2019 ongoing celebrations of the 50 years since their formation.<\/p>\n<p>Mills, who previously directed the National\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-the-national-mike-mills-directed-film-i-am-easy-to-find\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Am Easy to Find short film<\/a>, said Talking Heads\u2019 debut album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/talking-heads-talking-heads-77\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Heads: 77<\/a>, \u201cliterally changed what was possible in life for me.\u201d He went on, \u201cTo get to play with the subversive, uncategorizable beauty of Talking Heads, and to play with Saoirse who brought so much surprise, power, vulnerability and mischief to the party, it\u2019s one of the best things I ever got to be a part of\u2014still can\u2019t believe it actually happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ronan added, \u201cTo simply be mentioned in the same breath as Talking Heads is hands down one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me, let alone making a video with the singular Mike Mills to accompany one of their most iconic songs\u2014\u2018Psycho Killer.\u2019 I have grown up listening to their music, so this truly is a childhood\/teenage\/lifelong dream come true. Mike, myself and the rest of the creative team had so much fun making this, and I can\u2019t wait for Talking Heads fans to see it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Revisit Andy Cush\u2019s 2021 interview \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/interview\/talking-heads-reunion-2023-stop-making-sense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Heads\u2019 Original Lineup on Stop Making Sense, Their Early Days, and the Future<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking Heads are celebrating their 50th anniversary by releasing the first-ever video for \u201cPsycho Killer.\u201d The band enlisted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15,359],"class_list":{"0":"post-160738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114631858399061232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}