After releasing her new single, “Bad Liar,” at the end of May, Selena Gomez has debuted a highly anticipated music video, helmed by former Girls director Jesse Peretz. It has a distinct 70s style, perhaps an homage to the Talking Heads’ 1977 song “Psycho Killer,” which was sampled on the track (and given the stamp of approval by David Byrne himself). It’s a departure from Gomez’s past videos, which have typically stuck to a simple format with little to no narrative or characters besides herself.
“Bad Liar “ is the antithesis of these earlier videos, and it is also very, very confusing.Throughout the three-minute-and-57-second video, Gomez takes on the roles of four different characters and their accompanying wigs: a high-school student, a gym teacher, the student’s mother, and the principal or teacher of the high school (it isn’t clear) who is also maybe the student’s step-dad or biological father. The student keeps an eye on the maybe-principal, who continues to flirt with the gym teacher before we see him head home in a car driven by his presumed wife, the…
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