The_stranglers_skin_deep_official_video (2025)

You can watch the video on the Official Stranglers YouTube Channel to see the specific scenes involving the paper. AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more

The video, released in 1984 to accompany the lead single from their album Aural Sculpture , features the band performing in a clinical, white environment while a man (the protagonist) is seen in various states of agitation. The newspaper serves as a prop to emphasize the song's themes of superficiality and the "thin" nature of modern life and media—suggesting that what we see on the surface (like news or skin) is often fragile and deceptive. the_stranglers_skin_deep_official_video

In the official music video for by The Stranglers , the "paper" refers to the newspaper that the protagonist is reading and eventually tears up or interacts with as part of the video's narrative. You can watch the video on the Official