Then mermaids save us and it’s super beautiful,” he says. In, we jumped off a bridge to escape hoards of fans chasing us and descend into water. It was directed by Jack Nicholson of all people and starred the Monkees. “It referenced a weird psychedelic 1960s film called Head. I had a moment when I wasn’t angry at the person anymore and I missed her.” Although the song is about a relationship gone wrong, the original video that accompanied it was more playful and upbeat. “Then I had a moment of clarity - for lack of a better term - where I was just doing exactly what the lyrics said: I was just sitting in the sand and looking at the water and kind of reflecting. “I was going through a horrible break up when we were writing Morning View,” says Boyd, of the band’s 2001 album. He was like ‘Here’s what’s going to happen: We don’t have any money left so you guys are going to animate the video.’ And the rest is history!” “He said to me: ‘Aren’t you an artist? Don’t you draw?’ I was like ‘Yeah’…and said our drummer Jose is an amazing artist too. Originally, we were going to hire an experienced animator to do rotoscoping because it was really important to the video - but we ran out of money.” At this point, director Phil Harder had an important call to make. “We blew through the budget on flights and hotels and the renting of that space. I also had my shirt off in the video, which is ironic because of how cold it was,” he says, laughing. “When we arrived to where we were filming, it was negative 25 degrees Fahrenheit…the coldest day of the year. But the experience of making the clip was hectic.
The serene video for “Drive” features the members of Incubus playing in a sun-soaked wooden room as animated images of Boyd intermittently flash across the screen.
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