Speaking Heads Premiere First Ever Video For “Psycho Killer” That includes Saoirse Ronan
Mike Mills Directed the Video That Arrives because the Band Attain Their fiftieth Anniversary
Jun 06, 2025
Speaking Heads have launched the primary ever music video for his or her 1977 hit “Psycho Killer,” starring actress Saoirse Ronan (Little Ladies, Girl Fowl, Brooklyn). Mike Mills—who has helmed notable music movies by Air, Moby, and others, however has additionally directed such characteristic movies as twentieth Century Lady and Newcomers—directed the video. Its launch is timed to the band’s fiftieth anniversary. Try the brand new video beneath.
Speaking Heads collectively had this to say concerning the video in a press launch: “This video makes the tune higher—We LOVE what this video is NOT—it’s not literal, creepy, bloody, bodily violent or apparent.”
The video follows Ronan caught within the cyclical nature of workplace work life, and because the days go on, she begins to behave increasingly more deranged as she spirals right into a relentless routine. Just like the band says, its subtleties are what make it efficient. It provides you the concept this might occur to anybody.
Each Mills and Ronan commented on the privilege of working with Speaking Heads and one another.
“This album actually modified what was attainable in life for me,” says Mills, “so to get to play with the subversive, uncategorizable great thing about Speaking Heads, and to play with Saoirse who introduced a lot shock, energy, vulnerability and mischief to the celebration, it’s among the finest issues I ever bought to be part of—nonetheless can’t imagine it truly occurred.”
“To easily be talked about in the identical breath as Speaking Heads is palms down one of many coolest issues that has ever occurred to me, not to mention making a video with the singular Mike Mills to accompany one in every of their most iconic songs—’‘Psycho Killer,’” says Ronan. “I’ve grown up listening to their music, so this really is a childhood/teenage/lifelong dream come true. Mike, myself and the remainder of the inventive group had a lot enjoyable making this, and I can’t await Speaking Heads followers to see it!”
