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“Where the Goth Girls At?” is the striking third single from Queens of the Stone Age’s ninth studio album, Perfecth. The track pairs raw, minimalist riffs with an explosive chorus, amplified by rich string and horn arrangements. Drawing on inspiration and nostalgia from Josh Homme’s youth in a Palm Desert suburb, the song centers on themes of teenage love and the desire to impress others.
About the song, Homme says:
“Watching the goth girls working the counter at JCPenney and giving goth makeovers to the old ladies, that’s when I knew the only place I want to be is where the goth girls at. Teenage love, ain’t it grand?”
The video reunites the band with “Easy Street” video directors Christopher Gruse and Tony Wolski and features comedian Steve Agee, dancer/artist Scarlett Kapella, singer/actress Lou Lou Safran, Queens band members, and copious amounts of black ink. Against the backdrop of a deserted power plant, the goth girls command authority and self-assurance as they transform everyone they encounter into their ultimate form.
Produced by Homme and band member Michael Shuman, Perfecth was made in the spirit of Kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling its cracks with gold, which holds that what has been shattered is made more beautiful, not less, by the act of repair. It’s an album that could only have been made right now thanks to Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita, and Jon Theodore taking significant evolutionary steps as a collective and arriving at hard-won clarity; its nine songs map different forms of love: of family, friends, and others, both significant and insignificant. The loves that break you beyond survival and the loves that put you back together.
Birthed from sessions tracked everywhere from New Orleans to Los Angeles, the music is fearless and boundless, moody and menacing, gentle and strange. Here, Queens have moved a career’s worth of jagged pieces into alignment.
Homme comments:
“Every song sounds like it’s from a different world. And that’s on purpose, because it’s trying to stitch together all these emotions revolving around love, lust, foolishness, and the sort of wisdom that comes as a gift from all that.”
Queens of the Stone Age resumed their North American stadium tour with Foo Fighters on September 15th and also recently announced a fall headline run in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. They also announced a March 6th, 2027 show at Mexico City’s Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes with Interpol. More headline shows in the new year will be announced in the coming weeks.
Tour Dates:
09/24 – Louisville, KY, US – Bourbon & Beyond Festival
09/26 – Las Vegas, NV, US – Allegiant Stadium^
10/04 – Sacramento, CA, US – Aftershock Festival
10/24 – Reykjavík, IS – Laugardalshöll *SOLD OUT*
11/25 – Tokyo, JP – Zepp Haneda
11/26 – Nagoya, JP – Zepp Nagoya
11/28 – Osaka, JP – Zepp Namba
12/2 – Singapore – Star Theatre
12/8 – Adelaide, AU – The Drive*
12/11 – Hobart, AU – My State Bank Arena*
12/13 – Melbourne, AU – Rod Laver Arena*
12/15 – Sydney, AU – Qudos Bank Arena*
12/16 – Newcastle, AU – Newcastle Entertainment Center*
12/18 – Brisbane, AU – Brisbane Entertainment Center*
12/20 – Auckland, NZ – Spark Arena
^ w/ Foo Fighters
* w/ Primus, Tropical Fuck Storm
2027:
03/06 – Mexico City, MX – Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes (w/ Interpol)
Queens Of The Stone Age ‘Perfecth’ album artwork
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