SAN DIEGO — For their second Show Your Bones video, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs chose to show their audience.

"We had fans send in impersonations of us, and we just told them to dress the part and play whatever they had around the house," singer Karen O said of the band's new "Cheated Hearts" clip. "It's a showcase of fans and fanatics, but also a real tribute to the relationship between us and our fans."

The video features dozens of aficionados from Poland to Israel to Versailles, Kentucky, doing their best Yeah Yeah Yeahs impressions — with O being mimicked by a motley assortment of snarling, leaping devotees, including a few dudes in drag and runny eye makeup, some teens sporting torn fishnets and a handful of precocious little girls.

"This record has just been about including fans a bit more," O said of the group's follow-up to 2003's Fever to Tell (see "Are The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Anxious About Bones? No No No"). "We had a flag competition for the artwork of the record and pretty much every Yeah Yeahs flag that was sent in, we put in the booklet," she added, referring to the collection of fan-made art in the LP's liner notes. "And the video's just going along with that theme."

When questioned about the meaning of the seemingly relationship-themed song, O shrugged her shoulders and replied, "I'm always the last person to ask." She did, however, give a little background on the midtempo rocker that's punctuated by spastic bursts of energy.

"It's a really old song, actually, that we had written early on in the Yeah Yeahs' career, that we kind of put to death," she said. "It wasn't ready to be released and then we woke it up, and we've been rockin' it out pretty hard ever since."

"It's definitely one of my favorite Yeah Yeahs songs," drummer Brian Chase added. "I think it sums up a lot that's great about our band. Maybe since it does date back to the early days I see it as having that history there. And it's got a spirit that is just really rejuvenating and loving and kind of tender and all that, and has a really great feel."

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are currently touring in Europe, where they'll play the U.K.'s Reading and Leeds festivals before returning to the States in time for the Bay Area's Download Festival on September 30. The trio has already headlined two major U.S. fests this year: Coachella and San Diego Street Scene (see "Kanye Previews New Song; Lupe, MCR Are M.I.A. At Injury-Plagued Street Scene").

"I love [festivals] because we have the 50-foot screens to work with, so I don't have to run around so much," said O, who suffered a serious head injury three years ago while performing some of her patented high-voltage stage moves in Australia. "I can just stand still and everyone gets to see."

The YYYs have yet to pick a third single from Show Your Bones, but they expect to continue working the album well into 2007. "The great thing about this record is I think we are still discovering new possibilities for the songs and figuring it out," guitarist Nick Zinner said. "Just being onstage gives us the chance to open up a bit, so I feel like these songs are still at their early stage for me."

In addition to the Download gig, the band will be back on U.S. stages for 12 dates that begin September 28 in La Jolla, California, and wrap up October 16 in Nashville.