The Latest Plague
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| “The Latest Plague” | |||||
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| Single by From First to Last from the album Heroine |
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| Released | 2006 | ||||
| Recorded | 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Post-hardcore Alternative Rock |
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| Length | 3:19 | ||||
| Label | Epitaph | ||||
| Producer | Ross Robinson | ||||
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"The Latest Plague" is the first single from From First to Last's second studio album Heroine. It is widely known as an anti-conformity song. The music video supports this theme, relying heavily on repetitive action and fixed, exaggerated expressions of happiness on the faces of non-band members.
The video opens on a cityscape of distorted buildings, cutting in to Travis Richter being laughed at by two older men at a gas station. Interspersed throughout most of the video are cuts to Sonny Moore in a room with red walls, being seen through a large magnifying glass, and scenes of Sonny and eventually the rest of the band exaggeratedly driving in a yellow car. The next scene begins with Matt Good walking into the kitchen to have breakfast in a house with an extremely low yellow ceiling. A woman, presumedly his mother, is shown with her her neck inclined completely because of the ceiling, smiling oblivously to the discomfiture of such a position. Footage of a young girl running into the room and screaming and smashing some sort of porcelain is repeated. A classroom with red walls is shown, where Derek Bloom sits in a desk at the back, out of the more orderly rows before him. All the occupants of the other desks are blonde, and wearing heather-gray vee-neck sweaters with a red shirt underneath. As the scene progresses, the occupants are shown randomly interchanging with each other. Derek throws an eraser at a girl in front of him, who turns and looks off into the middle distance with an exaggerated smile on her face. The scene returns to Matt in the kitchen, who knocks over a glass of milk on the table before him and in slow motion we see him and his chair tipping backwards. Travis suddenly runs into the room and hits a large red button on the wall that rewinds the scene and returns both the chair and the glass to upright positions. Travis tosses the breakfast table aside and the two of them are seen inside the yellow car. The blonde girl in the red classroom is shown with her eyes spinning rapidly, and Derek is pulled bodily from his desk by Matt and Travis. An overhead view of a building zooms in to show a padded room with red and black checked tile floor. Sonny Moore is lying on a bed in this room, and his eyes open, switching the scene to a view of his perspective. Several ghostly women in flowing white gowns slowly walk down the walls towards him, and the scene cuts to the rest of the band driving. The room is shown again, however instead of several women advancing down the walls, one old woman dressed in the same outfit moves quickly down the walls, screaming. Sonny is grabbed from the bed, and the scene cuts to band performing in a small black room with a red stage for the instrumental break. The vocals resume, and the video shows alternating shots of the distorted cityscape, the band performing, and the previously shown kitchen with all of the contents of its cupboards crashing to the floor. This continues until the song ends, abruptly cutting to black.
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