POPSCREEN: Apostle of Hustle

The video for Canadian indie band Apostle of Hustle’s “Cheap Like Sebastien” raises some interesting questions. Who knew frontman Andrew Whiteman could dance? And doesn’t he kind of look like an ex-convict?

The answers don’t really matter. For those who are entertained by Buddhist monks and brief-wearing Neanderthals, for those amused by priests rocking out to strobe lights and Native Americans dancing with dead animals (may they rest in peace), for all those who simply wonder why Sebastien is so cheap: This is the video for you.

For all those who don’t fit those descriptions, I still suggest you at least take a look at this video and try to make some sense of its weirdness.

The video follows Whiteman as he takes an escorted tour throughout an office building. Or, at least I think it’s an office building—it could just as likely be a mental ward. Either way, he encounters a room filled with animals, a movie theater showing a screening of an erratic car crash, and a discotheque.

To top it all off, the video ends with Whiteman following a flock of flying birds and aiming a bow and arrow toward a road congested by traffic. Social critique? Maybe.

Whiteman might be asking some interesting questions, but it’s impossible to find any answers in this convoluted video.

—Andres A. Arguello