The Flaming Lips delivered some Yuletide merriment on Tuesday with a new video for “A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn’t So)”. The song originally appeared on the Lips’ 2003 EP, Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell.
This new rendition of the song serves to cap off an eventful year for the Oklahoma City-bred pop-psych rockers. Back in September, they released their 16th album, American Head, and soon after pioneered a new development in sanitary concert-going with their innovative bubble concert. The Flaming Lips performed a successful trial run of the design at The Criterion in October. The band had then planned to mount two full-fledged shows at the same venue earlier this month but postponed those dates to January 2021 out of an abundance of caution over rising COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma.
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Frontman Wayne Coyne noted in an Instagram post about the new video that, what started as a selfie music video, eventually evolved into a full-fledged new version of the song. Alongside multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd on piano and bassist Michael Ivins raining down homemade confetti, Coyne takes centerstage in full Grinch makeup with his 15-month-old son, Bloom Bobby Coyne, on his lap.
From Bloom trying to put his hand in Wayne’s mouth to the confetti also landing in his mouth throughout, the video takes on a real homemade feel like many of the best Christmas presents. Meanwhile, Coyne delivers the Flaming Lips’ own take on the season of giving, “When mankind reveals its truest potential/And there is sympathy for the suffering.”
Watch the new video for “A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn’t So)” from The Flaming Lips.
The Flaming Lips – “A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn’t So)” [Official Music Video]
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