Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts

What this video is

Released in 2006 at the apex of the NYC post-punk revival, 'Cheated Hearts' arrived as Yeah Yeah Yeahs' second album Show Your Bones cemented their transition from raw garage energy to more polished alternative rock. The video's crowdsourced construction — pulling 25 fan submissions from a global call for performance mimicry — placed it at a unique intersection of indie fan culture and the nascent participatory…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of mid-2000s indie rock and an early template for participatory music video production. The fan-collage format made explicit what the post-punk revival had always implied: that the music belonged as much to its audiences as its creators. Voted the 10th best song of 2006 by NME…

The director

Karen Lee Orzolek (b. November 22, 1978, Seoul, South Korea) is the lead vocalist of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a multi-hyphenate artist active as singer, songwriter, director, and composer. A central figure of the 2000s post-punk and garage rock revival, she has…