Nick Lutsko's new video for "Sideshow" is a papier-mâché nightmare
You might know Nick Lutsko from his brilliant (and shockingly catchy) musical parodies of Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Fox News, and Pizzagate, but the Chattanooga-born songwriter and Super Deluxe veteran also has a deep catalog of original material. In fact, his ambitious new album Swords, is due out this October. Today, in advance of its release, The A.V. Club is stoked to debut both its lead single—the buoyant, genre-defying “Sideshow”—and the song’s mind-melting video.
“‘Sideshow’ came to me in pieces between 2016 and 2018. For the video, I wanted to explore the themes of willful ignorance and how disorienting it can be when surrounded by it,” Lutsko tells us. “This is the third music video I’ve done with director Justin Cipriani, but it’s by far the biggest scale. I’m really lucky to have my name attached to something that so many talented artists contributed to.”