The Kooks recently released a slick, well executed, and sexy video for their latest tune "Bad Habit," the third single from Brighton group's latest fourth album, "Listen." Shot entirely in black and white, the ultra coy clip was ommissioned to the group by a "super fan," director TJ Andrade, according to Facebook, is all about a very attractive young woman and her numerous online admirers. A bad habit indeed...
The British foursome - Luke Pritchard (vocals/guitar), Hugh Harris (guitar), Max Rafferty (bass), and Paul Garred (drums) generate the rubbishy garage rock sounds of The Kooks, named after the song on David Bowie's "Hunky Dory." With songs described as "catchy as hell," The Kooks have experimented in several genres including rock, Britpop, pop, reggae, ska, and more recently, funk and hip-hop, being described once as a "more energetic Thrills or a looser Sam Roberts Band, maybe even a less severe Arctic Monkeys at times."
The street-smart garage rock of "Bad Habit," as told by frontman Pritchard during their Radio1045 Studio Session, is about someone with a sex addiction, so you can kind of put two and two together after watching the new video for "Bad Habit," a sexy web cam model dances for people while breaking hearts across the internet. But there's also a deeper message in there somewhere.
The hook for the song, which also summarizes the entire theme of the video goes as follows: "You say you want it/ But you can't get it." The video shows a nubile young woman apparently doing a semi-striptease for some unknown watchers on a web cam. The video seems to toy with a variety of taboo subjects: internet sexuality, the objectification of women, feminism, the inherent dangers of internet interactivity, etc. The main takeaway from the video occurs at the very end, when the woman dons her clothes and flips the bird at the camera as she leaves for the day.
The British foursome - Luke Pritchard (vocals/guitar), Hugh Harris (guitar), Max Rafferty (bass), and Paul Garred (drums) generate the rubbishy garage rock sounds of The Kooks, named after the song on David Bowie's "Hunky Dory." With songs described as "catchy as hell," The Kooks have experimented in several genres including rock, Britpop, pop, reggae, ska, and more recently, funk and hip-hop, being described once as a "more energetic Thrills or a looser Sam Roberts Band, maybe even a less severe Arctic Monkeys at times."
The street-smart garage rock of "Bad Habit," as told by frontman Pritchard during their Radio1045 Studio Session, is about someone with a sex addiction, so you can kind of put two and two together after watching the new video for "Bad Habit," a sexy web cam model dances for people while breaking hearts across the internet. But there's also a deeper message in there somewhere.
The hook for the song, which also summarizes the entire theme of the video goes as follows: "You say you want it/ But you can't get it." The video shows a nubile young woman apparently doing a semi-striptease for some unknown watchers on a web cam. The video seems to toy with a variety of taboo subjects: internet sexuality, the objectification of women, feminism, the inherent dangers of internet interactivity, etc. The main takeaway from the video occurs at the very end, when the woman dons her clothes and flips the bird at the camera as she leaves for the day.
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