Lance Armstrong and drugs: they go together like Laurel and Hardy or peanut butter and jelly. Which explains why even two years after admitting to a career’s worth of doping, the 43-year-old cyclist can’t quite keep away from the touchy subject.
This time around it’s an appearance in the new music video from Future User, the side project of Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford.
The tune, titled Mountain Lion, has Lance (an old cycling friend of Tim’s) providing a trash-talking spoken interlude. “We’ll jokingly leave each other voice messages like, “Dude, I’m gonna crush you the next time I see you. I’m gonna take you down,'”; Tim explains to Rolling Stone. “When it came time to make the video, I asked him to recreate the voicemail and he was totally cool with it.”;
Controversial? Not on its own. Mind you, the video features a skateboarder injecting himself with steroids, then eventually — and here’s the kicker — setting himself on fire with gasoline.
Tim says Mountain Lion is about society’s misplaced anger over performance-enhancing drugs. “The amount of attention given to PEDs is incredible,”; he explains, “especially when you consider the amount of drugs – recreational, illegal, and pharmaceutical – that America supports and profits from.”;
Want to see for yourself? The video’s below. And yes, it’s a tad NSFW.
