Dinosaur Pile-Up debuted their cover of “It’s Tricky” from Run-D.M.C. with a video of the band caught in the middle of an alien invasion. The song was released as an Amazon Original. Singer Matt Bigland said taht they basically wanted a chance to make our own Beastie Boys/Busta Rhymes-esque video, but for a Run-D.M.C. song.
“Amazon Music kindly agreed to put a video into production we were like OK LET’S GOOOO!!
‘It’s Tricky’ is such a fun song, so we wanted to make sure the video wasn’t taking itself too seriously and that the end result would be a party. We also wanted to include us getting abducted by aliens (because why not), us dressed up AS THE ACTUAL ALIENS ABDUCTING OURSELVES because I’m into that ‘same person playing both roles’ thing, a scene that kind of reminded us of Foo Fighters’ ‘Monkey Wrench’ video (because it’s cool as hell) and as much ’90s sci-fi special effects as we were allowed to include because we were brought up on that shit.”
Bigland did say that it went a bit beyond what they expected.
“When we turned up to shoot on the day, and we found ourselves stood in a legit movie studio with seemingly countless people running around with 40foot green screens and back drops of the Grand Canyon and shit. I realized that it had all gotten horrendously out of hand, and that our little idea of ‘let’s make a fun/stupid Beastie Boys music video about us getting abducted by aliens’ had turned into a legit Busta Rhymes music video that was actually gonna look really really sick. I then instinctively ate a chimichanga that was way too hot for me, donned a news anchor suit with the actual universe printed on it, and went on to deliver a performance many critics are describing as ‘kind of ok in a Ted Danson kind of way.’ All in all, it was a huge success.”
