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ShareThe Talking Heads song “This Must Be The Place” has always been a favorite for fans. It has a catchy beat that you can dance to and great moments of inflection that you can sing along with. The lyrics have a kind of weird intensity to them, “I guess that this must be the place” is not the typical gushing praise you’d expect in a pop love song. By the second verse, “If someone asks this is where I’ll be” and “You’ll love me till my heart stops” are shouted to emphasize how much time develops a situation. The slow acceptance of a relationship that feels awkward but grows familiar and loving is something that resonates with all of us.
Which is what makes Miles Fisher’s debut music video a particularly stand-out effort. Fisher is an amazing stand-in for Christian Bale and if you follow the Vimeo link you can see some other spoofs showing his talent at capturing the Hollywood ‘White Guy’ character. The song itself is a solid cover of “This Must Be the Place”, minimalizing certain areas and fleshing out others to make it into a more modern dance tune. But the video itself, which parodies various scenes from the cult classic American Psycho, takes the sense of discomfort and longing in the song’s lyrics in disturbing directions. The opening lyrics of loneliness are sung by Fisher as he dances around the apartment alone with his axe standing for air guitar. A limo pulls up and he extends a folded bill to a prostitute while mouthing, “never for money, always for love”. In the window’s reflection she mouths, “I love the passage of time.” Little moments like this are scattered throughout the video, poking at the song’s conception of love when embraced by a modern day Jack the Ripper. As the film pointed out and the music video continues to examine, even monsters enjoy pop music.
