This single from American alternative rock band Jane's Addiction's fourth album The Great Escape Artist highlights the influence of Dave Sitek. The TV on the Radio multi-instrumentalist played bass and co-produced the record and in doing so helped the Los Angeles quartet embrace synths and other digital technology for the first time. "We are taking great risks and writing in ways that we have never written before," vocalist Perry Farrell told Spin magazine. "[The Great Escape Artist] is a really amazing piece of art, an amazing piece of music. It will make people say, 'This is strangely beautiful.'"
Farrell told Q magazine October 2011 he still keeps in touch with the Jane, who inspired the band's name. He said: "Every once in a while I get an email. She was just a gal I met when she was looking for a roommate. Her addiction was heroin."
Farrell explained in a behind the scenes clip for the video that the song is his take on the Big Bang theory. "The Big Bang was actually sexual intercourse, like cosmic sexual intercourse," he said.
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