“You Are a Tourist” Comes Alive

Death Cab for Cutie’s highly ambitious single-take live shoot went off relatively smoothly last night—and the video itself turned out pretty great, too. Lead singer Ben Gibbard referenced Busby Berkeley in his interview with MTV News, but the legendary choreographer’s name has come to be associated with nearly any sort of complicated group dance sequence, so it was a delight to see direct references to the pop modernism of his Warner Brothers musicals. The press for the shoot makes menti...

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