“You wanna fuck me, I know most people do,” Rhian Teasdale sings as she grooves in different locales
Wet Leg have dropped their self-directed video for “Mangetout,” which features Rhian Teasdale dancing in a giant wig and drenched in a red, blood-like substance. The single appears on their recent Moisturizer album.
The new clip follows Teasdale in a massive blonde-and-black wig that completely covers her face as she moves in slow motion through a cornfield, across the beach, and at a gas station — all while wearing tiny silver shorts and striking hypnotic poses.
“You think I’m pretty, you think I’m pretty cool/You wanna fuck me, I know most people do,” she sings in the second verse as she grooves in different locales. “Here, take this packet, you read it, it says, ‘Mangetout’/I gave you magic beans, I hope you’re gonna get out soon.”
More than halfway through the song’s video, Teasdale appears behind a plastic screen, pulling off the massive wig to reveal her face — and a body covered in what looks like blood. Whose blood? It’s unclear, but she moves with a mix of sensuality and unease, dancing both sexily and eerily in the red substance.
The band teased the video the day before it dropped with a close-up of Teasdale posing on top of a semi-truck staring into the camera like she is from the movie Smile. “Nice try,” the post is captioned.
In a review of the album, Rolling Stone called the track “a damn-near perfect dance-punk summer jam, all pulsing rhythm and brazen confidence and raging hormones.” Last month, the band performed at Rolling Stone’s Gather No Moss Tour in Nashville, playing their biggest hits alongside Moisturizer favorites.
