"Off off off with your head/Dance til your dead"

"Heads Will Roll," Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2009): I think YYY's fan base sneer at this as desperate late career stab at commercial success; selling out their underground rock cred. But by far the best thing I know by them. Maybe they ought to have sold out sooner? Hard to think of a bigger gothic disco statement this century: "The men cry out the girls cry out. Oh no." Karen O as Ice Queen dominatrix. I'm not entirely sure of her intent when she asserts, "Off off off with your head" ("Free your mind and your ass will follow"?) but it sure does sound sexy and a little pushy scary the way she says it. Shivers of psychedelic bliss and raunchy guitar riffing elevate the chorus. Heads are still rolling.