With bonus political commentary at the end!
Fall Out Boy's latest video for "Uma Thurman" starts out with a fan, Sarah, winning a contest to be the band's personal assistant for a day—she goes paintballing with Pete Wentz, sings karaoke with Patrick Stump, fans a poolside Joe Trohman and more.
And then there's also this adorable scene with Sarah cheering up Stump:
Sprinkled throughout the video are a few cameos from familiar faces, including Action Bronson, Big Sean, Brendon Urie, Big Data and more. Sorry, Uma Thurman herself is not actually in the video.
On Fall Out Boy's official site, bassist Wentz previously stated that the band drew inspiration from Thurman's badass Kill Bill Beatrix Kiddo role when writing the song:
"This was a fun song to write. originally, when we came up with the idea, and there was this sample in it, which is a sample from The Munsters TV show, people kept saying 'Oh, cool, like Quentin Tarantino, cool' when we played it. We decided why don’t we kind of create this world around that?
To me, Uma Thurman and Winona Ryder, they were these women in pop culture who were quirky, but that made me only crush on them harder. and rather than going with the traditional Uma Thurman role, we thought a lot about Kill Bill and who her character was in that, and this kind of resilience and this violence, but there’s something that’s authentic about it (like a woman taking revenge or being empowered). so that’s what the chorus of the song’s about, and the verses are what you would do to try and capture this woman’s affection."
The video, while undoubtedly light-hearted and fun, ends on a definitive political note: Sarah's final task for the band? Drive a giant tank flanked with American flags over a white pick-up truck with the words "Article 1, Section 36.03" stamped on its side—which refers to the Alabama Constitution's ban on issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Watch below.
"Uma Thurman" is off Fall Out Boy's American Beauty/American Psycho out now via Island.