![]() The video made such an impression when it dropped that it even spawned a reference on Beavis and Butt-Head, in which Butt-Head concludes: "Yeah. Timony's experimental impulse goes into overdrive in the "XXX" video, where we see her soloing on top of a derelict escalator, bending her guitar's strings with such effortlessness and skill that it seems almost - well, practiced. So that whole batch of songs from Pirate Prude is me almost fighting with the guitar and playing it badly." "It was almost this deconstructing what I knew how to do, or something. instead of playing how I knew how to play it, I would play stuff with one finger, bend the strings, detune a lot," she says. ![]() "I was in this phase in my music where I wanted to unlearn everything, so I developed this way. Eyes rolling, she declares: "My heart is not a sports car / My heart is a cab / Your love is a fad / And you're a drag."īut the prevailing "XXX"-era memory that stands out in Timony's mind is that it was a formative period of deconstruction. Helium's vocalist and guitarist Mary Timony (now in Ex Hex) shreds while aimlessly scratching her leg with her foot, a disaffected expression on her face. In the video for the bittersweet, narcoleptic dirge, the band is half-shrouded by projections of lysergic liquid bubbles gurgling over said projector. ![]() ![]() It features the Boston band loitering around a cavernous former hospital, destroying an overhead projector, and watching a building be demolished. Yet few videos are as capricious (and cheeky) as Helium's "XXX," newly cleaned up from its poor YouTube rips. The art of the moody, attitude-filled music video peaked in the 1990s, with the likes of Natalie Imbruglia's " Torn" and Liz Phair's " Stratford-On-Guy" giving adult angst an iconic aesthetic. Helium's rarities compilation Ends With And, plus vinyl reissues of The Dirt Of Luck, The Magic City and the No Guitars EP, come out May 19. ![]()
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