Video: Queens of the Stone Age: "Make It Wit Chu"
It's a desert party, and kids who grew up in the desert know what I'm talking about. On "Make It Wit Chu", the Palm Desert, Calif.-based Queens of the Stone Age take a break from the riff-heavy thrashing of fellow Era Vulgaris tunes like "Sick Sick Sick" or "3's & 7's". This one's a smoldering blues-rocker, with the cautiously soulful strut of Spoon and the lusty baritone of Morrison Hotel-era Jim Morrison. Give me Josh Homme's poetry any day, though: "Sometimes the same is different, but mostly it's the same."
Homme knows what he wants to do: First, drive through the gorgeous Joshua Tree National Park landscape while the second guitarist runs through sultry blues licks. Then, sing at the desert party while a young couple makes out. Finally, most importantly, as he tells us flat-out-- accompanied by an appealingly Bee Gees falsetto backing vocal-- Homme wants to, well, "Make It Wit Chu". Simple and effective, at least in a rock video. If you get invited to a desert party, and you're not Josh Homme, maybe keep the line to yourself.
[from Era Vulgaris, out now on Interscope]