Yeah Yeah Yeahs Don't Play "Zero" On Late Night
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' new single had a week of high profile TV appearances: Jools Holland (4/7), SNL (4/11), and Letterman (4/14). The band switched things up for Jimmy Fallon last night, promoting dancefloor violence with the Gayfish-approved "Heads Will Roll." This meant David Pajo on bass for a change, and a younger, head-bopping studio audience. Karen's still a happy camper.
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Posted at 12:47 PM by Scott in Video
Tags: David Pajo | Jimmy Fallon | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I KEEP MISSing (oops) this stuff...i need to watch more late night tv i guess
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it looks like the audience gets younger as it gets higher,
there are some preteen girls hanging out up by the ceiling
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Perv.
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Do the mics Karen O uses on TV get some form of electronic blueballs? It's just not right the way she teases that thing
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Karen O is the best :)
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i think they came out of this sounding pretty solid, because i don't think that the yyys had late night talk show performances in mind when this song was created, but it still surprisingly worked, if not just barely. would've been great to see soft shock, hysteric, or skeletons though.
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wow, the crowd was loving it haha! i bet they appreciate a more into it crowd since they've been doing a lot of late night shows. plus KO looked like she was having a lot more fun :D yeah heads will roll wasn't extremely talk show performance friendly but it worked.
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It's good to see that song was played instead of Zero. That song is getting played on with all the remixes and what not.
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Totally called "Heads Will Roll". I think this was the best of all their tv spots for the new stuff so far.
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The YYY's are on TV more often than Law & Order reruns lately. And I like it.
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i think this my favorite tv performace that they've done this week
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old pasty male rock critics love to heap praise on this band, but the truth is the album is pretty shit.
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This is true, like the older stuff.
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Karen O's outfit on this one is a total winner!
Plea to Jimmy Fallon producers: please, don't put people behind the band. It's embarrassing to see them clapping along with some of what seemed to be fake enthusiasm.
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I agree 100% to this.. Most, if not all of the people around the band looked like they were being forced to be there. Some of them had a lost look and looked nervous which just made it hard for me to enjoy. Think about it... are true fans of the YYYs gonna be found on the taping of a late-night show? I bet most of them were either paid to be there or just tourists from the mid-west who had no idea who they were cheering on. Just saying.
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I consider myself a pretty big YYY's fan and I was there last night. It wasn't just random folks off the street. At least the folks behind the band.
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how'd they get that kid from rushmore to play drums
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My name is Brian Chase, not Jason Schwartzman. I am a much better drummer than him.
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Even though the people behind the band look stupid, they are actually fans of the band who sit on bleachers in the back of the studio audience during the show before being brought down to the stage during the band's performance. It's a seperate thing so fans get a chance to be close to the band which is a cool idea, even if its cheesy and awful on camera.
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the stills want their chord progression back. still in love song.
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Karen O is great and I have much love for YYY but no one's infallible...this song's a doodoo attempt to hop on the indie dance-rock wagion that left the station too long ago. I honestly think Karen's laughing at the end becasue it just occurred to her how ridiculous the song is...
Till your dead,
Uh I Guess
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2:09-2:16 = Max Weinberg.
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God this song just doesn't work well live....
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