English rock band The Rolling Stones released an official music video for their song "Doom and Gloom," the lead single from their latest greatest hits compilation album, "GRRR!," which commemorates the band's 50th anniversary. It's tough to rationalize the existence of new The Rolling Stones music in 2012, and it's even tougher to figure out what the hell is going on in this new clip, but it's also hard not to applaud their return to the crunching, classic rock sound they helped pioneer.
Sounds like it was co-written by an Occupy Wall Street protester, despite its British pedigree, this hard-rocking, Louisiana bluesy number finds the band's lead vocalist Mick Jagger railing about various travails and was recorded in Paris and produced by Don Was. The French session marked the first time Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood had been in the studio together since completing "A Bigger Bang" seven years previously.
Even if you can't get on board with the music they're making now, you have to give The Rolling Stones a bit of a credit. While the average human hits a certain age and trades the guitar for the cane, Jagger and the boys continue to rock, defying time, death, and the inexorably creeping claws of dubstep. The uptempo grinder, "Doom and Gloom," for what it's worth, is a fun, straightforward rocker in the key of The Rolling Stones, nothing groundbreaking, but a satisfying dose of the band's longstanding formula, and continues Jagger's recent lyrical obsession with current events.
The Jonas Åkerlund-directed video is an old school button-pusher and stars "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" actress Noomi Rapace, who leads a classic rock 'n' roll lifestyle to reflect the song's lyrics. The video revolves around the seven deadly sins and captures the fever dreams of a gloomy Rapace lives through a hallucination in various stages of undress and adult situations. She's killing zombies, crashes planes, thrashes around in garbage naked, fighting off grabby businessmen, pan-handling and eating junk food until she passed out on a bean bag under a neon sign of The Rolling Stones' iconic lips and tongue logo.
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