TGIF: Great Song and Great Video

New Zealand band Fat Freddys Drop mix it up with deep sea life.

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Superbly done. The build up in the song with the nets and harvesting in the video was perfect, only to be visually topped by the devastation that follows. This needs to be on primetime tv, why aren't american bands this concerned?