Black Francis, Pixies lead singer, strains, "With your feet on the air and your head on the ground," conjuring the absurd, whimsical imagery that is typical of his lyrical script. A YouTube search reveals that Where Is My Mind has inspired countless homemade music videos, and in this writer's humble opinion the most accurately reflective of the song's intent can be found in this amateurish but brilliantly fun clip embedded below.
The Pixies possess a collective cool that will never die. Their songs make you forget all the bad in the world, and feel the same warmth and excitement as an awakening, dumb, but carefree teenager. We can only hope that many future generations of musically inquisitive youth will also one day "try this trick, and spin it, yeah. The Pixies are one of those bands that manage to appeal to an extremely diverse cross section of society.
Referenced openly by contemporary acts such as Placebo and Nirvana , and featured in the soundtracks to groundbreaking films such as Fight Club , this Boston band formed in Massachusetts in The group disbanded for a time, before reuniting in With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself.
At first, the casual listener might not even recognize that one of the main musical themes in Malignant — which has enjoyed a mixed critical reception — is "Where is My Mind?
The lyrics aren't included, and the verse section repeats several times throughout the film as if it's a slasher's theme song instead of a single moment a la Fight Club. However, there's no denying that highly recognizable verse riff, which started off on a phantasmic guitar but morphed into an anxious synth in Malignant , accompanied by bassist and co-vocalist Kim Deal's ghostly wailing that sounds more like frightened howling in this particular version.
It's not just for cool kicks that Wan uses this tune, either. Although the song may initially seem random, it's a clever bit of foreshadowing of the big twist that's dependent on the viewer's knowledge of the track's cinematic history. Sure, on a surface level, "Where is My Mind? However, the driving synth cover is also a callback to the original song's Fight Club appearance, in which it's revealed that the anarchic Tyler Durden and the demure unnamed Narrator are the same person.
Likewise, in Malignant , Madison is unaware that Gabriel is an extension of herself that manifests when she becomes unconscious. Whereas the guitar-driven alt-rock original used in Fight Club was a perfect way to capture the disillusioned Gen X mentality trying to chaotically enter a new era of uncertainty the song was released in but is often associated with the nineties , Safari Riot's dramatic synth cover captures Malignant 's arguably intentionally campy, violent, seventies and eighties-tinged tone.
The double identity twist in Wan's film is a lot more tongue-in-cheek than David Fincher's look at the destructive id, but in both cases, "Where is My Mind?
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