Idolator

Amazing. I spit out my tea when the end rolled around. Almost as good as the late lamented "Sequestered in Muppets."

Daaawwww...alright, I can start my day now.

I expected a lot from that video... and it even exceeded those expectations.

I'm sick as a dog today, but I'm feeling much better now.

at first i thought it was just some enterprising muppeteer's observation that Murphy sounds a little like Kermit T. Frog on the first verse of that song - and it was!

i kept wanting Kermit to give a wary look over his shoulder at the NYPD van behind him in the one shot.

I'd be more hyped about this video if I wasn't massively annoyed by the song: James Murphy barely seems cognizant that New York city has problems beyond those of its hipoisie.

Good, but nothing beats this:

@Dickdogfood: I think that's kind of the implicit point -- the song's practically about self-centered aging-cool ennui.

I was hoping for Miss Piggy to emerge.

Waited all day to watch this- it's so unexpectedly cute! The line about Bloomberg thinking he's a king has even more resonance right now, too.

how did i not make a muppets take manhattan joke here :(

@Varina: Right! Man, that's even more prescient than I thought.

@Maura Johnston:

Gonzo: Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor, I'm looking for a frog who can sing and dance!

Ed Koch: If he can balance the budget, I'll hire him!

@Dickdogfood: I think you're selling the song short -- it's of a piece with "All My Friends," which starts out as a song about an aging hipster wondering where he's going to party and ends as a moving meditation on loneliness. This is kind of the other way around, starting out lonely, smirking at some people's perceptions of what an "over" New York is like, and then ending fully defeated.

Plus, don't forget: this song was written (and first leaked) in '06, when New York's Mis-shapes party era was still raging and no one thought the housing bubble would ever burst. For Murphy to even record this then was slightly (slightly) counterintuitive and insurrectionist.

cool stuff