Y Control - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

What this video is

Released in 2004 as a single from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut album Fever to Tell, 'Y Control' emerged from the fertile New York City indie rock underground that also produced The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, and Interpol. The band's raw amalgam of garage rock, post-punk, and art-school provocation found a visual counterpart in Jonze's horror-inflected short film aesthetic. The video became a lightning rod for debates…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of the post-punk revival era and auteur music video filmmaking. The video demonstrates the intersection of indie rock's transgressive ethos with cinematic horror grammar, and stands as one of the most critically discussed music videos of the early 2000s. Pitchfork listed the…

The director

Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969, Rockville, Maryland), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor, musician, and photographer. He began his career photographing BMX and skateboarding culture before transitioning into music…