If Primus wanted to go for the obvious, the band's new clip for "Tragedy's a' Comin'" -- their first video in eleven years -- could have featured any number of post apocalyptic scenarios or personal tragedies. But then they wouldn't be Primus, and we wouldn't have a lobster lament on our hands.
"Musically, it's upbeat," singer/bassist Les Claypool told IFC. "But lyrically, the song is all about impending doom. This last year has been a trying time in my world, with my mother fading away, my brother's baby boy getting diagnosed with leukaemia, and other people having various ailments. So the song is about a storm coming, the rain must fall. But to depict that would have been the cliché thing to do, so we've got lobsters."
As a lobster sits in his tank, he's forced to watch all his friends get plucked out and served up to socialites one by one,...
"Musically, it's upbeat," singer/bassist Les Claypool told IFC. "But lyrically, the song is all about impending doom. This last year has been a trying time in my world, with my mother fading away, my brother's baby boy getting diagnosed with leukaemia, and other people having various ailments. So the song is about a storm coming, the rain must fall. But to depict that would have been the cliché thing to do, so we've got lobsters."
As a lobster sits in his tank, he's forced to watch all his friends get plucked out and served up to socialites one by one,...
- 11/17/2011
- by IFC
- ifc.com
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