Adult Swim’s new video for Oh See’s “Drowned Beast” seems like a scene out of Dragon Ball Z. The video premiered last night during Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block; today it can be viewed online. Directed by animator and director Dr. D Foothead, the video takes viewers through a story from another universe. A peaceful planet of subsistence farming aliens is visited by a strange UFO, kind of like when Frieza arrives to spar with Goku on the planet Namek.
John Dwyer told reporters, “I wrote this song mostly in the studio and it was, in my mind, about the insatiable hunger of mankind, but sort of bent in this weird fantastical way.”
The ‘drowned beast’ from the video expresses that insatiable hunger quite uninhibitedly. After visiting the peaceful planet and confounding its inhabitants, the drowned beast emerges and travels back into outer space, taking the natives with it. John Dwyer loves working with Dr. Foothead.
“I always love working with Dr. Foothead because his take is always coming from some other world, as is evident in this far out animation.”
The video and music take all the same twists and turns as they arrive at symbiosis. It’s great when musicians and animators can work it out like that. The song comes from Orc, Oh See’s acclaimed new album that came out earlier in the year. Watch the video below.
Photography Credit: Mauricio Alvarado
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