Miike Snow – My Trigger
2016 · Directed by Ninian Doff
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Best comments
1.“Can these two men just be in every music video? Every cold war is stopped with the power of hot love.”
More comments
- 2.“I kinda hope when aliens invade Earth, they find this video and think it's a historically accurate depiction of the end of the Cold War.”
- 3.“As someone who got a 5 on the AP US History exam, I can assure you this is a 100% accurate depiction of the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
The story
October 1962. The world spent thirteen days on the edge of nuclear war, and in this version the two men holding the buttons would rather be in a musical. Director Ninian Doff restaged the Cuban Missile Crisis with an actor playing John F. Kennedy and another playing Nikita Khrushchev, both sweating over whether to push the big one – and then Kennedy's daydreams spill over into full Busby Berkeley song-and-dance numbers, choreographed by Supple Nam.
It's a ridiculous premise played with a straight face, and it works because the real history was already absurd. Two men, a lot of fear, a lot of ego and a single button. Spoiler for both the video and the twentieth century: nobody pushes it.
My Trigger was the third single from iii, the 2016 album by Miike Snow – Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg plus American singer Andrew Wyatt. Pulse Films produced the video. Cold War stakes, 1930s Hollywood choreography, and a reminder that the people with their fingers on the button are only human.
