Saoirse Ronan stars in first music video for Talking Heads classic "Psycho Killer"

The first song by Talking Heads to really grab people's attention was "Psycho Killer," which appeared on the band's first album "Talking Heads: 77." That song didn't get a music video, though. At least, not until now. Yes, here in the year 2025, "Psycho Killer" got a brand-new music video, and it is, fittingly, quite ambitious.

Unsurprisingly, the band doesn't appear. Their interactions have been limited since they disbanded in 1991, mostly owing to David Byrne's, you know, David Byrne-iness. Instead, the band had to settle for their song getting a video starring an actress who got four Oscar nominations before turning 30. That would be Saoirse Ronan.

The video is quite ambitious, well-shot, well-edited, and even well-acted. That wasn't always the case even in the heyday of the music video, much less now. Ronan plays a woman having something of a mental breakdown seen through iterations of the same elements of her routine over the course of a few days. No killing, just a smudge of psycho. It's really successful, all things considered, and certainly befitting such a good song. Not just a good song, but a famed song by a famed band.

Credit on that front goes to Ronan, but also to the video's director Mike Mills. No, not the R.E.M. guy. He tapped into his history as a music video director, but he's also helmed movies like "Beginners," "20th Century Women," and "C'mon C'mon."

We certainly didn't expect to be praising a music video for a Talking Heads song from decades ago in 2025, much less one starring Lady Bird from "Lady Bird," but here we are.