Music Videos
Director Brett Simon shot a video for "Sick, Sick, Sick" on April 25 in the Los Angeles area, featuring the band performing "at a dinner party audience of one", at "this kind of LoCal local remote homemade…church-castle…in East L.A.".
The video starts with images of food being prepared, as well as human fingers being rubbed with seasoning. A classy, beautiful woman in black is sitting alone at a huge dinner table piled high with food, enjoying her meal and watching the band perform. It's revealed that each member of the band is chained to the wall by the ankle. The cannabalistic woman rings the bell, the masked, gloved "chefs" collect a band-member by the chain and lead him away to be butchered, cooked, and served to her. This is largely symbolized with footage of the band playing in a red, oven-like environment or with their mouths stuffed with vegetables. The rest of the band play on while the woman consumes fingers and other body parts. Instead of getting full, the woman seems to get hungrier and more desperate as the song goes on, and by the time Josh Homme is the only one left, she is crawling on the table, stuffing food into her mouth with both hands. Homme watches this and kicks his ankle chain around. She finally looks him right in the eye and rings the bell for him to be cooked. He is led away and joins the rest of the band playing in the "oven" as the woman collapses on the table, spent but still eating.
Liam Lynch directed the official alternate video for the song. It was released on queensofthestoneage.de on May 30, and was made by Lynch at his expense (i.e. without being commissioned, outside of the label), but once it was finished the label picked it up and made it the official video for Germany. The video, which stars Lynch, Josh Homme, and Wendy Rae Fowler (in her fourth appearance in a Queens of the Stone Age video, among them "Burn the Witch") was shot at Lynch's house in front of a green screen, without any crew. Later, animation similar to the "Go with the Flow" video was added.
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