Chris: I think that one song is a direction in itself. I don't think we'd ever go there full-time, it's something we always thought about doing. I think there are a few songs where we've touched on this in the past, maybe Time Is Running Out, the way the bassline and the drums work in the verse is touching on something a bit more dancey than just straight ahead rock. I think Supermassive Black Hole is the furthest we've pushed in that direction.

Chris: I think that's what it is - those kind of people have probably influenced the song. In that song in particular, instead of trying to shy away from the influences we've made them quite clear, I think that was the goal of the song. I think sometimes it's better to not be ashamed of what the influences are.

Chris: Yeah, I think that's the case with anything though really. We're never going to please everybody - there are probably loads of fans who'd be upset if we did more of the same. I think with this album it's difficult to pick a first single because the songs on this album are so different, there's nothing on there that represents the album as a whole. We've done things like Plug In Baby, Time Is Running out and Hysteria in the past that kind of sit in a similar area, and it just felt pointless to do that again really. We just thought it was important to show people a different side to the band.

Chris: There was a bit of a difference of opinion with the management over there. I think things just work very differently over in America, radio is probably a lot more important than it is over here. Obviously over here you have Radio 1 which covers the whole country but over there it's more of a case of getting played on radio in every state or even every city, and I guess they didn't want to take a risk. Over here we've never really been a singles band, we knew with Supermassive that we were taking a risk to some extent, but we can always release another single afterwards - it doesn't really work like that in America. In America, when your single's on the radio it's on there for six months, or something stupid like that. I think sometimes it's good to have different singles out in different places - it also lets people hear another song before the album comes out.

Chris: A woman called Floria Sigismondi - she did a White Stripes video and I think she worked with Marilyn Manson before. There was no deep theme or story to the video - with that song there isn't any particular meaning in the lyrics. We went along more with the imagery - we saw some pictures and clips of her videos in the past, and she has a very distinctive style so we went along with that. It's not particularly filmic, it's more about the imagery. It's a live performance video but it has that creepy edge to it, which we haven't really done before.