They had practiced the song for two days beforehand. ĭespite the fact that the band is only seen for a couple of seconds, the director got Tame Impala to mime the whole song. The video ends with an eagle coming to inspect the camera. The camera then comes crashing down back to Earth during the fuzz guitar solo section of the song. The balloon eventually exits the Earth's atmosphere and into space, where you can see the curvature of the Earth and some shots of the Sun. The whole video is the same shot of the camera filming down below on a bird's-eye view as it floats up into the sky. Parker starts the video by letting go of the camera attached to the weather balloon and letting it float away. The video was filmed with a camera attached to a weather balloon outside of Mildura in Victoria, Australia. The music video for "Lucidity" was directed by Robert Hales.
I'd stop, sit outside in the snow and try to think of lyrics." Music video įrames from the music video for "Lucidity", which shows its launching point, the height it reaches, the curvature of the Earth and the eagle inspecting the camera I hadn't done any vocals and I didn't have any lyrics I was literally losing my brain. The lyrics and vocals weren't recorded until the mixing stage of the album in December 2009, at Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studio in Cassadaga, New York, which Parker later recalled: "I was thinking, 'We're going to be mixing this song in the next six hours'. The instrumentals for "Lucidity" were recorded during the sessions for Innerspeaker in June to August 2009. The song then ends with fuzz pedal noise. The bridge fizzles out, then it switches back to the A major key, and a scorching fuzz guitar solo over the verse chords and rhythm comes in, with heavy unison bends and whammy bar vibrato. The bridge switches to the key of G major again and features the chords F ♯ major, G major, A major and B major played at a slower tempo. The chorus, connecting guitar lick, pre-chorus, chorus format comes in at this point and then a bridge occurs. The second verse is half the length of the first one, and a short guitar solo in the A major scale comes in on the words "float away".
After the chorus, it switches back to the key of A major and there is a short arpeggio from C major to D major chords to connect to the next verse. The chorus then comes in with a key change to G major, and a B major, Dmaj7, A major, G major barre chord progression.
The pre-chorus features a variation of the verse vocal melody played on a fuzz guitar in the A major scale four times, before the verse rhythm plays one more time. The verses feature heavily rhythmic strumming of the chords E7sus4add9 and E major. "Lucidity" was written by Kevin Parker in the key of A major in a 4/4 time signature.