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Yeah Yeah Yeahs can now cross "perform on top of the Empire State Building" off their bucket list. That's what they do in the video for their Mosquito track "Despair", directed by Patrick Daughters.
"There's been a lot of career highs and lows over the years of being in a band, but in the end, how many can say they shot a video on the top of the Empire State Building? We win,” said Karen O in a press release. “Move out the way, King Kong, Yeah Yeah Yeahs are gonna get real with you up in this piece!” Watch as the band performs the track while the sun rises over New York City, in the video below, via Noisey.
Karen O talked about working with Daughters (who directed the YYYs videos for "Maps", "Turn Into", "Date With the Night", and "Gold Lion") once again for the video:
“I felt like I could give as personal a performance because of our history together. It was important to us that it felt intimate despite being filmed at one of NYC's most famous landmarks and an international cultural icon. It was my first-ever trip up to the top of the ESB, top of the world, we were up there from 3am to sunrise, I'm guessing very few get to see that view from up there at those hours.
“I gotta say I had a ‘the impossible is possible’ moment up there with Nick and Brian. If someone would have sat us down at the Mars Bar years back and told us that we'd be performing our music on the top of the Empire State Building one day, we probably would have thought that's the stuff that dreams are made of, not us, no way.”
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