One of the bands that has inspired the band that we are making a music video to is the band ‘Flaming Lips’. They are an American Rock band that was formed in Oklahoma in 1983. The band is known for their lush, multi-layered, psychedelic arrangements, spacey lyrics and bizarre song and album titles.

The band recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers they scored a hit in 1993 with 'She Don't Use Jelly'.

The Flaming Lips also contributed original songs to the soundtracks of several 2007 films: "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to be in Love" for Spider Man 3, "I Was Zapped by the Super Lucky Rainbow" for Good Luck Chuck, and "Love the World You Find" for Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporiums. The Flaming Lips also contributed two songs to the soundtrack of The Heart Break Kid: "Maybe I'm Not the One" and "Tale of the Horny Frog". In addition, "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" was featured during the opening credits of The Brothers Solomon. They also contributed the song "Spongebob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy" to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in 2004.

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Another band that has influenced them is an american alternative rock band that is no longer active because of the death of the lead singer Mark Linkous who commited suicide earlier this month called Sparklehorse.

Their first album 'Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot' was a huge college radio hit in 1995.

In 1996 they did a tour in Europe with Radiohead. In this tour he had a drug overdose and nearly passed away, and straight after it they realeased an album called 'Good morning Spider' in 1998 which some people conjectured that Linkous near death experience that has inspired the somber tune to the album, even though he states that most of the album had already been written.

In the year 2008, Sparklehorse recorded a cover of the song "Jack's Obsession", from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas for the official compilation album, Nightmare Revisited. In 2009, Sparklehorse teamed up with Danger Mouse and David Lynch in the project Dark night of the Soul

Joe Tangari describes Linkous' songs as defiantly surrealist, with references to smiling babies, organ music, birds, and celestial bodies; in fact, some of the lyrics are so surreal that it's hard to imagine they're even metaphors for anything." Many of these references are literary or from a variety of rock music sources.