“Black Heart Inertia” by Incubus

"Black Heart Inertia" was one of two brand-new songs Incubus added to Monuments and Melodies, their 2009 compilation on Epic, and it came out as the band's twentieth single after first being streamed on their official site. The writing credit is split five ways: Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, Ben Kenney, Chris Kilmore and José Pasillas.

The video is a bit of self-mockery. Boyd plays a harried, headset-wearing assistant on a video set, late with the coffee and glared at by everyone, who hands a drink to a second Brandon Boyd, the star, who spits it out and can't go on. The director notices the resemblance, puts the assistant in front of the camera, and the whole set starts dancing. Things only go sideways when the director's apparent girlfriend gets a steamy kiss from Boyd and he storms in to break it up.

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