Napoleon Dynamite-themed music video for “Ur Mom” sees Wet Leg playing the role of a paranoid hallucination for Scotty, the overly opinionated frontman of Scotty and the Soft Boys.
Scotty tumbles in the grocery shop where Teasdale and bandmate Hester Chambers work after calling Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale to his show. He can’t seem to shake the presence of Teasdale and Chambers when he wakes up, as they appear everywhere including from his band rehearsals to the attic he lives in at his mother’s house.
“When I think about what you’ve become, I feel sorry for your mum,” Wet Leg jokes at the start of the single, which will be released on April 8th as part of the band’s self-titled debut album.
The song also delves into the notion of escaping a small town, which Teasdale and Chambers discussed a lot as kids on the Isle of Wight.
The accompanying video for “Ur Mum” is just as cunning, toying with perception until Scotty is driven insane by his own deception, waking up on the grocery store floor — but not before joining Wet Leg onstage for a long, cathartic scream.
