{"id":973971,"date":"2019-12-10T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=924869"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:14:25","slug":"brockhampton-chill-with-an-alien-in-surreal-sugar-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/brockhampton-chill-with-an-alien-in-surreal-sugar-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Brockhampton Chill With an Alien in Surreal \u2018Sugar\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/brock.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brockhampton\/\">Brockhampton<\/a> are no strangers to weird music videos, but their new clip for \u201cSugar\u201d might be their most surreal one yet.<\/p>\n<p>Directed (as many of their videos are) by band leader Kevin Abstract, the short film opens with a couple having sex in a cartoonish bedroom, when they are suddenly visited by\u2026.an alien, who shoots the man in the head. And it only gets weirder and weirder from there.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a late contender for most memorable video for 2019, but \u201cSugar\u201d is up there. (And did we mention it premiered on Viacom\u2019s Times Square billboards? Imagine being a tourist and having to explain <em>this<\/em> to your kid during a Big Apple visit.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSugar\u201d appeared on Brockhampton\u2019s most recent album&nbsp;<em>Ginger<\/em>, released this past August. This year, the band has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brockhampton-sugar-fallon-903757\/\">appeared<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>The Tonight Show<\/em> and performed at Tyler, the Creator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tyler-the-creator-2019-camp-flog-gnaw-carnival-870660\/\">Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival<\/a> in Los Angeles. They\u2019re currently finishing up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brockhampton-slowthai-north-american-tour-876588\/\">their latest North American tour<\/a>&nbsp;with a final show on December 13th at the Hollywood Palladium.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brockhampton-sugar-video-924869\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brockhampton are no strangers to weird music videos, but their new clip for \u201cSugar\u201d might be their most surreal one yet. Directed (as many of their videos are) by band leader Kevin Abstract, the short film opens with a couple having sex in a cartoonish bedroom, when they are suddenly visited by\u2026.an alien, who shoots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:03:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}