The video for Menomena's "Rotten Hell," from the Oregon trio's latest album, "Friend and Foe," redeems the cliché of the school food fight. In a sly take on the song's lyrics, about violence and self-righteous conviction ("Well it's high time we stepped outside/ Drop the gloves and settle this like a man"), directors War & Julius assembled a group of uniformed schoolchildren and had them fling spaghetti at one another. Shot in slow motion, from initial provocation to full-fledged "Braveheart"-style battle charge, the video is beautiful, touching and weirdly hilarious.
-- Thomas Rogers
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