The new Hot Chip video seems like it is trying to trick people into thinking that they are a boy band. Then the video 'gets all zany' and some guy with cancer starts to shoot lasers at the members of the boy band, then joins the boy band, then some black guy shoots lasers out of his eyes and kills the boy band.

Confused. Relieved that the video features tons of hot entry level alt tween girls in wayfarers with clear lenses + Palestinian scarves.

Wonder if this is supposed to be 'loved by alts' because it is commentary on the mainstream, or if it is supposed to 'crossover' into mainstreamland because it provides commentary on a ~10 year old part of pop culture. (Maybe these bands are still big in Europe.) It seems like this might have been relevant criticism of the boy band phenomenon during the early 2000s / late 1990s, during the peak of Backstreet Boy / NSYNC mania.

Seems plausible that they 'ripped off' this idea from Blink 182, who made the timely video for 'All the Small Things' in 2000, which parodied the boy band craze of the late 1990s. Maybe it is time to start re-thinking Blink 182 as one of the greatest/most important bands of all time.

Is Blink 182 the perfect alternative band?

Was this video 'alt'?
Was it good to see Hot Chip make something that didn't involve dancing in front of green screens?
Is it still relevant to make fun of boybands 10 years later?
Did Hot Chip rip off Blink 182?
Can patients undergoing chemotherapy shoot lasers from their mouths ?