Video: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, "Bicycle"

By Casey Jarman

Smoking is not cool.

Driving rad cars, stealing and hitting shit with a baseball bat? That is cool. Smoking, though? Not cool. So we're in full support of all the parts of this new Unknown Mortal Orchestra video, which premiered on SPIN Magazine's site yesterday, wherein the vid's sexy protagonist—Liv Taylor is probably too old to keep playing the trouble-making rock video girl, so we're glad young model/actress Sarah Dumont is filling the role—is not sucking down a cancer stick.

Wait, what!? She litters in the video, you say? OH MY GOD! IT'S RIGHT THERE AT THE ONE-MINUTE MARK!

Littering and smoking in the same video? Unknown Mortal Orchestra, you have gone OVER THE LINE. Look away, kids. LOOK AWAY!


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Casey Jarman

Casey Jarman

Casey Jarman is a freelance editor and writer based in East Portland, Oregon. He has served as Music Editor at Willamette Week and Managing Editor at The Believer magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. He is currently working on his first book. It's about death.

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