We expected to hear the new singles from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs latest, It’s Blitz!, when the formidable trio performed on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, but what we didn’t expect was to hear an old stand by. Of course they played the New Wave inspired dance number “Zero” to open their SNL set, but they closed with the nearly six-years-old “Maps”. Unfortunately, while they like playing on television, the band and label does not want us to be able show you (at least not “Maps”), so we’ve decided to run this backstage interview clip with Fred Armisen as a precursor to the clip of “Zero”. With an image this carefully crafted, it’s funny to see and hear the band be so nervous answering questions about themselves. Maybe this is why we’ve yet to really see or hear anything from the band directly, but either way, as the performance of “Zero” shows us, they have no problem being stars on stage.
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Last week we told you that Yeah Yeah Yeahs decided to push up the release date of their new album, It’s Blitz!, from its original April release to March 10, after the highly anticipated album leaked onto the internet. Now, the band has released its newest video, “Zero”, off of their upcoming record, and if Karen O’s sassy struts throughout the video can’t convince you to listen to the band’s new album, then we don’t know what will.
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By all accounts, it looks as though the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have left their rock roots in the past and are focused squarely on the pop. As evidenced by their second single in as many weeks, “Heads Will Roll”.
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The first official single off of It’s Blitz! is a dance-inspired number that has Karen O telling us to “get our leather on.” As the Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman told Rolling Stone, the new record is “Less angst and more positivity, man!” Just the cure for the recession doldrums.
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