A Deep Dive Into Deftones’ Video For Back To School (Mini Maggit)

Art comes to people in different ways. Some people are struck by inspiration out of nowhere in the kind of quasi-divine moment millions dream of; a lightning strike of creativity coming from the heavens. Others sweat blood in the hope of conjuring up a masterpiece, analysing and re-analysing every letter, second and syllable to try to hone it to perfection. And some people have an annoying note from their record label and end up creating magnificence out of spite, like Deftones absurdly, amazingly managed with Back To School (Mini Maggit), a re-working of another track done under duress in very little time and in a bad mood. Let’s jump right in, shall we? 0.01 This is Grant High School, also used as a location in Saliva’s video for Your Disease and Tantric’s video for Breakd...

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