Keepon robot keeps on boogying to Spoon :: Music News :: Articles

Unlike flying cars and transmogrifiers, robot backup dancers are imminent. We can’t know who will be the first to utilize them on a grand scale (probably not Madonna, since robots look straight up foolish in mesh), but the technology is here, my friends. Spoon knows it, and is more than happy to be an early adopter – the band’s new video for “Don’t You Evah” features a bobbing Japanese Keepon robot, playing off an earlier clip of the Peepish, snowman-like toy-creature rocking out to “I Turn My Camera On.”

Anyone with a fear of robots (how is there not an official tern for this, yet there is an official term for fear of symmetry) be warned, it gets to be a pretty kickin' robot dance-off at the end.

The song is from Spoon's latest album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, released last month on Merge.

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