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Wet Leg have dropped their self-directed video for “Mangetout,” which features Rhian Teasdale dancing in a giant wig and drenched in a red, blood-like substance. The single appears on their recent Moisturizer album.
The new clip follows Teasdale in a massive blonde-and-black wig that completely covers her face as she moves in slow motion through a cornfield, across the beach, and at a gas station — all while wearing tiny silver shorts and striking hypnotic poses.
“You think I’m pretty, you think I’m pretty cool/You wanna fuck me, I know most people do,” she sings in the second verse as she grooves in different locales. “Here, take this packet, you read it, it says, ‘Mangetout’/I gave you magic beans, I hope you’re gonna get out soon.”
More than halfway through the song’s video, Teasdale appears behind a plastic screen, pulling off the massive wig to reveal her face — and a body covered in what looks like blood. Whose blood? It’s unclear, but she moves with a mix of sensuality and unease, dancing both sexily and eerily in the red substance.
The band teased the video the day before it dropped with a close-up of Teasdale posing on top of a semi-truck staring into the camera like she is from the movie Smile. “Nice try,” the post is captioned.
In a review of the album, Rolling Stone called the track “a damn-near perfect dance-punk summer jam, all pulsing rhythm and brazen confidence and raging hormones.” Last month, the band performed at Rolling Stone’sGather No MossTourin Nashville, playing their biggest hits alongside Moisturizer favorites.
