Perfume release the music video for “Cosmic Treat”. And the Cosmic Treat is not Space Funk. It’s guns.

So… That dramatic ass teaser trailer that Perfume released a few weeks ago? The one that had us thinking ‘Wait. Are we getting a film!?’. It was comprised of scenes from the “Cosmic Treat” music video.

As soon as I realised what Perfume had done, I burst out laughing.

We got Punk’d. We got Beyoncé’d. Mr. Mic is the visual, baby. Well played Perfume. Well played.

We can’t blame Perfume for fans jumping to conclusions. But Team Perfume knew exactly what they were doing, those pesky scoundrels. But shout-outs to them, because they really got us. And “Cosmic Treat” is a fun video, and one of the better music videos Perfume has released in a LONG while.

I was fully expecting the entire video for “Cosmic Treat” to just be Perfume performing the song on the Mr. Mic Show and NOTHING else. But we got Kashiyuka on a date, a-chan as a lesbian, Nocchi as a bad bitch with a grenade launcher, and Perfume killing people like Terminators.

It is a shame that after the amazing choreography we got for “Ima Ima Ima”, that the choreo for “Cosmic Treat” is a bit of a let down. Maybe I’ll feel differently about it when I see it in full, as there’s a lot of it that we didn’t get to see. I really wish Perfume were performing with white guns instead of microphones, but there’s no way Japanese networks would allow Perfume to perform with guns—which would make it all the more scandalous and controversial.