Fatboy Slim

Weapon of Choice is a 2000 electronic track by Fatboy Slim. "Weapon of Choice" features a prominent sample of Sly & the Family Stone's 1968 recording Into My Own Thing as well as The Chambers Brothers song All Strung Out Over You. Parliament/Funkadelic and Bootsy's Rubber Band bassist Bootsy Collins provided the lead vocals; it also contains background vocal samples that were also used in Don't Forget Your Teeth, the B-side to Right Here Right Now from the album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. The remix of the song featured on Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album The Greatest Hits - Why Try Harder peaked at #137 on the UK Singles Chart. Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune and the 1984 David Lynch adaptation are the likely inspirations for the lyrics "Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm." In the novel, Paul Atreides notes "We must walk without rhythm" to avoid notice by a giant sandworm as he and his mother cross the desert of the planet Arrakis; Lynch's Dune features Paul's line "If we walk without rhythm, we won't attract the worm" 82 minutes into the film. Music video The song is perhaps best known for its accompanying music video, directed by Spike Jonze and featuring actor Christopher Walken, who was trained as a dancer in musical theatre prior to his acting career, dancing and flying around in an empty hotel to the music. The video has been credited by the music press and mass media for bringing a whole new generation of fans to Walken's talents. The "Weapon of Choice" video won six MTV awards in 2001. As one of the video's MTV "Moonmen" was for Best Choreography, Walken became a Video Music Award winner. The clip was also cited as the best video of all time in April 2002, in a list of the top 100 videos of all time that was compiled from a music industry survey by VH1. The video was spoofed at the end of the episode "Life Slaver" of the animated cartoon 6teen.