The White Stripes album, Icky Thump, released this weekend, is being promoted by the music video for the title single, showing Jack and Meg White travelling across the border into Mexico. The music video, filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, features the lyrics in Spanish subtitles.
Click on the image below to play the video in YouTube
Credits
The Icky Thump music video was directed by The Malloys (Emmett and Brendan Malloy) and Jack White via HSI Films, with producer John Hopgood, director of photography Giles Dunning, and editor Tim Wheeler. The Malloys recently moved from Black Dog Films to HSI.
Lyrics for Icky Thump
Yah-hee, icky thump
Who’d-a thunk?
Sittin’ drunk
On a wagon to Mexico
Her hair, what a chump
And my head
Got a bump
When I hit it on the radio
Red-head señorita
Lookin’ dead
Came to said,
“I need a bed” en español
So I gave a drink of water
I’m gonna sing around the collar
Well, I don’t need a microphone
[guitar solo]
[synthesizer solo]
Icky thump, with the lump
In my throat
Grab my coat
And now it’s reckon
I was ready to go
Yeah, I swam beside the hair
She had one white eye
One blank stare
Lookin’ up, lyin’ there
On a stand in her hair
Was a candy cane
Black rum, sugar cane
Dry eye, somethin’ strange!
