Little did Billy Idol know, when he opened his 1982 career-maker, "White Wedding," with the lines, "Hey little sister, look what you've done," he was sending a message to future sister-band, Meg & Dia.
"Hey little sister, who's the one you want?" He sang. "Hey little sister, who's your superman?" Billy Idol himself is the obvious answer to that question, when asked of two '80s babies with a DJ dad. And when Idol follows up with, "There's nothin' pure in this world/ Look for something left in this world," it's obvious what Meg & Dia have to do: "Start again."
And that's what they did. Their brand-new video, "Black Wedding," is a loose adaptation of Billy Idol's vintage punk anthem, complete with screaming chorus, snarling lips and haunting gothic imagery. Like Idol, Meg & Dia's vision of the perfect wedding looks a whole lot more like a funeral (the wedding dresses are wooden boxes!) than anything you'd see on Bridezillas.
But the Aaron Platt (One Republic, Queens Of The Stone Age)-directed video takes the darkness further than Idol ever did. "Black Wedding" is a full-on weeping funeral march, with vultures hovering and ashes falling like snow. A major, major amazing creep-out. Very Tim Burton.
Watch "Black Wedding," the first single from Meg & Dia's upcoming album, Here, Here and Here, right... here? Go!