Vampire Weekend And Steve Lacy Get Jonah Hill To Follow Them With A Camera In 'Sunflower' Video

Vampire Weekend have released a positively New Yorkean video for "Sunflower." The funky tune and its "Babadoos"'s and "Babada"'s has Jonah Hill directing the video adaptation and yes it holds continuous surprises from the moment it starts up until its sudden, humorous ending. It's something that you've got to be able to see to get the whole experience.


It's hard to put into words the brilliance in the video's subtle elegance. Hill approaches his director's seat for this one with the same attention to detail evident in his directorial debut mid90s; camera angles are plentiful and they're often the unexpected ones. The camera continuously zooms around Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig and the Internet's Steve Lacy - featured on the track – who are taking a leisurely stroll around NYC's Upper West Side. Because the two walk around absentmindedly singing the song's lyrics, the funky backdrop is at odds with their somewhat blank, befuddled faces.


They wander in and out of stores and settle at New York gourmet market Zabars and Upper West Side's Barney Greengrass and run into several surprising faces. Hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy makes a sudden appearance following the video starts, comedian Jerry Seinfeld shows up later and brings the funny by just sitting there. When he listens to a tv show pitch from a deli store worker at the very end of the visual, it's played for laughs.


Vampire Weekend's rather anticipated fourth studio album Father of the Bride comes out on May 3. For now, four of the album's songs have been released: "Harmony Hall" and "2021" in January and "Sunflower" and "Big Blue" earlier this month.


Check out the Jonah Hill-directed video up above.