“Surprise Surprise” by Billy Talent

"Surprise Surprise" was the second single Billy Talent pulled from Dead Silence, their fourth album, on Roadrunner in 2012, and the band shares the writing credit as a unit: four guys, one punk rock battering ram.

The video is where they really let loose. On July 21, 2012, the band told fans on Tumblr they'd spent the day shooting it, much of it at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario, and bassist Jonathan Gallant teased fighter planes, flying sharks, hipsters and a pig man. The finished clip, out that October, opens with Ben, Ian, Aaron and John being dismissed from a military conference room and heading off to their own fighter planes; the song only kicks in after the Pig Man squeals and the band arrives in Pig City, a town populated entirely by hipsters.

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