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Popping culture: Soccer meets true love in Hot Chip video

By Simon Thibault • November 26, 2012 10:31 am EDT

English electro-pop wunderkinds Hot Chip understand how video works in the 21st century.

It’s no longer a tool to showcase the band or a promotional tool that is graded on “rotations” on music video channels. It’s about creating mouse clicks and “viral” interests.

I mean, these are the guys who once had a free floating head that shot lasers out of its eyes in a video where the actual band barely appeared.

The video for their latest single, “Don’t Deny Your Heart,” is a video game gone awry, with some man-on-man love, glittering dancers and video game logic.

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