Watch: Bikinis, animals, Karen O in Flaming Lips' 'I Can Be a Frog'

A video seemingly made with MS Paint and your buddy's cute girlfriend

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2009 5:17 PM

Katie Hasty

Watch: Bikinis, animals, Karen O in Flaming Lips' 'I Can Be a Frog'

About two hours after I initially listened to "I Can Be a Frog" it's still in my head, like so many good children's songs.

And that's one of the better, more redeeming qualities of this new Flaming Lips track. I don't think it was intended to be a children's song, but it could have very well been hatched in a sandbox, bursting forth from a Fisher Price cassette player. Heck, it even features Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O, who has been making her mark recently producing music for a kids' movie (depending how you look at it).

Just to be clear though: this music video looks like it was made for about $5 and a pack of gum. The animation is actually very cute, and then there's somebody's pal in her bikini running around the same patch of backyard, pretending, smilingly, to be a variety of animals.

"I Can Be a Frog" will be featured on the Flaming Lips' forthcoming double-disc effort "Embryonic," due Oct. 13.

The Flaming Lips "I Can Be A Frog"