The chorus picks up again, and the moshing continues this time with a quick shot of the Barbies in a compromising position. He holds the Barbie dolls up threateningly, as though he’s plotting to perform some sort of voodoo, and glares at the person across the table from him at the bowling alley.Īs the chorus softens for a moment, the boy from the car is shown smiling at the camera, before it slowly slips off, as though he sees something disturbing approaching. He dances the way one does while listening to the song. The chorus then picks up and Conan is shown thrashing about and yelling in each of the previous locations. The lyric “yeah baby you should really run” is whispered as Conan holds two Barbie dolls, each looking strikingly like his love interests. Again, the video has threatening shots, such as the molded ceiling and Conan’s hand slipping away from their balled-up fists. He laughs along with their jokes but often looks away to the camera with an angry expression. Conan sits for pizza with both the boy and the girl, separately. The song continues and a bowling alley is introduced. Conan peeks through shelves, holds up a box of Wheat Flakes, and stares into the camera through a mirror – all while the chorus rages on, “’Cause I’ve gotten tired of the games that you play/When you tell me you love me then you throw me away/So cry me a river till you drown in the lake/ ‘Cause you may think you’re winning but checkmate.” The couple is shown outside of the store kissing in their car while Conan looks on from within his own car before looking away with rage, as though he’s piecing things together. A shot of a security camera and a wall of ropes are included, foreshadowing the threatening element of the video and song. The chorus begins and Conan follows the couple into a store. The video then cuts to Conan in his car, staring dead into the camera, mouthing, “I’m gonna ruin your life” while dragging his fingers across his throat to signify a threat. He sings in the red hallway and sits on the floor of the home while playing with lamp – switching it on from dark to light. Image via the “Checkmate” music videoĬonan begins to sing as different shots are displayed to establish the early 2000s world of nostalgia within the music video: a girl running to get in a car, Conan playing with his Wheat Flake cereal in the previous bedroom, Conan singing in a red hallway and the boy from the car slyly looking into the camera over his shoulder.Ĭonan watches the couple get out of their car from within his own. As Conan lifts the tiny Discman headphones up to his ears, “Checkmate” begins to play. Conan is then seen in a 1990s bedroom watching a horror film and playing chess on what appears to be an iMac G3, circa 1998. Two voices are heard over the phone, offering excuses as to why they are canceling on him, and he grows visibly irked before the video cuts to the two main love interests (or victims, perhaps) of the video. The video opens with Conan sitting in front of a freeway listening to his phone, as voicemails are played.
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