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Queens Singer Says 'Videos Suck,' Then Gets Behind Camera

Josh Homme co-directs band's performance clip for 'Little sister.'

Two weeks ago, when Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme spoke with MTV News about his band's new album, Lullabies to Paralyze,he was quick to take the media to task for reporting his Internet ramblings as gospel, rather than taking them with grain of salt as he intended.

"It's very interesting to me that when I print total bullsh-- on the [Queens] Web site, people quote it verbatim," he sighed. "It's really pretty funny."

So when a post detailing the filming of a video for "Little Sister," the first single off Lullabies, surfaced on QOTSA.com (including information that the band "had to get up super early, drink lots of coffee and prance around in front of the camera"), a few questions had to be raised -- chief among them, was this total bull?

A spokesperson for the band confirmed that it was, in fact, the honest-to-goodness truth. The Queens did shoot the clip over the weekend in Los Angeles, with Homme and Nathan "Karma" Cox (Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson) sharing directorial credits. The performance video is also said to feature "innovative lighting, camera angles and effects."

Homme had previously discussed his plans to move to the director's chair.

"I'm pretending to think about knowing how to pretend to direct the video," Homme said recently. "It's kind of a mishmash of images and ideas. Videos are interesting because they kind of suck. Like, you're wearing a duck suit on a mountaintop, and you're skiing. And somehow you've got to have the whole thing tie up at the end of the song."

They've also shot a video for "Someone's in the Wolf," thus keeping in line with the ideals that went into making Lullabies(see [article id="1496151"]"Queens Of The Stone Age Keep LP, Tour Shrouded In Mystery"[/article]) -- mainly, do things fast and do them cheap.

"This record got done in five weeks. We wanted the whole process to be fun. We wanted people to play whatever they wanted to play," Homme said. "We didn't want to get bogged down in the process, to move too slowly, because all that would do is piss people off."

Lullabies to Paralyze is due March 22, a week after the Queens kick off their North American tour in Austin, Texas.

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