Jay Henry’s Headfooter has crashed into the NYC underground dance scene, spinning out deliciously absurd beats that beg listeners to shake off the weight of self-seriousness. The delightful Boo Hoo, Headfooter’s latest single, bounces and twitches like a DIY disco thrown in the basement of a Bushwick loft, conjuring the playful irreverence of LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Talking Heads, and the sass-soaked grooves of Scissor Sisters. The track is an infectiously goofy ride, marked by a chorus silly enough to burrow deep into your memory, setting up permanent residency.
Director Dylan Mars Greenberg takes this cheeky spirit and pushes it gleefully further into the absurd with a music video steeped in low-fi charm. Watching Boo Hoo feels like discovering a grainy, late-night horror spoof airing at 3 AM on public access circa 1991, complete with jittery camera movements, surrealist twists, and joyously amateurish effects perfectly in line with Elvira and Svengoolie-hosted slasher fests.
“Boo Hoo started as a reaction to an argument with a friend—self-pity was a recurring theme, and it pissed me off enough to write a song about it,” says Henry. “But after finishing it, I realized I may as well have been yelling at myself. I brought it to Dylan for the visual and told her, ‘Do whatever you want—I trust you.’ She came back with a concept I loved, and we got to work.”
Greenberg crafted a gleeful fever dream of campy chaos…exactly the right amount of weird.
“Jay basically said they wanted to do a music video that utilized body horror and said I could go nuts,” she says. “So we got two of the best effects artists around, Beatrice Sniper and RJ Young, and shot something truly special and gross and weird, partially on Super 8 and partially on VHS, using authentic video mixer effects my friend Paul D Millar provided. We wanted it to be the real fake thing in an AI environment where everything is the fake real thing.”
Watch the video for Boo Hoo below:
Boo Hoo will find its home alongside formidable indie stalwarts Joanna Sternberg and Adam Green on the forthcoming compilation album, Weird Scene, adding to its kooky credentials and further cementing Headfooter as a playful provocateur of the underground.
Headfooter invites you to move: whether that’s shaking your hips to the thrum of synth lines, or helping lug furniture up the stairs of his new walk-up apartment. Just don’t ask for payment…the only compensation here is pure, unfiltered, dance-floor joy – and perhaps purchasing the single here.
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