Foo Fighters have dropped the music video for their track ‘No Son Of Mine’, following the release of their tenth studio album Medicine At Midnight.
While it is the studio version of the song that is included on the new album, the music video features audio that was recorded live.
Directed by Danny Clinch, the video features footage of the band performing mixed with animated clips. The animation follows a man to a bar where he drinks and does lines of cocaine, before heading to a casino.
‘No Son Of Mine’ is the second of three singles to have dropped from Medicine at Midnight so far, with the album’s release having been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an interview with SiriusXM’s Alt Nation (via Blabbermouth), lead singer Dave Grohl described the album as a “groove-oriented sort of party record”.
“It’s our tenth album, and it’s our 25th anniversary. We’re like, okay, let’s look back at all the stuff that we’ve done before. We’ve made that loud sort of noisy punk rock fast stuff. We’ve made the sleepy acoustic kind of gentle acoustic record stuff. We’ve done the three- or four-minute-long bubblegum rock and roll, pop, single thing before. And it was, like, well, what haven’t we done? And we had never really made a groove-oriented sort of party record,” he said.
He continued: “It’s hard to put the words ‘dance’ or ‘funk’ or ‘disco’ in the same sentence as the Foo Fighters; it scares the shit out of me. But all of us grew up loving rock and roll records that you could like bounce around to, like The Cars. Like, oh my God, we love The Cars. Or David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’. Or Power Station. Or The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ — things like that. We’re, like, ‘All right. We’ve never really explored that territory before. Let’s do it.”
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Grohl went on to add that he thinks the band are “capable of doing almost anything”.
“We’re lucky in that everybody in the band has diverse influences and everybody loves different kinds of music, but I honestly think we’re capable of doing almost anything,” he said.
“So if we put our minds to it, we can kind of chameleon and turn into a death metal band, or we could be like The Carpenters. So we just have to come together and make the decision, like, ‘All right, which way do we wanna go? Which way are we gonna turn the wheel?’ And this time we did it to make this party record.”
Check out the music video for ‘No Son Of Mine’ by Foo Fighters:
