Perfume Genius - 'Queen' (Official Video) - (2014)

It might not be Gary Numan, David Bowie, Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Eat The Rich and "The Birds", but it reminds me of the raw 80s aesthetic when ideas were bigger than budgets and CGI was only for Hollywood. Directed by SSION, 'Queen' is the first single taken from the upcoming album 'Too Bright'. We hitchhike, clad in a sequined gold top, through the industrial part of town where piglets fill the elevators and rooms are full of shadow birds attacking us. Mike Hadreas then dances on the table in the boardroom meeting where all the suits are eating actual giant shrimp, and our fellow traveller the overly made up blond is now the pink-nailed bosswoman. It all ends when Mike is lead to the edge and a suicide fall turns all the darkness into bliss - and Mike himself into a pile of feathers.

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Director: Cody Critcheloe (www.ssion.com)
DP & Editing: Christopher Good
Producer: Megan Mantia
Executive Producer: Lou Marron
Assistant camera: Matt Blume
Gaffers: Marcus Guider, Eric Rowlands, Anthony Piazza
Grip: Anthony Putzier
Post: Daniel Goggin
Locations & Casting: Megan Mantia
Prop Fabricator: Mary Nichols
Prop Master: Megan Mantia
Styling: Natasha Newman-Thomas
Hair: Bailey Stiles
Make up: Sam Bernstein
Cheerleader outfits: Leone Anne Reeves & Cameron Guthrie
Support by: Through A Glass Productions & Hint Production Assistants: Anson the Ornery, Brandon Nemeth, Zack Zakibe, Margo May, Emma Penrose, Brandon Segelke, Jeremy Osbern, Jimmy Darrah.
Cast: Erica Peterson, Brock Potucek, Mike Teeter, Bill Worley, Loren Macias, Raws, Terry Herron, Michael Halpern, John Toynton of Hoffman Model and Talent Agency, Scott Merrill of Hoffman Model and Talent Agency, Brad Banning of Hoffman Model and Talent Agency, David Heinemann, Phil Crawford, Nina Wussow, Isabella Wussow Kiana Martinez, Becca Sterling, Alexus Wily, Faith Lockard, Allee Herrman, Sophie Ruoff, Adrienne Looker, and Alix Caldwell.